Dennis- I wasn't trying to say that the farmers field immediately north of the yard became O'Hare... although it is today with the incursion of the airport into Bensenville.... Charlie Vlk

That's a 36' Fowler single sheathed box car owned by the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis. The legend in the herald reads "The Dixie Line," Westerfield produced kits for these cars. This

I think that is the NC&StL box mentioned earlier. Is that a pre-PS-1 Pullman Standard (Southern?) welded box car (dare I say "PS-0"?) next to it? I also see three CB&Q XM-32 box cars: one in the

Steve Hedlund wrote: "It's too bad no one is willing to identify the cars in the photos to what they are." I'm not unwilling.  It's simply the fact that (a) you never requested IDs and (b) it's not

Steve,   The 40 ft MILW gons are the Westerfield models.  The 50 foot cars you see in many photos and would be a great car to have a modeled.  A quick look at the 1954 ORER still shows 3200

Steve- With the ORERs available on the web and all the other resources available anyone that is interested in more detail on identifying the cars should be able to do it with not too much effort....

And the express reefer, seemingly painted green, between two freight reefers with at least one hatch open (look behind the Burlington box). Ron Merrick

In the third row from forward, slightly left of center, there is a short (possibly 36') SS box car with the doors open. The car appears to have a black/white herald but, I can't make out the

For the longest time I conflated him with Steve Polkinghorn, the dentist, having never met either of them. -- Nolan Hinshaw, native Californian since 1944 "Gib einem Mann einen Fisch und er wird für

Wonderful shot, especially useful for weathering the roofs of steam era house cars. Marty McGuirk

It's too bad no one is willing to identify the cars in the photos to what they are. Besides the obvious fact that there is a VGN hopper, a Reading box car, a MILW box car, a PRR box car, a MP box car

Dear Dave...      W-O-W!!! What a great find. It has many weathering ideas. Many, many thanks for sharing this photo with the Group!   Steve Vallee

I note that this steep decline was during the advent and general growth of TOFC. Do the sources you quote refer only to the freight car loading of LCL. Barry Bennett Barry, TOFC was

Hi Tony, I started to work for the GN in July 1968. Sometime between that date and the BN Merger in 1970, I toured the GN's LCL facility in Fargo, ND. There were about 10 to 12 cars spotted outside

A couple more suggestions. Terry Wigmann custom ground one tip of a pair of chain nosed pliers to a small diameter to form eyelets smaller than ones from DA. Another method I use is take a strand of

Thank you Steve, Tim and Pierre. Actually I posted that message on July 15th and already came up with the solution that Steve and Tim suggested. I could not get .012 wire to work and used .010

Tim I note that this steep decline was during the advent and general growth of TOFC. Do the sources you quote refer only to the freight car loading of LCL. It would be reasonable to surmise that

"Battling" doesn't mean there was much of it, only that it was worth fighting for. Certainly in the Far West the LCL volume was tiny by the 1950s, compared to the 1920s. "Golden Age?" You sure

Actually not... O'Hare never came south of Irving Park Road, although that road was relocated around the south edge of the property that did become O'Hare. That's not the road that shows by the

LCL % total carloadings -- (data from Tim Gilbert, 10/12/2000) 1940 21.2% of 36.4 million (7.7 million) ( Note: 1940 was a depression year ) 1950 11.3% of 38.2 million (4.3 million) 1959