Very interesting. Thanks Dennis, this will raise some issues for our sim software. Dave Nelson

if you go the santa fe modelers web site you can bye a book on freight cars tom -- Thomas j Cataldo

Got it! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <Espee@groups.io> on behalf of "Doug Debs via Groups.Io" <dougdebs2472@...> Reply-To: <Espee@groups.io> Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 2:15 PM To:

Courtesy of Bob Drenth and Jeff Aley... In cases where track and building did not allow man to be on that side of a car to get doors lined up- usually the rail directly outside the door would get

Cane or bagesse? Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Bob Chaparro <chiefbobbb@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 12:28

I don't know precisely why but I have 17 images of Bx-12 box cars andonly one Bx-13, even though they look very similar and I assume would havebeen in similar service. Tim O'Connor

Westerfield 4801 ATSF BX-13 Photos or Info - Modeling Fall 1950 Does anyone have photos of this prototype from 1950 or the late 1940's? Additional number or equipment roster information would also be

This almost certainly was the last "assigned service" for T&NO 35247. Its glory days were long gone. The photos are from the Library of Congress. Loading sugarcane into boxcars near Delcambre,

I agree, if you've ever had a brass passenger car with an unpainted interior you know to paint the interior. Any darker color should do it. Bill Woelfel, Homewood, Ill.

Don finally home. To follow up the stockcar with the funny looking racks inside is a Pennsylvania K7a stockcar #134299. My memory was faulty, as soon as I looked at the photos again, I realized it was

Thanks, Ben, and Richard Townsend, for instantly providing the link I missed. Schuyler

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: "In this thread there is a reference to a movie. I missed that link, and have reviewed almost all the messages, but unless I accidentally deleted a post, I can’t find that

https://www.bpa.gov/news/AboutUs/History/Pages/25000-Volts-Under-the-Sea.aspx Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

In this thread there is a reference to a movie. I missed that link, and have reviewed almost all the messages, but unless I accidentally deleted a post, I can’t find that link. Did I

Hmmm... if Charlie Slater is correct about the ends, then your photosappear to show an Fe-15, which had the same ends as your photos.

Bill I seem to recall that is an option available for the group settings - theability to edit posts! I disabled it on the BBFCL group - it seemed like a weirdidea at the time... Perhaps it makes more

Don it is a PRR stockcar which appears to be set up for poultry crates. When I get home I'll post some more images. Doug Harding Sent from my phone

I forgot to list the 4 classes, senior moment I guess. They are FE-5, 12, 15 and 19. Charlie Slater Sent from Outlook

Eric it could be one of 4 classes of cars all rebuilt from Fe-L, N and O class cars. Have you looked on the underframe for the brake badge plate it will have the class listed on it. The 4 classes of

OK, Doug, I'll bite. What is depicted in the first photo with a CNR or CPR style stock car having rack floors in it? No hoofed animal could have been carried in such a car so I presume it was a method