The car is carrying two gun barrels, and behind them two pedestal mounts. Based on overall size and general appearance, with some uncertainty I'd guesstimate the larger gun as 6"/50 and the other

I wanted this RTR car to look before the railroad rebuilt them into all steel cars. Side boards picked out with various pencils and roof painted with oils. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Used a Kadee 1948 RTR model, National Scale Car decals and Southwest Scale 7’ wide doors. As delivered black floor, ends and underframe. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

As to the poultry cars in New York, on the Bull Shippers group Doug Harding previously commented: “Early live poultry shipments were made by crating the live birds in small wooden crates loaded

Clarence, That looks like a normal breech to me on that shorter barrel. Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

The last two photos are of the same car. PPKX 5588 carries the name "Turner". Notice the end door is covering part of the reporting marks. Bob Chaparro Moderator Railway Bull Shippers

Looks like a broken gun barrel. Just above the stake pocket between the "VA." and "320" appears to be a broken end. Or is that a second, shorter barrel? CRZ

Which UP shield are you looking for? There were many. Fred Swanson

Also look at set nos. 161, 168-70. Ken Montero

I forgot to ask -- Were the LS&I flat cars painted black, or an oxide red color ? On 10/3/2022 2:56 PM, lstt100 wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Here is a link to National Scale Car Company's website . Look at decal sets nos. 209-214. http://nationalscalecar.com/decals-ho-scale/ Ken Montero

No, the Valuation Act of 1913 was intended to furnish the ICC with a basis “to test the reasonableness of railway rates” by determining the capital value of each railroad. A number of states,

LS&I 6284, part of 100 cars LS&I 6200-6299 acquired from CNW secondhand in 1953. Built by Western Steel Car & Foundry in 1922, former C&NW 40001-41019 series odd numbers only. LS&I acquired two more

Ex-C&NW and yes can be done using Red Caboose model. There is a photo of LS&I 6337 on page 23 of the Henry Maywald "Classic Freight Cars" book Vol 6. It has "bulkheads" made from what looks like

Yep: over 33,000 engineering drawings for freight cars and appliances alone. The NKPHTS' intent is to also get all of these online, alongf with anything else that's been digitized that's not a

LOL - "PRR" in this case is Panama Railroad On 10/3/2022 1:19 PM, Bob Chaparro via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I haven't seen any mention here of the new on-line presence of the NKPHTS archive at: https://archive.nkphts.org/ Mostly photos so far, I know they also have a drawing collection. Dennis Storzek

This PRR … Panama Rail Road … dates from around 1849. It was constructed with 5’-0” gauge track. The current railroad is the Panama Canal Railway that started operations in 2001 after

1918; early 20th century where the nation still had many thousands of acres of virgin 1st growth timber. Whomever had the contract for building the wooden cases used what appears to be 100% flat grain

Utility rate making utilized the return on investment made by the utility. Railroad rate making required a value for the railroad’s investment and the 1913 Act was supposed to provide that to the