Yup, it is Bohn Patent Refrigerator. The RI car behindit was built in 1905 and looks pretty new. Steve Hile

Bob, Definitely not a boxcar. I can’t quite read the lettering above the door, but I think it says “Dorn (or Bohn) Patent Refrigeration”. Well, whoever wrote the text was a . . . civilian.

Shipping Seafood By Refrigerator Car The information below accompanied this photo: http://helmrichsseafood.com/vic150.jpg "In 1895, when he was 18 years old, William F. Helmrichstarted a

Claus, A nice find. Haven't found one in a while, but when I find such an abandon freight car I always check the trucks to look for the railroad initials in the castings of the side frames. It's not

Claus - 300 ATSF Ft-N 53 foot flat cars, built by ACFin 1928, original number series was 90201-90500. The Live List shows the cars moving around in number series and nearlyall of them (if not all)

"ACKSON MAINTAINER" was "JACKSON MAINTAINER" and suggests that the car's last use was as an assigned carrier car for a Jackson Track Maintainer. The car number is one digit shy of being a Santa Fe M

Hi List Members, I'm cleaning out some stuff I no longer need. This is for SP&S fans, I have the following data pack... Tichy's HO scale 41-foot flat car by Hendrickson (features SP&S flats) and

Hi, I would like to ask the assistance of the august members of this group with a freight car ID. I did not record an exact date (foolish of me), but I took the photos below sometime in the 1990s

Hello Everyone, As you are aware Cyc 34 is the last one to be issued. There is a sale of remaining RP Cyc's to reduce remaining stock. I can offer the following volumes in the sale including

I mention this to Keith Jordan, one of the authors of the Santa Fe reefer book. Hecommented, "If cars were in dedicated service, there would be bulletins,etc., that would indicate which cars were in a

Thanks for the info I was thinking of the 3 foot high cars. I'm in S and there are 40 and 41' foot cars but no 46 foot. The 41 foot cars are excellent Southern prototype though. I bought a 40' 3

It appears that the Terminating Truck is a swing-motion truck - You can see the parallel transoms and bolster between them at 2:01 in the clip. It should have significantly more mass than the standard

The GJc were scrapped in the late 1930s (class GJ was built 1909-13). The later 98000-98631 were class GUb (also #s 91000-92599); class GU gons rebuilt with corrugated ends. David Thompson

The weird part is what happened to the 98000-98799 GJc series betweenthe 1934=1935 rebuilding and the 1940 ORER (where they DON'TEXIST) and then the reappearance of the series in the 1950 ORER? Were

Friends, I am looking at the N&W Historical Society drawings list, and have found a wealth of information about class GJc, including photos, drawings and lettering, at

Hi List Members, I'm cleaning out some stuff I no longer need. I have the following article... Essential Freight Cars 20 - QA&P boxcar, carbon black covered hopper and a vinegar tank car by Ted

Dennis Storzek wrote: Wasn't that the question? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538;

Although the Terminated Truck may have been manufactured during our time frame. Note the journal covers on the truck, normally on plain bearing devices for supporting STMFCs on rails. John Barry

---In STMFC@..., <b.hom@...> wrote : Heavy enough to squash a Terminator, though this takes place well after the era of this list. ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPKG3WMkMxQ Ben

James Matthews wrote: "Are you sure about those weights? Not quite apples to apples but a built up three piece 70-ton roller bearing truck with truck mounted cylinders and 34" wheels weighs