You lie! :-) (Sorry, just a little political humor...) Anyway, Western Union equipment was definitely still in use in the late 1950's if not later. I have excellent 1958 and 1959 photos of WUTX 3558

The museum is located in Snoqualmie, WA about 30 miles east of Seattle. Here is what we started with: http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t116/railsnw/np28417a.jpg Richard Wilkens

Anyone notice the angle cock bracket? http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t116/railsnw/NP28417angleview.jpg Looks just like the new Hi-Tech brass version. Dennis

Thanks, Dennis. That's interesting information. Richard Hendrickson

Looks great to me.  Now, are you going to weather it?  ( . . . . actually, do you have a before shot again? ) But now seriously, where is this museum located?  We might get out to Oregon and

The 55 gallon drums of dull coat and grime are on the way. It's a pain to get a photo of the monad without a bunch of glare. Richard Wilkens

Too clean, Richard. You guys need to attend a weathering clinic :-) Very nice work. Dennis

I suspect a bit later than that. We had some discussion about this on the SooLineHistory list a couple years ago, and one of the posters said his Dad remembered WU linemen working on the Soo Line when

Compliments and kudos to the Museum people for these restorations. Wonderful. ....Mike Del Vecchio (having helped restore a few freight cars in his day)

Phil, Actually, these letters imply the Box Express effort was larger than we thought and the post usage for glass material shipping was larger also.  Goog find! Wonder if the 10 experimental

The Northwest Railway Museum is proud to present our latest restoration, Northern Pacific single sheathed war emergency boxcar NP 28417. The restoration consisted of repair and replacement of wood

Jay, I checked in my sizable collection of ORERS and Western Union is not listed in any 1930s or 1920s issue, back as far as 1919. Such cars did exist in the 1920s, as a couple were shown in the

Hi, I'm looking for roster info on WUTC work and inspection cars. I searched 2 ORER's (1943 & 1953) but there was no roster information. Could someone kindly point me to where I may find info

The D&RGW NG had some as well. You might check the Denver Public Library for photos. eric

Guys I have thrown together a quick webpage about the upcoming meet this April 22-24 at Marion Union Station at Marion, OH. http://home.rr.com/salguy There will be updates and changes as

Well...we just had a spam message delivered to the STMFC. The message from Allen Stanley contained an address to a site rather far removed from steam era frt cars...or any other frt cars. My guess is

Jerry, I'm slow in responding because I just got back from a trip to San Diego (partly to visit my wife's family but mostly for the 1952 operating session on the Tehachapi Pass layout, which is

Carl,   There are several NYC auto box cars available for this era. Without a road number, photo or dimensional info, would be hard to match it up. If you can find out any more info, I can try to go

Hi all, This is my first contact with this list. I have an April 1969 ORER that lists the Crandic series 320- 324 gons, but no builders date information. I hope this is of some use for your

Matt, Ed is being polite, but he's dead right. The first use of the Silver Meteor slogan was on the B-7 single door "turtleback" cars, delivered in May 1941. All previous used Route of the Orange