You are absolutely right. I had reefers on the brain when I wrote that. I believe this is a Bx 2. Bob

Bob Chaparro wrote: "Here is an image of Santa Fe boxcar 38728, courtesy of the University of New Mexico Libraries' digital

"Rr-" would be a refrigerator class. And it sure isn't a Bx-34 either. So something's gotta give here... Scott Pitzer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Ben, perhaps I should have explained my thinking more clearly. These ATSF cars were built 1923-1925 with K brakes. Information available to me indicates they were upgraded to AB brakes in the "40's".

Sorry Ben it's the spell checkers fault (grin)! -- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax--Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI User NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS

Ben Hom says: " "Extinguished"? They're not all dead yet!" Well, I for one don't favor extinguishment. After all, several of them are quite knowledgeable about other RR's...and some predict that at

Get one letter wrong, and an auto-guess spell checker is liable to substitute just about anything. If you're not looking... Scott Pitzer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Jon Miller wrote: "Nowhere is so much information available in one place and the books written by such an extinguished/knowledgeable group of authors."   "Extinguished"?  They're not all dead

Just one stencil, Clark. There's a photo somewhere of a paint crew with the stencil hung from the eaves of the car. On the original map stencil, introduced late in 1939, the route lines were all

Yes, common sense should have told me the lettering guide. I knew it was one of Richard's books just couldn't remember which one. If one has interest in the ATSF you really should get the books the

Good hint, Jon. See p. 11 in the Santa Fe Railway Painting and Lettering Guide, Vol. 1, published by SFRH&MS, complied by Richard Hendrickson. Shows a paper map stencil. Looks like may have had more

One of the SF books shows a car being painted with the map (stencil in place). I don't remember which but am thinking it's the refrigerator cars by the organization. -- Jon Miller For me

Last night we were operating a friends layout. I was the conductor and was in the process of picking up a ATSF box car when my engineer said “I wonder how many stencils they used to make that

I found a LCL waybill study the Mopac did in April 1960, another reason for the departure from LCL to LTL as the large number of railcars handling under 5000 pounds per trip. Out of the 200 cars on

Ben, I think the gentleman is saying he selected photos TAKEN before 1936 on the theory that while newly built cars were being equipped with AB brakes at that time, very few older cars had been

Good grief, Chet. No wonder the railroads wanted to get out of the LCL business! Richard Hendrickson

I have waybills for one car of LCL which originated at Forrest, IL. There was a total of 110 waybills for the load in WAB 84807. The contents of the car was 568 bags of certified and uncertified

Randy These are 50-ft. cars with ten ice hatches to serve a like numbered roof bunkers. They were intended to ship frozen foods using brine solution in their bunkers. There were about 125 in the FOBX

Eric Lombard wrote: "I used a cut-off photo date of 1936 thinking it not likely that cars earlier than this date would have been upgraded [to AB brakes]."   Terrible assumption!  While it's true

Hello, Bill... I am *very* new to this site and so please excuse this reply if it is cockeyed or otherwise unhelpful! I have been working on a database of box cars built between 1910 and 1945 for