N&W 90-ton battleship gon, class GK, GKa, or GL. The Buckeye truck was not original, so this is likely a test application. David Thompson

Well, it's a non-revenue car, so I'll bet what we're seeing here is a company stores car stopped at a station, unloading company coal to the local depot (those are giant chunks of coal; why pay to

Claus, The photo is crystal clear in a time before autofocus and big flood lamps, so it is clearly a "frozen moment" likely posed photo, but maybe only temporarily stopped. It does look like the dray

Not about the car in the subject line . . . Were the records of Buckeye (and Columbus Steel Castings) preserved at all? I don’t remember what I was after – might have been for a locomotive

The stencil had me scratching my head, too, but I think it is for Buckeye since Bethlehem didn't merge Cambria/Midvale until 1922. That one is a Hocking Valley

Love the photo . . . and the cars, too! Schuyler

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 12:40 PM, Claus Schlund \(HGM\) wrote: In my mind, there are way more questions than there are answers... (1) What is the freight car? It appears to have a small window.

Makes sense to me. I can see a number 10 on the car, also. From what I can see in Eric Neubauer’s builder’s listings. Pressed Steel car built six 55 ton cars (perhaps hoppers?) in 1920.

That looks like a rider car as there are grabs at the door and steps below. Whatever else is going on here is questionable. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Hi List Members, I stumbled upon an interesting view which captures a steam era freight car of some sort, a coal conveyor, and two people... https://www.grpmcollections.org/Detail/objects/172757

Steve: Ahh. Now I get it it. Indeed, the history of the Johnstown facility indicates that it was Cambria when this car was built, then briefly Midvale before the Bethlehem acquisition in 1923. So

Actually this is a 327' 6" inner length car, 40,000 cpy. series 41000 - 41716 (even only) 297 car in 1905 Howard

According to the car builder’s listing at Mid Continent Railway Museum https://midcontinent.org/rollingstock/list/bldr_list_C.htm#C the Bethlehem Steel facility at Johnstown doesn’t begin

Hi Bob and List Members, This site also has a nice image of a three-axle truck under what I will guess is a steel gon...

Hi List Members, Here is a second photo showing a similar (same?) gondola... https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/memory/id/67537 Claus Schlund From: Claus

Hello again. I had to go through my files, but I knew I had taken a photo about ten to fifteen years ago, when I was selling scrap at a nearby facility that is on the access road next to the steel

Hi Bob and List Members, I’ve not done a rivet-by-rivet comparison, but it looks like it is identical to and built to the PRR class GS design – see link below.

Steve, I'm not sure I understand your question. BSC was Bethlehem Steel in Johnstown, PA. I haven't seen their name on a lot of cars, but they did build ~5 of the X29 lots in the 1924-30 time frame,

I am trying to figure out who built this car. It says 1912 and BSC Co and Johnstown on its side. Pressed Steel built cars for Buckeye, but only in about 1920 and later cars were built by Ralston.

The amazing thing was that Columbus Steel Castings (the successor to Buckeye) was the largest steel foundry under one roof in North America in the last couple of decades. Not something you normally