Michael, The following information is based on a limited sample of actual paint samples that are available for viewing in AC&F bills of materials for cars built from 1931 through 1952. These

Tim, 1957 is well beyond the period I know or care about, and Gene's question was about the UP's various versions of the 1937 AAR standard design, classes B-50-19 through B-50-27. All of those

Bill, that's a pretty broad range of time, railroads and cars! Over that time frame the nature of freight cars changed significantly. For example, if its is 1925, the second most common boxcar from

Pierre: Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, and sending me a starting point. I'll see if  I can locate the cyclopedia and any other available information. Thank you again, Michael

Sure Tony. As soon as you send me a photo of a painted floor and underframe for every class of UP box car from 1936 to 1960, including repainted cars, I'll be happy to oblige... Seems to me the burden

Michael, A good place to start to get the answers you're looking for is Railway Prototype Cyclopedia #3. In that issue is a great article on boxcar painting which includes an excellent paint chart for

I'm wrapping up an article on 40' Steel Box Cars on the New Haven Railroad for the Associations' quarterly magazine and I've got my eyes crossed and information muddled on subject sideframes and could

I've seen pix of FGE cars going thru a washer at Alexandria. Who would be responsible for cleaning out cars (reefers and ventilated boxes) going back south from Chicago.  Gene Huddleston mentioned

GENTLEMAN:Can a Frisco Modeler PLEASE e mail me off list,I have a question about the Kansas City,Osceola & Southern "the High Line''seems you have to be a member of the SIG to ask a question.... Hope

can anyone point me to some pictures on railcars to help with my modeling of the 1920-1946? We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men & women stand ready in the night to visit violence on

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim, could you direct us to the photo(s) of unpainted floors (or underframes)? I'd be interested. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest

Richard ahem. photo evidence exists to the contrary. unless of course you are referring strictly to the 1937 cars. like gene, i don't have any photos of freshly (re)painted 1937 cars. i sent him a

Tony, Again thanks for the information its always appreciated and I actually put it to use! Maybe a photo when I finish this area will take a while I am ripping everything up and starting again (Just

Neville Rossiter wrote: The same area as the p. 428 photo is shown in an aerial view on p. 261. PFE generally combined light repairs with cleaning, as I mentioned, so the PFE views in Chapter

Tony. I have that book (2nd edition) and found the photos under Car Cleaning in the index I was originally looking for the word Cleaning or Car washing in the index, give me a break I'm an Aussie.

Contrary to Tim's speculation, the UP painted box car underframes and floors, as well as trucks and brake equipment, the same oxide red as the rest of the car, both on new cars and on

Good day group: I am relatively new to the group, and have read with much interest all posts and replies. I have learned quite a bit just from monitoring the groups' emails. I now have a

I find just as instructive the colour shift on the GTW auto boxcar in the third photo, which would have likely been painted within the same time frame as the "shadow keystone" PRR car--circa 1956.

Neville Rossiter wrote: There are several photos in the book I helped write, about Pacific Fruit Express. Reefer interiors were sloped to drain into the bunkers, which then had

Neville- Here are some notes on Cleaning Refrigerator Cars from the Santa Fe. These are from the booklet, "Rules Governing The Cleaning, Fumigation and Sanitation of Passenger, Work and Freight