John Sykes asked: "Now that I mentioned that I am doing an ACL roster, I must note that I am having trouble locating 1950's era freight car photos (especially early '50s). If anyone can point me to

Jason, Red Caboose makes an ARA standard 1923 model in HO. The problem with the CGW cars is that they are not a match for the sides. I think the CGW cars have been done in resin in HO scale. Tim

I goofed and uploaded the file in .XLSX format, so went back and reloaded it in .XLS format so people using earlier versions of Excel could upload it. -- John

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Now that I mentioned that I am doing an ACL roster, I must note that I am having trouble locating 1950's era freight car photos (especially early '50s). If anyone can point me to good source other

Just wanted to say that I have found Tony's blogs to be extremely valuable in fabricating my own tank car safety placards. Regarding the full versus empty decision, I have taken Tony's approach one

Decided to produce rosters of Florida railroads. SAL is first, will be followed by ACL next (FEC never had a large roster, but will do if asked). If you find errors, please bring them to my

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As noted, the CGW 1923 All Steel A.R.A. cars didn't have Creco doors, they had 3 panel car builders' doors. On line photos of the as-delivered cars outside of the link provided appear to be hard to

I seem to remember that one of the CBC's had at least one or more drawings but I'm at the other house from my books. I thought about it once but it was way more than just a curved

Here is a photo of one of the Monon tank cars Mr Darnaby referred to in his post. From the Barriger collection. Regards...Jerry Albin

I've been following this thread with interest and have 2 Comments/ questions 1) Jim's original post said: I'm having trouble locating pics of the tank cars in crude oil service on the web. My

Jon Miller wrote : > Also I really, really would like an accurate [Santa Fe] Tk-L. ThatBettendorf? cast > underframe if done correctly is neat. I thinknow that 3-D is here and there are > some good

Tony, I wasn't saying "all tank cars lettered for any RR" - I put some wiggle words because I knew about the SP (and other RRs). I was descrbing the way most (only many?) RRs dealt with their tank

Garth Groff wrote That depended on the arrangement between the two. Yes. To clarify, the shipper could pay shipment charges (and of course include it in the price of the cargo). That

My friend of almost 50 years, Dick Kuelbs passed away on Saturday the 29th of March from complications connected to cancer. Dick had a lifetime passion for Freight Cars and his pictures are in

Bill Darnaby wrote: It is my understanding that the "not in commercial service"notation in the ORER was intended to prevent reloading offline, not to prevent any commercial use. A few small roads had

Jim, The SP, of course, served many oil refineries, particularly in California and in Texas (T&NO). I know of no refineries served directly by the WP, and for their fuel needs their

The Monon listed five tank cars in the ORER but with note D stating that they were not in commercial service. It was always my understanding that they shuttled back and forth between Lafayette Shops

I have at least one negative in my collection showing a Missouri-Kansas-Texas tank car, X116114, clearly stenciled "Edible Oil Only". Obviously in the non-revenue series, as other cars in the same