Thank you, Keith! I bought a print of #4500 from you about 15 years ago. It inspired the MDC conversion. BTW, I have your photo catalog from then. Are the listings still current? If so, can you send

Eric when did the BR&P disappear and into which railroad did it get absorbed by? Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

And the TM cars are 40-ft while all the BR&P prototypes were 36-ft cars. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

I would second the suggestion the gons contain forms for concrete work. Look like larger versions of the forms I remember using when pouring foundation walls. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

I never realized that they came in such dazzling colors: https://www.broadway-limited.com/6000gallontankcar.aspx Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Gary Laakso wrote: "The bottom sill sure has the ear marks of a Train Miniature boxcar." ...except the one on BR&P 4500 is inset, and the one on the Train-Miniature DS boxcar protrudes beyond the

The one just beyond that has a different type of curved roof: concave. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Those could very well literally be 'forms' for concrete work, either for a retaining wall (dike or levee) or a large formed concrete structure. Could have been something being constructed at the time

Photo: String Of Boxcars (Undated - 1900?) A photo from the Portal To Texas History website: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1029453/m1/1/?q=depot Photo can be enlarged quite a

The curved rood boxcar next to the #3 on the print, very likely is Northern Pacific. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Photo: NYC Boxcar 177331 (1950) A photo from the Portal To Texas History website: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1242734/m1/1/?q=warehouse Photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Built

Photo: Brick Factory With Boxcars (Undated) A photo from the Portal To Texas History website: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25058/m1/1/?q=factory Photo can be enlarged quite a

Photo: Gondolas With "Large Forms" Loads (1947) A photo from the Portal To Texas History website: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11869/m1/1/?q=freight%20yard Photo can be enlarged

The bottom sill sure has the ear marks of a Train Minatare boxcar. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

The BR&P boxcar photos I have are the builder's photos from 1909 and 1914. I don't have any in-service 1920's photos. But here are the two from the SSCC photographer in Butler, PA.

Mine is the "Time-Out Tray".

Thank you for the good word! I believe the thee-rod plug door was the original. Lots more moving parts on it perhaps led to a simpler design replacement door. Maybe done when the car was painted in

My understanding at some point they replaced the door with a more conventional plug door. Is the proto photo the original or replacement door? Fantastic model Ed! Scott McDonald

No historical context here, but on the Missouri Pacific (and subsequently the Union Pacific) the car scheduling system used "Yard Block" (YBLK) as a term since the 1960's. The classification of a

Dave Nelson <Lake_Muskoka@...> asked: John H. Armstrong in The Railroad What it Is, What It Does, 3rd Ed. Simmons-Boardman, 1990, page 169, says, "The next step in