The 40' plug door car has early Dreadnaught ends. Obviously rebuilt from a single door 10 panel '37AAR boxcar. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Ah, but it was in the ORPTE. My 1943 issue shows GTW 11490-11499 as all-steel 50'6" (IL) BX cars. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

Bob, GTW 11498 is part of a 15 car group numbered 11484-11499. According to the notes, box express cars in this series had small doors on each end for passage from one car to another, except:  cars

GTW 576631 was in the 576000-576999 series, all of which were in auto engine service (note the stenciling which reads "specially equipped for automobile engine loading"). There were 50 cars in

Can anyone provide information about these three GTW boxcars? The 50-ft former automobile car appears to be in express service at the time of the photo. The steel underframe car also appears to have

In 1941 the M&StL railroad made a weed killing outfit that put oil on the ground, it had covers over the rails. I personally have seen this done on the Milwaukee railroad in Iowa. It sure was a mess

Hello, people: Several squibs have appeared in the last week or two on this subject, which I have read with interest. To answer Bruce Smith's query, the upcoming Intermountain later R-30 series being

Schuyler- Thanks a bunch. You just cost me / saved me a bunch of money!! Charlie Vlk Sharing this information: Indiana University Press is having a sale, 2,500 titles at up to 80% off. Orders

Tim, The correct answer is yes, this is the car the Tichy model is trying to represent. I think the Tichy model is very, very close. The big problem with the Tichy representation is that the

Tim,  The short answer is yes and yes. The end sills should be flat, not a channel and the u/f  shouldn't be as deep as the Tichy.  See MM May 1984    Tom Christensen

Jerry, Is the two different sizes in the word CENTRAL intentional? Dennis

I completed the artwork changing the lettering to Gothic other than road name, reporting marks and number and am now taking orders. See: http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/IC_l.jpg Jerry

Particular road? The Pullman Library might have the drawings for the Standard Steel Car Co hopper car in that era. Contact me off-line. Thanks! Ted Anderson

I'm working on a USRA triple hopper project. Anyone that might have information / photos of car interiors or good photos of hopper doors / underside of car photos, please contact me off the list.

Guy Wilber wrote: Thank you, Guy. Specifics always appreciated. But this is yet another case where "standard" requirements were obviously ignored by a number of railroads, since one can find

I have a diagram of AAR Standard Lettering and Marking of Cars with a revised date of 1938 that shows 9" reporting marks for cars that could accomodate it. Flat cars were shown as 7" letters. Jerry

Reporting Marks were to be 9" figures and car numbers 7" as first adopted by the MCBA in 1916 as "Standard" practice. The ARA's 1926 revisions of the "Standards" (as per note 1) specified that 7"

I know very little about ACL flatcars. I just noticed the sides were different. Jim [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Jim Am I missing something? Both have 10 stake pockets, fishbelly u/f, short sides... Perhaps I should have asked "Is this the car Tichy is -trying- to represent"? (Since the Tichy flat car kit was

Not the same. See the Tichy car here. http://tichytraingroup.com/images/parts/4040_1_b.gif <http://tichytraingroup.com/images/parts/4040_1_b.gif>Jim Hayes Portland