Craig Brilliant! In the back of my mind I thought there was such a car but I'd forgotten where I'd seen it -- There's a photo of SAL #20203 on page 56 of Wayner's "Freight Car Pictorial". SAL had 10

A friend picked up a Kadee silver 40' SAL PS1 with 8' door. It has an empty yellow rectangle painted above the new date. He was wondering if the car was in some type of special service, being painted

I said: as Craig Zeni replied: reportedly. Craig, I stand corrected <VBG>! Dang, that is truly an odd concept - a double door car where only one could be open at one time. I would assume (always

Hi All, We were talking about single door cars. This is a double door car. Joel Holmes

Bruce, You mean like this one? <http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/rm/SAL20209Raleigh1962-1200.jpg> <GRIN> The other side was arranged identically…designed for lumber loading reportedly. Craig

Hi Tim, Sorry for the slow response. I was at a model railroad club meeting last night. Since I do not have a copy of the 1953 Car Builder's Cyclopedia, does you copy indicate which railroad had

During Prototype Rails we will have a Friends of the Freight Car Lunch at noon at the Hilton Hotel's restaurant. We will order off the menu [ $8-$12 ]. If you would like to attend, let me know

Photos of this series appear in RP CYC 21, pp 62-63 (P&LE 36297, 36499, 36051) and in Sweetland and Yanosey, "NYC Color Guide", p 72 (P&LE 36167). Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

This is only the second view I've seen of these modified USRA steel box cars. Could it be represented by any of the current/new plastic models? http://www.ebay.com/itm/300632978348 Tim O'Connor P.S.

Um Bruce, I was correcting the statement that said flatly that no steel box car was built with a left opening door in the 50's. That statement is obviously wrong to me, but evidently not to you or

Um Tim, I'd be really curious to know about double door boxcars built without left opening doors? Otherwise, your statement is so obvious as to avoid the need to make it ;^) Regards Bruce

Omigosh, what a treasure. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Thanks Tony, For most people it's probably like reading a phone book but, I find it interesting, for example, that St. Louis Refrigerator Car Co. #2260 left Marion, Ohio in train Extra 1741 @ 7:55 AM

Dave Lawler wrote: Conductors on many railroads kept these records, but I don't know that they were required. The conductor kept it as his personal record, maybe as a backup if other records

Greetings all, My neighbor and fellow train nut recently acquired some very old railway related items from his daughter-in-law's grandfather's estate. Among them was a small ledger book titled

Since it appears that few movies we've been "discussing" have anything to do with steam era frt cars and, yes, there have been some that did [ Emperor of the North to name one ], the thread about

But out of context is precisely what people will find in the archives. It's a giant mistake to think that a long sequence of emails will somehow magically coalesce into a seamless, coherent

<<How about "White Christmas" where they head from Florida to Vermont the shot of the train while moving is SP with streamlined equipment, then when they reach Vermont on supposedly the same train it

Clark Propst wrote: Exactly. I see this panel as really heavy on audience participation, with the moderator (Greg Martin) making sure we don't get bogged down in detailed discussions of anyone's

Hi Ben, I should have specified single door. I believe you are correct. Joel