Nice video. One thing I found interesting is that they installed the brake gear from underneath the car. Somewhere in a box, I have a book on passenger cars that has a picture showing the underframe

Another CP-GN route was via the GN from the border through Great Falls MT (Milw) and then through Helena (NP) to Butte-SilverBow (UP). Tim O'Connor -- Tim

Glad to hear that several of you liked this. It is rare to see such extended footage on so many aspects of the freight car component fabrication and construction process. Credit for finding the link

Bruce, this may only tangentially answer your question but I found a picture of CP XX0294 on the GN in Edmonds WA in July 1960 in Hickcox' book Great Northern in Color, volume 1, which was enough to

Chuck Greene wrote, " I'd like to see a prototype that might have been saved." There used to be a Union Oil tank car of this sort at Travel Town in Griffith Park, LA. Actually, it could conceivably

Canadian Pacific had quite a number of slab side covered hoppers as well, as did the Pacific Great Eastern and Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo. CP had some different options on some of their cars in terms

Did CP have the same type of car? I just saw some in a fifties era publicity film: https://www.nfb.ca/film/station-master/ at about 5:22. Dennis Storzek

UTLX originally converted the last of their class V frameless cars for narrow gauge service, but as the D&RGW requested additional cars, they ran out, and had to modify class X cars.I recall reading

As someone just said, those are the 6500 gal. cars, while MDC followed the drawings in the 1906 CBD, which are of the earlier 6000 gal. car. They are similar, but not exactly the same. Dennis Storzek

I looked again. There are cars of this type at the Cumbres & Toltec & at the Colorado Railroad Museum, BUT they have new & wider frames, so are considerably different from what they originally

Charles, I seem to remember that there might be some of these cars in Colorado (perhaps at the Cumbres & Toltec, perhaps elsewhere) converted to narrow gauge so with different trucks, but otherwise

Yes, In the photo that is a GATX tank and Soo boxcar being loaded with Kaolin ca. 1959. The photo is from the link I included. You are correct a vast amount moved in dry form. I haven’t heard about

Thanks Tim, I think that answers my question. I had been using the two Jim Sands pics. The jumbo liberty decal set already had 20672 on it so I went with it even though I had planned on modeling a

By the 1960's the cars not fully repainted in bright red appear to have weathered roofs with paint sloughing off the panels and only the seam caps remain painted. But all of the

Thanks, appreciate that. Mine will be a bit older as it is a 1923 ARA car(X 29) Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Don’t copy me, I used Model Master Oxide Red....but I’m modeling a CNJ repaint - colors varied. There is a color builders photo in the Barriger Library Collection - ACF album which will make a

Tim, Procor cars wouldn’t have been visible until the 1960s… this Union Tank subsidiary wasn’t created until the mid-1940s as Products Tank Line of Canada. However, this company's cars were not

Mike, what color red did you use? fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

I’m getting ready to weather one of the subject cars and it occurred to me that I haven’t figured out if the roofs were painted or not. A long shot I know, but there are some pretty knowledgeable

Good question :-) Procor (not Proctor) and CGTX and UTLX-Procor cars don't show up in my US photos until the 1960's. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts