Actually, if you have a closer look you'll notice a hatch on the top of the tank body at the near end. It turns out that UTLX 81014 is a tank car that has had a second conversion, this time to an AAR

Naah, typical double-sheathed box with inside steel framing. The outside braces were an attempt to reinforce the ends and corners of the car. David Thompson

Definitely unusual. It's a 3-compartment conversion of what was originally a single-dome Type V frameless tank car. Also appears to be lacking any safety valves for the domes. David Thompson

Someone on my S Scale list suggested I should sell the vent I designed for my Seaboard car in 2013. http://www.lanestrains.com/Seaboard_Express_Boxcar.htm Can’t believe it is 2 years ago already but

Here is an unusual view of a three compartment tank car. http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt702v2c8t1s_2661_1 Scott Haycock

Thanks for this Ed. I don’t suppose anyone happens to have a shot of (or other info on) thelateral running boards on an as-built NP car in the NP 16000-16999 series fromMay 1941? Rob Kirkham

Cyril I believe the steel underframe tank car goes back to 1893. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

Here's another interesting early boxcar. The caption says Single sheathed-??? http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt7sf7664q86_6041_1 Scott Haycock

Tom Casey wrote: Well, you are right, flat cars certainly could have been an origin for almost anything. But note in the tank car we are discussing that the tank sits down below the pair of

This model is very different from the car shown in the photo. This model looks to be a flat car that has had a tank placed on it. This was not done very often and the few times this approach was

Makes perfect sense if the idea is that most freight car designs seem to have evolved from a basic flat car. I also just happened to notice that there isn't a single tie plate to be seen. Tom

Hi List Members, In N scale, Fine N Scale Products makes a castresin kit for a car of similar era and construction. See image below. http://www.finenscale.com/images/2103_2104Tankcar.jpg -

This is a common design used by the Union Tank Line from the 1880's until the after 1910. There were other tank cars built with a similar design, but with differences in details such as truss rods,

Rob, Regarding the question about 1937 AAR box cars with wood running boards and the HO-scale version supplied by Innovative Model Works/Red Caboose and InterMountain, I can verify at least 3 roads

LaBelle makes (or made) a model of what could well be this specific car. I built it longer ago than I want to think about, as a teenager. Still have it, too. It may have straight-pin Kadees on it,

Scott Haycock wrote: Many tank cars around the end of the 19th century had side walkways like this. See any historical collection. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

The stencils applied to the sides of many box cars after 1966 read "KEEP OFF ROOF -- NO RUNNING BOARD" I know it's after the STMFC era, but that pretty much settled it for me. Tim O'Connor

Here's an interesting tank car. The photo is undated. Does anyone know about these cars? http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt7sf7664q86_5953_1 Scott Haycock

Paul Hillman asks: "Is "caboose" an official term, or is another name more "official"? I don't care." Well, rest assured...even if you don't care...that the term "caboose" is an official,

This was the brief 1904-06 or so affiliation of CH&D and PM (and Chicago Cincinnati & Louisville later in the period), billed as the "Great Central Route". Car itself is from PM series 32000-33249,