CN operated at least one four-wheel scale test car in the last year or two with Carmer operating levers attached to the couplers and a stem-winder handbrake. I had the "good fortune" to handle it in

I have heard this several times about the "Classic Freight Cars" books. Have any of the "indignant cognoscenti" prepared errata sheets and posted/published them so as to get the right information out

The front cover of the 1957 GN Annual Report features a string of vermillion, single door box cars... the car nearest to the camera is GN 5724, from series 5500-5999 built that year by the St Cloud

Jerry Michels wrote: Very true, Jerry, and the exact reason why, after two books for Yanosey, I declined to do any more. He told me he did not WANT history in the captions, "just keep them

Al Kresse wrote: Many of the Steinheimer negatives at the DeGolyer had gotten stuck into the wrong sleeves, though the sleeves had original photographer's notes. An obvious case of good info

Dave, I can add to the information Andy Sperandeo posted that some of these cars were still in service in the early 1950s, though mostly for non-regulatory commodities by that time, but that all

Wagontop M-53 could use a Creco door. A search of the prior listings show a lot of discussion on Creco's but no clear date for this car with this door. Can anyone help? These are NOT Creco doors.

More serious is the notion that libraries or archives can pitch the original photographers notes on old negative sleeves, or hand typed notes for groups of negatives . . . or Rr PR departments notes

Folks, There are other public libraries who have gotten government grants to have photographer's negative sleeve notes transcribed into captions.  One recent caption we noted on a Columbus, Ohio,

Likewise, most US Army Signal Corps photos from WW II have captions printed on the back, written by the photographer who took the picture. Quite a few have the wrong location, wrong unit, or wrong

Two weeks ago I was researching the M&StL at the Mercantile Library in St. Louis, accessing the Barriger Collection. While going through John Barriger's photo album of the M&StL photos, I noticed more

What Jerry says here is all too true. One reason is the later comment about "underpaid," which is really true. I know of one author whose compensation for the fifth book was one quarter of the

Also note, the NP cars I listed were first builds, not rebuilds. There was one additional "mongrel" group of leased NP boxcars, series 37000-37899, that were ca. 1962 rebuilds of various early

Scott: Here are more specific dates and related information for the NP boxcar series of the 40ft plug+sliding door configuration: NP 8000-8499 1958 NP RY Brainerd Shops NP 3000-3339 1959-60

Dave; try http://www.utlx.com/download/TankCarHistory.ppt <http://www.utlx.com/download/TankCarHistory.ppt> It gives a bit of info on the Van Dyke design with some photos. Adrian

Dennis The large UNION PACIFIC gothic lettering began in 1956. The BC-50-8's received new roofs, ZU eave, diagonal panel. There's a fine builder photo of UP 110052 in the UPCG Vol. 1. Also the UP

Hi Dave, It was called the Van Dyke tank car, and it was Union Tank Car's Type V. Car UTLX 15847, a 1912 Van Dyke of nominal 6,000-gallon capacity was stenciled for a light weight of 31,300 pounds.

I'm trying to find the answer to a couple of questions on the frameless tank cars used by UTLX near the start of the 20th century and google isn't helping. What is the proper name for this

Yes, That's what the pix in our files show. That's why we lettered our model as a BC-50-*8*, and we have a scan of a photo showing it with the large UNION PACIFIC on two lines, with the 'Be Specific'

Grain had something to do with it, but also this was the time when railroads stopped buying 40 foot cars and opted for 50 foot cars instead. Many railroads bought combination door 50 foot cars from