Given the congregation of MOW ditchers on flats shown, the date (1936) and the significant amount of weed growth that appears around/ under the flat cars, these look like they fit a recent thread

Here is an interesting CB&Q flat car load compliments of the Shorpy web site. An original FSA photo from 1937: http://www.shorpy.com/node/6110?size=_original Bruce R. Brantner, SR.

Joe - Many thanks! I have visited that museum back in the early 1990's but did not see the ATSF reefer. Did measure parts of the SP C-9 2-8-0, however. Guess I'll have to plan a return trip. A.T.

Check out the May 2004 RMC, Ted Cullotta had a very good catalog of HO freight car trucks and who had at that time the best models of them. This was a side bar to his Essential Freight Cars

Dave, Here are a couple of sources of photos... the first link is to a Jeff Wilson article available as a PDF from the Model Railroader site that has an overview of freight car trucks and some

Dave: If you don't mind a reply from me instead of Richard, try going to the Walthers website, advanced search, HO, trucks and couplers. There you will find lots of trucks, some precisely labelled and

I believe it is also included on Oddballs set 270 for a Missouri Pacific car. Jerry Glow

Try the below site. It gives a lot of info. _http://www.trains.com/mrr/objects/pdf/mr_pi_5-06_freightcartrucks.pdf_ (http://www.trains.com/mrr/objects/pdf/mr_pi_5-06_freightcartrucks.pdf)

One exists at the Arizona Railway Museum in Chandler Arizona. A former Rr-W rebuilt to Rr-23.  www.azrymuseum.org   Joe Jacques 

Gentlemen, I'm finishing one of the F&C HO scale IC single sheathed box cars, and I could use some help on the color. Does anyone have any suggestions? Brown? Oxide? Red? A mix? Color of underframe

CDS dry transfers had them .Armand Premo

Not being that knowledgeable with what they look like it would help in locating additional photos and the trucks in H.O scale. Regards Dave S. > > >

In 1973 the XM-33's of the CBQ #s21154-21235-21378-22371-22810 were assigned to hide service---jim young

The only decals I've found are Champ BRH-31 that have this stencil. Anyone found any other examples? Tim O'Connor

CGW stenciled their hide service cars, painted them black and noted them as hide sevice in the April 1960 ORER. There is no such notation in the 1953 ORER. Sorry, but I don't have any intermediate

Thanks Armand. That's about what I thought, but thought I'd ask. Clark Propst

The roads with which I am most familiar simply stenciled the cars,"For Hide Service Only" or similar wording.They did not distinguish them in any way in OERs.They continued to be listed with the rest

I read all the notes for 1950 for MP listings (I know they had some) and did not find any reference to the fact. Others may come up with a way. Jerry Glow

Not having really given the phosphor bronze wire a fair trial yet, I will now. Thanks for the advice, Steve Lucas.

Do any of the ORER experts know if there's a way to find cars that were in hide service? Too bad the pages aren't scratch and sniff. Clark Propst Mason City Iowa