Ralston, not Richmond. David Thompson

Thanks to Jack and Rich for the ORER work. And to Al for reminding me to look at Kline & Culotta. I usually go there first but since the subject is a NKP family relation I bypassed that source.

I have a Monon car with the reporting marks C.I.D. Not sure if they are correct report marks. Know MON & C.I.L., but this is new one to me

Jace, the Wine Railway Equipment Co. developed such a car, incorporating their cast steel hopper car door frames and interior braces, and a photo of the sample car, WRAX 100, as well as scale

I came across an ICC filing on behalf of Western Fruit Express by Great Northern that was decided by the ICC on May 7, 1934. I have one question about the rebuilding of truss rod refrigerator cars

I recently picked up three Max gray [O scale] freight cars. One is supposed to be the B&O offset quad, but the one I have has probably incorrect hoppers, with the doors facing each other in each pair

In looking through old annual reports of the Polymer Corporation, Ltd. of Sarnia, Ontario, I found a photo of a UTLX tank car, #25100, wearing Polymer Corp.'s "Polysar" logo. I've scanned it and

There is another photo of a W&LE hopper # 77415-C in the John Corns book The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway published by TLC. The caption says it was rebuilt in the 1930s from longitudinal hoppers to

Steve (the source of this mystery), Jack and Rich- Fellow N Scalers and AC&Y/ABB fans Ed Hunter and Scott Weiler laid this one on me from Steve. I hadn't done the ORER work yet; thanks Jack. Rich,

Courtesy of Bruce Morden from Carpenteria, CA, we have this link to a LIFE Magazine photo showing PFE reefers being loaded in

Sorry, my remarks about the truck design were more in jest so as not to get in trouble with the "era police" on the site. I didn't ask any specific questions about the truck design. They were molded

Guy, the tank cars AC&F built new for UTL were all of UTL design. However, UTL acquired the tank car fleets of many private owners, especially during the depression years in the early 1930s, and

Thanks to those that replied on the Swift reefer question, as a further query on that, can anyone suggest a Floquil mix for the post'38 yellow sides and what the ends and roof color should be? I have

I wonder if the photographers were thinking, "If I do a really good job with these freight cars, maybe they'll send me to shoot Rita Hayworth next?" Scott Pitzer Magazine. q=freight+car+source:life>

Don, I have in my collection a GATC builder's photo of M&StL 70051, built 6-40 by GATC. The car matches the IM model with the same hatch arrangement. Even the locking bar arrangement is essentially

Steve and Charlie, from Westerfield's Oct. 1919 ORER CD, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. listing dated Sept. 1919: Cars marked G.T.&R.Co. or G.T.R.X. Hopper 101-200 IL 40'2 IW 9'6 IH 7'1 OL 42' EW 10'1

There's a photo of WLE 77241 in Kline and Culotta, "The Postwar Freight Car Fleet", p 143. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Charlie, I'm probably at the root of this mystery. I've made two visits to the U of Akron Archives in the last year. I'm searching for info to support an article I'm developing about the end user

In 1953 the M&StL had two groups of 1958 cu. ft. covered hoppers. One group of 50 cars numbered 70101 - 70199 and the other group of 10 cars numbered 70051 - 70069. Both car number groups were odd

Jack, I have a photo of a Santa Fe Ga-K class car built in 1902 which might be something similar to the YV cars. It's attached. Richard Hendrickson ----------