Hello Clark Names sometimes arose before places looked on the map the way they do today. When Ontario entered Canada it was a much smaller province, basically just the area immediately north of the

Here is an interesting image I found while looking through the online images provided by Wichita State University Libraries'

Wow! Lots of good information! Thank you all for your time and information. I appreciate it very much. The Landmesser hot box list for 48-49-50 includes 68 PRR cars and 57 NYC cars including 6

Just so we're clear,I don't get it either. But there are many things in my life I don't always understand, and I think we should leave it at that. Pierre Oliver

Gene Green asked: Would the paint scheme on the rebuilt car have survived from 1934 rebuilding all the way to scrapping? The picture shows pretty standard lettering with the PMcK&Y reporting marks

wrote: Pierre Oliver > Gee, I guess I got a geography lesson? Here I always thought we traveled to NW Ontario. It's just northern? There's no west? You sire you aren't from Quebec? He he In North

Frank is correct in calling that region Southwestern Ontario. The region you are referring to is generally called Northern Ontario. May not make much sense, but that's the way it is. From Southwestern

Gene Green wrote: "Looking at a Youngstown Steel Door Co. ad on the rear cover of the June 17, 1937 issue of Railway Age shows PMcK&Y USRA single-sheathed box car number S-81290 before and after

I am not near my library, so I am winging this from memory. InterMountain was provided photos and documention for B&O class P-31c bulkhead flat cars. Further, I believe the B&O class P-25d bulkhead

Prototype B&O W-7's had Duryea underframes, so the Accurail triple bay offset side hopper is not quite right. I did not help with that one. Nor the 1956 Athearn quad

Gene Green wrote: Gene, rebuilding these cars normally used modern sheet steel sides, as in the case of these PMcK&Y cars and many others. The new sides did not need diagonal truss members but

Gene, Martin Lofton's article about USRA rebuilds in Sept 1989 RMC shows a series of pictures for a Rock Island rebuild, they did not use the truss members only the frame/floor and the ends.

Looking at a Youngstown Steel Door Co. ad on the rear cover of the June 17, 1937 issue of Railway Age shows PMcK&Y USRA single-sheathed box car number S-81290 before and after rebuilding. If it

Does anyone make a Duryea underframe conversion kit? Or is the best thing to fake it by extending the coupler pockets? Rich Orr

Frank, you most mean South Eastern Ontario? SW has only the CN along the 11 highway and the CP along the 17 highway...or are the roads the other way around? The only two E/W roads anyway. One is along

Eric Neubauer's book _Philadelphia & Reading Freight Cars: 1900 to 1914_ has drawings and photos of a similar Pressed Steel box car built in 1901 for the Reading, as well as many other contemporary

Some shots on E-bay of interest tonight: - COSX 823 and partial view of an automobile boxcar - auction 200246244737 and 200265616565 - some machines for tracking freight cars - what's the story?

Westerfield is working on a kit for a HO scale model of the 50 ton Summers ore car - used by DSS&A, Soo, DM&N, D&IR (later DM&IR). Cyril Durrenberger

Curt, Lot 8362, 52500-52749 (52000-52499 were twin PS-3s built in 1953). Regards, Ed Hawkins

Anyone know the Pullman Standard Job # for the CRR PS-3 3 bay hoppers; 52000 series, built 1958? Curt Fortenberry