It's a stretch to call MILW 16800 a box car :-) It looks like 16800 was a box car BODY dropped onto a 53 foot flat car. Pretty much the weirdest rebuild I've

GN had at least one boxcar with "grab iron extensions": GN 29001 40', 20' opening Also having grab iron extensions were: SAL 20200-20209 40', 20' opening And now for something a little

Stock Cars NP 81745 & CBQ 56315 circa 1926 NP 81745 blt. ?? as NP 90145, in 1923 under AFE 5118-23 was renumbered to NP 81745 and upgraded with 70 ton trucks, in 1933 under AFE 5024-33 it was

A brief reminder that later this month the annual Toronto Railway Prototype Modellers Meet will be held on Saturday, March 21st from 8:30 am to 4:00pm at Humber College in Toronto. Complete

I "found" NYC 1904. It was an 0-6-0T Dummy. Built as NYC&HR 10 in September of 1914. Retired December 1932. Ed Edward Sutorik

>The 14000 to 14499 were built in 1957 at St Cloud and did not have the billboard letters originally. Out of the 20-something photos I have of these cars, only one (14241) has the large initials. I

Well, they were red. I knew they were red. :-) Dennis

CB&Q 41891 attached -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

Soo, definitely. I don't think any GN cars had this feature. Tim O' -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

Ed, The NYC had several enclosed Shay locomotives for use on their West Side Freight Line (pulling freight cars, mandatory content). They have been written about a number of times in the railfan

I cannot think of a more pleasant exercise than being atop a boxcar in frigid winter weather cranking a "movie machine". Wow. The fun!. That said. I saw a NYC locomotive numbered 1904, in the street

GN combo door XMs had 6 ft plug doors, therefore lacked extended grabs. However, CB&Q combo door cars in class XM-2 had extended grabs to accomodate 8 ft plug doors. John Monrad

Several comments make it sound like this was an NP only phenomena. Actually, any of the 40' combo door cars that had a six foot main door with eight foot auxiliary doors had this problem. Soo

Hello Claus, many thanks for sharing! Interesting video - and indeed fascinating being with the real sound! Also the scene in Manhattan with the officer managing the traffic - just great! Many

Of all the photos I have been able to download from the internet, I found SP&S 11242 Date V-1-58 Straight SP&S and 11287 Date v-5-58 straight SP&S. These are the earliest photos I have found with the

The Intermountain 10-0 IH 12 panel box car is correct for the SP&S 40 foot car (built 1949) -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

The 14000 to 14499 were built in 1957 at St Cloud and did not have the billboard letters originally. In some cases the name to the right of the door was repainted with

Sorry if I missed the reply to Bob’s queston…the Plug Door in the fully open position would interfere with the normal inboard mounting location of the grab irons…so they overlap the ends to

The large lettering with periods after the initials went both diagonal and straight line. The smaller lettering also made it onto some of the 50' cars too (SP&S 14241 50' DD boxcar in June 1967 Jim

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