Ray and all, I can't make out the car number in that photo but I do know that GM&O numbered all of their MoW and related non-revenue equipment into 66000 and 67000 series numbers. If you

I agree Ray but it’s the only photo I’ve seen of a broadside of this modified type car. Let me know your thoughts on the roof please. Radial or flat?

Late... but relevant. I took the I mage Claus posted and tried to correct the color. I was able to get a tiny bit of blue into the sky w/o losing the BCR, corrected much of the contrast problems,

1967 repack date and absolutely no dimensional data. This is a MOW car. In revenue service, none got GM&O paint, and none survived past 1954. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

And in GM&O lettering. Didn’t think any of them made it that way

Awesome Owen. Thank you so much. Fenton

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SFRD installed them in back of the hatches. Nelson Moyer

Ken Adams asked: "Is there an official name or generally accepted name for the very short "Latitudinal Running Board" used on caboose roofs located where the caboose end ladder reached the caboose

Brian, Eric; I thank You both for the info. I was thinking along the line of the icing platform itself, and didn't get my head around the thought that it may not be referred to as the lateral. Not

Is there an official name or generally accepted name for the very short "Latitudinal Running Board" used on caboose roofs located where the caboose end ladder reached the caboose roof? Granted that

You mentioned hardware being removed so not sure what that covers but if the ladders, doors, underframe, brake components are still with the kits you should find a a buyer. You might consider selling

You might also want to try HOSwap@groups.io Jim Brewer

Additionally, some reefers had a wood platform around the ice hatches. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Vincent Only one way to find out -- Offer them for sale on Ebay, and see what you get. The absence of trucks and wheels would not bother anyone on THIS

Not Eric, but the reefer hatches are in the way. Brian J. Carlson -- Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Eric; Was there any reason they were not required on reefers with metal roofs? That seems like one of most potentially dangerous situations of all. Steve Stull winslow7076

Guy Wilber wrote: “Latitudinal Running Boards”, which is the official nomenclature of The ICC, The MCBA, The ARA and The AAR, were never mandated on house cars with exposed wood roofs, nor

Charlie another fine looking SS box car. As, for “snake bites” as we all experience at times, one has to keep muttering, “Model Railroading is FUN, Model Railroading is FUN” or maybe