C.R.W.X. (animal and vegetable oils) tank cars, 1925-- Washington D.C. http://www.shorpy.com/node/4310?size=_original Scott Pitzer

Wow, Great Ed, Thanks so much! Prototype N Scale Models (TM) by George Hollwedel 310 Loma Verde St Buda, TX

George, The M-I box cars were the only Missouri Pacific subsidiary that did not receive "Route of the Eagles" slogans. The reason is that there were no passenger trains traveling on M-I trackage

Reading the latest TKM (thanks, guys!), I read a caption that stated the left door was sealed shut. This is not all that unusual, from what I read, but it suddenly struck me: why? What would be

In looking at Ted Culotta's great book I see shots of MP, I-GN and NOT&M cars repainted in the "Route of the Eagles" scheme. Does anyone have a shot of a Missouri-Illinois car repainted with the

I'm doing some research on the Dominion/Fowler patent boxcar, and have become aware of a little controversy - the width of the boards used to sheath the roofs of the cars when built. Having spent

http://www.shorpy.com/node/3331?size=_original Listed as 1943 with NYC SW1 diesel switcher and MDT reefer -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

The "Fowler" 36' steel-frame cars built for some Canadian roads had these as built. Lovely photo of this ACL car. Steve Lucas. that cars, but it's

According to Larry Goolsby (Lines South 4/89 pp 1,4-17), ACL 32587 belonged to class O-9 (ACL 29000-33999, blt 1906-7), and "many cars were converted to MofW camp and tool cars after removal from

Don Worthy wrote: It's a two-ended cut lever, later required on passenger cars, but seen on plenty of early 20th century freight cars. I wouldn't say it's that unusual for the era. Tony

Saw this on eBay and I really enjoyed the stockcar to drover

Hey Scott, that is a great shot. John, how bout the passenger type cut lever on the car!!! Was that typical for that series car?? I wonder what the small star signifies that's about the coupler? I was

Thanks for the link Scott--Wow! John John Golden Bloomington, IN

http://www.shorpy.com/node/4395?size=_original Scott Pitzer

www.westerfield.biz. more frequent basis than our mailings. If you would like to be on the list, let me know. - Al Westerfield Include me. harper-brown@... Thanks, Jared Harper

We now have the May 1925 ORER on DVD disk. See it on our web site www.westerfield.biz. We are generating an email list to send product announcements on a more frequent basis than our mailings. If

Ernie Valentine wrote: "A WP DS box, looks like USRA (or clone)." WP did not own any USRA DS boxcars. Your car was probably one of these: http://people.virginia.edu/~ggg9y/boxcar.html Thanks to

This may have been already covered. If so my apologies. I just joined list.   The is a collection of  railroad and streetcar photos by Lyle Oberwise at the Milwaukee, WI Amtrak Depot (the wall by

James Dick wrote: I saw a note in the SP files at CSRM about drovers leaving a mess of trash in the cabooses they used. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

In a case like the above I always take note of who said what and adjust my credibility ratings accordingly. It makes my modeling life simpler every time the "BS" filter gets tuned a little finer. Ken