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

Hi Tim, That is exactly what I though. However, you never know for sure. Joel

Tim "out of context" O'Connor wrote: "Ben Hom, in a rare burst of excess, wrote Clarification: No SINGLE DOOR left-opening steel box cars were built in this time period. But LOTS of double door and

Ben Hom, in a rare burst of excess, wrote Clarification: No SINGLE DOOR left-opening steel box cars were built in this time period. But LOTS of double door and combination door box cars had

I noticed on a number of prototype car drawings that route card boards (and placard boards) are often not dimensioned, suggesting that they might be a standard size. I inquired of Guy Wilber what

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE That's a "sho'nuff-Barlow", a PRR X37B. The "gives" are the double-wide sheets with intermediate rivet row, the diagonal rivet gussets at the door opening,

I'm not so sure that Tom's original thoughts were to discuss what to model. But more how and why to model. I just did an excerise. Having proper doors cast for the CGW 900 series box cars. I chose a