I was not unusual for GATX and UTLX to repurpose single compartment tank cars into two or three compartments by putting in extra heads to separate compartments. You can see the rivet lines for two

These kinds of rebuilt tank cars to get more compartments were very common in the wine-car fleet, though this particular car does not look like one of them. Tony Thompson tony@...

a couple more examples -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Bob, The Red Caboose 42ft flat cars with their 'fishbelly sides' are either the USRA cars or pretty close. The only two RRs I know who had them are the NYC and the MILW. The NYC cars are fairly

Just wanted to let you guys know that the Amarillo Railroad Museum just received a limited run of InterMountain FTW&D 2-bay HC1 hoppers. Check out our website (www.amarillorailmuseum.com) or search

Sam, Great piece of information. Thank you! Tod Sullivan

Another wrinkle in this whole freight car handling thing is that a) A RR's customers could demand certain car types and even cars from foreign RRs for loading, based on availability from lists of

And Bob, I was the guy who did that presentation. Just to add what Ken said, - Home road cars could be used for any load. - Since foreign cars cost the RR money in the form of per diem (daily)

Charlie, While multiple dome tank cars are reasonably rare, there’s a clear explanation for this one. It was originally build as a single dome car, and then modified by compartmentalizing it

I stand corrected. In this case you can decal right onto them. -- John

I’m finishing up a book for the Missouri Pacific Historical Society based on photos from the Joe Collias collection the society bought in September 2018. This morning I was looking through some

Tony: Very well said. You took care of the shipper who wanted a car for loading first. Everything else came second. Paul C. Koehler

The individual responsible for this was the Car Distributor, who sent empties for loading. He was well aware of the Car Service Rules, but even more aware of “Rule Zero,” the “Boss Rule,” that

Bob, There were car distribution clerks (large numbers of them at major yards) whose job was to track and locate available empty cars to fill agents/shippers requests according to car service rules

Hello Brian and group, Kadee cars have stryene bodies and Delrin parts, the bodies have a thin layer of water base paint and the parts are unpainted. Sam Clarke R&D / Tech Advisor

Bob, Car Service Rules governed most of this, and they are in every copy of the Official Railway Equipment Register. There also have been several discussions about this on the STMFC groups.io forum

Richard I did some digging around and given that these cars were 42'1"long and built in 1923 they might possibly be clones of the USRA flatcar. Red Caboose, now Intermountain, makes a model of this

Hello group, I was doing some "fantasy manifest" where I makeup list of freight trains and imagine each car/load and this question occurred to me: At an origin point such as a busy yard where lots of

Richard Hendrickson’s prototype summary for the Tichy HO scale flat car models begins on page 5 of this June 1993 Rail Model Journal. http://magazine.trainlife.com/rmj_1993_6/ Eric

Bob, After some Photoshoppery, it looks like PFE 19670 on the car end. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN