Note the shape of the bolsters and saddles on this GATX car Steve Hile

While this looks like an ex-UTLX Type X car, I am not so sure. A 6500 gallon Type X car’s tank looks “beefier” than this one. So a 4000 or 4500 gallon car seems more likely. I don’t recall

Coos Bay Timber in Oregon also had some of these GN hopper cars on their logging railroad. Rich Wilkens

It's been a while (last June), but maybe he is busy planning Prototype Rails 2022? Give Mike a poke if you want to -- brockm@... -- Tim

Looks like 4095 to me, just like the caption says. Dave B. Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE device

No Poly Scale Oily Black, or any color, at Des Plaines, Micro Mark, Walthers . . . Any ideas? Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Maybe 4096? ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Chris Barkan <cplbarkan@...> I am thinking it looks like 4085. See

Thanks, guys. I’ll look for that Poly Scale Oily Black. Sent from Mail for Windows 10

I note that the Leadville Designs folks didn't make the effort to replicate the angle iron bracing on their N-scale models, although Voltscooter Engineering has shown that it can be done using 3-D

Mark, Thanks, this is very interesting! I am fascinated that the UP also used cars from EJR – the East Jersey Railroad and Terminal Company. According to the ORER reprint, page

I am thinking it looks like 4085. See enhanced photo attached. -- Chris Barkan Champaign, IL

Mike; My observations were only that. I cannot say for sure what all cases were, but from looking at pics and diagrams indicate. I am not surprised the manufacturers chose a conventional

Andy and Friends, W.C. Haftner Co., operating 99 cars in 1958. According to my 1958 ORER listing, this is from series 4065 to 4102, an ICC 103 type, with a capacity of 4,500 gallons. A note says this

The "industrial tractor" looks to me like the small batch trucks paving contractors used on highway projects back around WWI. It doesn't need headlights 'cause they don't work after dark. These trucks

Ken; I think it is intentional, since they are loading the cars in a way the pole load goes over where the brake assembly was mounted. I have some other pics that have the wheel, shaft and

Jack, Thanks for the additions and corrections on this story. I did not know that the Sierra cars were separate from the YV group. As for the McCloud River car or cars, they could have come from

Thanks for the explanation Dennis…! Jack

You realize that in our time frame the "ban" on archbar trucks simply said they couldn't be offered in unrestricted interchange. The railroads were free to haul anything that they could be persuaded

Love the brake wheel on the “2nd from left end” car I assume “intentionally disconnected”, but could be a “whoops”? -- Ken Akerboom

Build the master for them. Brian J. Carlson