Kingan used KRLX reporting marks in 1920 on cars built by ACF. In later years they leased reefers from National Car Company NX and General American GARX, with those reporting marks. Photos of the P/L

I am not very knowledgeable about the variations on these cars. I do think that for the price, Rapido should do the "easy-peasy" mods. The fascia strip appears to be such a thing. Ed Edward Sutorik

Just about all meat packers used leased reefers from the 30s on. Those reefers could have the meat packers reporting marks or could have the reporting marks of the owner. Union Refrigeration, General

don't forget the NWP? mel perry

C'mon Dave, I don't think that many B&M modelers, especially of your caliber, will have that much difficulty adding the fascis strip. Others will simply ignore its lack of presence. But let's all

Most likely for paper and pulp as you mention. The "Aroma of Tacoma" mainly is no longer evident due to the major cessation of the mills. Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula has one too and

This list is dominated by 1950’s era cars. Tables turned for we modelers of earlier eras usually removing AB brakes, finding appreciation roofs etc. Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone --

Dave, You could always do one in GN. Their fleet was one of the longest lived in more or less original condition -- some cars were still in revenue service into the 1960s, with AB brakes, of course.

They were ALL "as-built" until some railroads started kit-bashing them. Our turn now. Chuck Peck

Not sure why I would care about an as-built car Don when I am modeling 1955. Also regarding the TH&B cars, after they were acquired from the parent New York Central they were rebuilt. This included

Todd mentioned earlier about possibly a yardmaster snagging a single UCR car, but all four of those cars look very similar to me. And I'd say that three of them are clearly lettered Utah Coal

Garth, Thank you for your informative post. It has helped me identify additional potential traffic for my 1944 Richmond CA based layout. From a pair of SP industry maps (1928 & 48), we can identify

Except that it's really, really easy to over-represent the USRA cars if you are trying to build a prototypically accurate fleet. In 1935 (my year of interest), only one in ~16 B&M box cars was a

This sounds like a good reason to pick up a number of undec cars, re-detail them along with painting and lettering. At least the starting point is good. Cheers & Happy Modeling, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Also of note is the URTX meat reefer marked for Dubuque Packing Company. What color is that, orange? Very different from the adjacent Northern Refrigerator to the right or the Milwaukee branded car

I can only speak top the B&M's USRA DS cars. I have the builder's photo from 1919 -- no fascia. I have a photo with a 1934 reweigh date and pretty fresh paint. It has a fascia board. Tempting to

What's interesting to me is that most of the logs in the log pond appear to be similar in size to the loads in these gons. Perhaps the mill was using them for lumber, but maybe for chips or pulp for

Ed Sutorik wrote: The (strong) recommendation for the "X" suffix was in about 1915. Certainly in my 1923 ORER issue there are a huge number of "…X" reporting marks. I don't know that 1926 was

My January 1938 ORER shows the KCS had two TW vinegar cars, numbers 23531 and 23674. Perhaps this is one of those cars. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

In the first American Smelting photo, I see a gon with sheet metal trucks. I am very surprised. Regarding the "pickle tank", there ARE tank cars listed for KCS in the January 1939 ORER. Of