Back in the 40/50s Gallo made a blue grape wine called TOKAY. You could buy it for 50 cents a bottle. It tasted very bad but the Winos bought it by the case. We nicked named it I. W..Tokay. That

Bud, In O scale, the San Juan Car Company makes a Mather kit. If a person on this list has assembled such a car, he might be willing for a price to photocopy the plans which could be scaled down to

Amen to that Tony. My mistake in saying single sheathed when I meant to say double sheathed, same or similar t&g siding as used on reefers. My point was that the Life photos show grooves that

Group, Does anyone have any photos or information that pertain to GARX 5300-5599 and URTX 72000-72299? A total of 8 cars (4 from each series) are listed on two wheel report consists in March 1959 on

Ben, I've been trying to find scale plans for the Mather patent Ball line cars in either 1100 or 1200 series. I'd like to build at least one in S scale. Bud Rindfleisch

Tony, Yes, perhaps "volumes" would be the term, the point being that until around 1950 Railway Age paged all the issues from January to June as a unit, and then started a new numbering for July

Bud Rindfleisch wrote: Most T&G siding had a modest V-groove at each edge, so there SHOULD be a groove on such sheathing. OTOH, most single-sheathed cars did not use such siding; but in at least

Tony Thompson wrote: "[Walter Kiesel] was chair of the ARA Car Committee for awhile in the middle 1920s. You only have to read the otherwise-spare minutes of the ARA Transactions to recognize the

Ed - NYC is a big place with lots of drinkers. :) - Al Westerfield

Al Kresse wrote: He was chair of the ARA Car Committee for awhile in the middle 1920s. You only have to read the otherwise-spare minutes of the ARA Transactions to recognize the arrogance of the

John Hile wrote: There are both Calif. Dispatch (as Richard mentioned) and North American tank cars without insulation, which were photographed in wine service. Bob's Photo is one place you can

Rich Burg wrote: Railway Age had two volumes per year for decades, Rich. They were just that, volumes, not six-month blocks. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

Bud mentioned: > [Snip] Isn't the difference that reefers used T&G boards and S.S. box cars didn't....? Jack Burgess www.yosemitevalleyrr.com

I haven't seen it mentioned yet but the Life magazine site, although with many abbreviated freight car photos, the ability to click to enlarge shows many nice, clear chalk markings from various roads.

Bud Rindfleisch asked: "Now those M&W Ball line cars......that's where I need more help (plans?)" Which ones - the Mather cars or their secondhand rebuilt boxcars? Ben Hom

Brian, Thank you also for the BCK roof info......I couldn't have asked you Saturday, the question wasn't asked of me until Monday! Now those M&W Ball line cars......that's where I need more help

Ed, Thanks for the info. I knew I would get accurate information on this list. Bud Rindfleisch

I have a couple of photos of non-insulated tank cars in wine service that were owned by the California Despatch Line of San Francisco (reporting marks CDLX). Bear in mind that the wine that was

Rich, What do you know about Penny's Kiesel and his involvement in PRR and USRA/ARA/AAR FC design? WE have his patent for an offset-side end side-panel trasition design and he is mention as being

Rich, If it is NOT too much of a task. Yes we would like to have a sentence of two associated with that early hi capy gon with twin claimshell hoppers. It would be a lot of hand-shoveling if you