This is an interior view of a Southern Railway stock car built in 1938 with a concrete floor -- was this a common practice? I don't recall hearing of this

It has the right major features for Class R-30-21, for which it is lettered: 4/4 Dreadnaught ends, straight-panel steel roof, wood sides. Ends however do not appear to be the correct W-corner-post

Jeff White wrote: Quite true, and the syndicate which Harriman headed controlled the stock of the IC and thus its board, not merely the president, after November 1907. The box cars in IC

The Yahoo Southern Pacific site announced the availabilityof an HO scale PFE reefer in the Bachmann Silver Series. Here is a link to the product:

While the IC was not officially a Harriman road, from 1887 to 1906 Stuyvesant Fish was president and his friend and business ally EH Harriman was on the board of directors and served as vice president

This pair of photos from Terry Link's Canada Southern site also show meat reefers with the side doors covered with large paper sheets, in a NYC freight yard in Manhattan in the mid-'30s. The second

List- Does anyone know when poling was outlawed? There was an interesting post by John Nehrich on the NEB&W fan page on Facebook this week regarding a little poling yard along the D&H served by a

Thanks for posting the photos -- master caster indeed. I was hoping that Frank would produce this car. As for the cast on grabs -- will make that decision when I build the kit. Based on the photos I

I don't see anything so unusual about it. It might extend past the end of the roof, but so do the end posts in this car. It's arranged to slide down in tracks that make use of the outer flanges of the

Clark wrote: Frank has always been in the admirable position of being able to make masters for cars he wanted. His personal line is no different. He needs lots of certain types of cars for his

Anyone approach Chad Boas about doing the car? ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

No, but "it's more expensive because it's a resin kit", "it takes more effort to build because it's a resin kit", and "it's very limited production because it's a resin kit" are all basically true and

How about this setup. MILW 64179 idler SOO 4791 Poles CB&Q 89037 idler ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

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Gary Thanks for the link to the photo. I think there’s another number afterthe “5” – the only 13085 was built before 1885 and was offthe roster by 1912!. This was a XM-21, 40’ I.L. numbered

Frank, of course, has a great number of those signature C&IM coal gons with the cast-on details on his C&IW layout. One is superdetailed to the max with stand-off grabs, etc. Even under good layout

I know a DRGW modeler who can¹t afford a fleet of the brass GS gondolas Challenger came out with a while back, even if he could find them. A resin kit like this, thoughŠ.. Thanks! -- Brian

That's a beautiful casting. I also sold my Sunshine IC hopper car kit -- Hopper cars are probably among the most difficult resin kits to build, unless they are complete one piece bodies like this

I love zerohedge---wish they offered more vintage steam articles though... I would be keen to see the CB&Q pic. Brad Andonian out west---where it rains.

Oops, wrong key sorry, it is Friday the 13th! http://www.shorpy.com/node/17486?size=_original#caption gary “egg on the key board” laakso