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Re: Photo: Western Maryland Hopper 20049 With Coal Load

Bob Chaparro wrote: Nice shot of the classic channel-rib design. Tony Thompson tony@...

By Tony Thompson · #175672 ·

Re: Photo: ATSF Gondola 75473 Looking A Little Tired

Andy Jackson Santa Fe Springs CA

By Andy Jackson · #175671 ·

Re: Non-standard height 1923 ARA Steel boxcars

Ten of the HPT&D cars went to West India Fruit. they were built with Duryea underframes. By about the mid-fifties—maybe later—the remaining HPT&D cars received Silver and Maroon or Purple and

By Bill Welch · #175670 ·

Match and Strawboard Making

Mr. Barber also has a connection with another relatively “behind the scenes” industry - strawboard production (one of my areas of interest). Mr. Barber’s formed the Portage Strawboard in 1882 -

By Matt Goodman · #175669 · Edited

Photo: ATSF Gondola 75473 Looking A Little Tired

Photo: ATSF Gondola 75473 Looking A Little Tired An undated photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc612705/?q=railroad As some of you may know,

By Bob Chaparro · #175668 ·

Re: Non-standard height 1923 ARA Steel boxcars

Eric, Thanks. Roger Huber Deer Creek Locomotive Works On Sunday, July 12, 2020, 03:10:29 PM CDT, Eric Hansmann <eric@...> wrote:

By Roger Huber <trainpainter@...> · #175667 ·

Re: Non-standard height 1923 ARA Steel boxcars

Here’s an image from the Steam Era Freight Cars website. http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/gallery/boxauto/hptd424main.html Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

By Eric Hansmann · #175666 ·

Re: Non-standard height 1923 ARA Steel boxcars

There is a picture in Speedwich's "Steam Era Freight Cars Reference Manual Volume One: Box and Automobile Cars". Don Burn

By Don Burn · #175665 ·

Re: Non-standard height 1923 ARA Steel boxcars

Any pictures of those HPT&D cars? oldline1

By Roger Huber <trainpainter@...> · #175664 ·

Non-standard height 1923 ARA Steel boxcars

It depends on how far from "1923 ARA" you want to go. If you're counting the X28, then the N&W BP, BS, and BT classes would also count. Closer to home, Erie, PM, and NKP had auto boxes based on the

By David · #175663 ·

Re: Non-standard height 1923 ARA Steel boxcars

Bill, Are these different from the USRA Steel boxcars the Reading had that were 9' 3" with plate ends? I checked Tim's mention of CNJ, and definitely found they had 200 cars that were 1923 ARA

By Don Burn · #175662 ·

Re: Non-standard height 1923 ARA Steel boxcars

Indeed the CNJ cars and the Reading has cars with plate ends and similar roofs to PRR, I think. No idea about the underframe however. Bill Welch

By Bill Welch · #175661 ·

Re: Non-standard height 1923 ARA Steel boxcars

Didn't the CNJ have some taller automobile cars (similar to X28)? On 7/12/2020 10:55 AM, Don Burn wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

By Tim O'Connor · #175660 ·

Non-standard height 1923 ARA Steel boxcars

I was wondering besides the 5000 PRR X28, the 2000 B&O M-27 and M-27A, and the 25 High Point, Thomasville & Denton cars, were there any other 1923 ARA Steel boxcars with heights different from 8'

By Don Burn · #175659 ·

Re: Maximum Capacity Gondolas

Hi Bob and List Members, The PRR gon that is the topic of the second paragraph is the lone PRR class G23 car - see link below:

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #175658 ·

Re: Coupler Mounting Screws

We used to have a lot of surplus places here in Michigan. They mostly started as military surplus dealers after WWII, then switched to industrial surplus. They had lots of hardware, electronics,

By Daniel A. Mitchell · #175657 ·

Re: Coupler Mounting Screws

If one wants blackened, non-magnetic button head screws, McMaster Carr has them: https://www.mcmaster.com/97763a314 The link should get you on the right page and then search for the desired length

By Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> · #175656 ·

Re: About match-making (so to speak)

Nice shot of the sawdust burner as well as the loco. A lot of good details seen on the sawdust burner that will help me model one. Thanks for the unexpected detail! Doug Paasch

By Doug Paasch · #175655 ·

Re: End and Roof Color - WM #4001-4050 Series Boxcars #4001-4050

Bob, In the book Western Maryland Railway Revenue Equipment Boxcars and Refrigerator Cars (published by the WMRY Historical Society) the black and white builders photo of the first car in the

By John King · #175654 ·

Maximum Capacity Gondolas

Maximum Capacity Gondolas The text below is from the book, Car Shop Practice: A Practical Textbook For The Instruction Of Mechanics, Helpers, And Apprentices In Railway Car Departments, Including

By Bob Chaparro · #175653 ·

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