I am doing some research on the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern in Minnesota. At the site listed below there is a photo of  MN&S express refrigerator  911 taken in 1940.  I do not find this

I am getting ready to have a PRR X-31 painted and need to know the color of the underframe and the trucks. According to the Sunshine Models documentation it states the trucks were black, but I have

David Snook wrote: "I am trying to find more information on Midland Valley open hoppers in the series 9000-9024. Have plans of these cars ever been published (the AAR design, not specifically the MV

Tim O'Connor wrote: Not an error, Tim. The column showing "No. of car" reflects the original NH class. Note two columns to the right that car numbers were 510475-510479; also note in Table 13-1,

Peter Ness wrote: Not exactly. The SP leased 50 of the cars for a few months, then bought 5 and returned the rest. I don't know why they chose to buy so few as 5. But photos and data are in my SP

Armand Premo writes: "I suspect that most members of this list are interested in prototype operation.The movement of trains with freight and passenger cars are rigidly controlled by schedules.Several

Hello Armand, In the first place, I think your questions are off-topic for this list, and there's another Yahoo list, the Ry-ops-industrialSIG list, that deals directly with these matters. But

The Southern Pacific bought 150 79'6" Clejan flat cars in 1957, and added 100 more 85' Clejan flats in 1959. SP acquired only 5 of the New Haven cars in 1961 (Note: error in Tony's SP Freight Cars

I suspect that most members of this list are interested in prototype operation.The movement of trains with freight and passenger cars are rigidly controlled by schedules.Several questions regarding

Hey guys! New member, here...professional model builder, Mississippi Central (! 905-1967) fan. I have a request to build an HO copy of the business car of the Fruit Growers Express company. The

I have some HO scale locomotives and a variety of railroad books listed on eBay that end tomorrow night http://stores.ebay.com/Espee-F-5 Remember to check back later this week because I'll be

Hi Folks Ed Hawkins has kindly given me all the information needed to complete our knowledge of the DS/SS/Steel split for MoPac box and auto cars from 1938 to

David - These cars in AC&F lot #2605 also included (50) cars in Mo-Ill series #6200-6249. I have no concrete information on the MV cars; however, the N&W also had VERY SIMILAR triple composite

David, The 25 MV composite emergency 70-ton hopper cars were identical to the 1,200 cars built for MoPac. There exists a series of original AC&F drawings for the cars at the Museum of Transportation

Hi Peter, You can feel a little less guilty about discussing the Clejan TOFC's. The cars were originally designed and fabricated in 1955 (cars 18000-18001) for the New Haven RR. The production cars

Hello- I am trying to find more information on Midland Valley open hoppers in the series 9000-9024. Built by AC&F lot 2655 in 2-44, 2580cu.ft. Doing a search of older posts I found the

Hi Folks Can anyone identify the sheathing (single sheathed, double sheathed, steel sheathed, other) of the following ATSF box and auto car series? Build or re-build dates would also be

pp Thanks, Larry! Here is an update for the Reading, with your data

Form Eric Neubauer, Reading freight Cars, 1900 to 1914, Chapter 9, pp 72-77 All three series below are "Reading standard box cars" which are double sheathed cars with a fishbelly steel center

Just creeping into the timescales of the group - with one photograph to my knowledge of these cars being hauled by steam too - we are just about to release N Scale Kits of the Clejan spine cars.