Eric, George, and Bob, Concur with the NYC box car 5-57 reweigh stencils, however, the build date that’s difficult to read is 9-50. The NYC 170338 in question was one of 1,500 PS-1s built in

Claus Schlund wrote: The SP car number begins with 537, which makes it a Class G-50-3 car, built by Pressed Steel Car in the fall of 1913. It's a drop-bottom car, and no longer has the T-section

Hi List Members, We get to see an SP steel gondola in a PRR maintenance yard in Philadelphia in 1920 This gon is a long way from home!

Hi List Members, PRR 'UNION LINE' class RF reefers in 1917... https://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Detail.aspx?assetId=8353 PRR RF and R7 reefers in 1917...

Unloading cans, not can stock. Can stock would be flat sheets. Howard Garner

The NYC boxcar bears a KC 5-57 weigh location and date stencil near the weigh data. Near the end of the bottom door track is the BLT 9-56 stencil. Additionally, the large shadow keystone emblem on the

Can't help myself. The photo's date is between 1934 and 1969,. Well, that narrows it down. Looking at the Pennsy boxcar, I'd say, 1954 or later was a good guess. George Courtney

Group, I am looking for the instruction sheet for Sunshine Kit #47.2 MILW #7085000-713999, 1937-60s. If you can help me please contact me off list. Thanks Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM

A follow-up on this. I circulated the model photo to my friend Ben Dibble, who send me back a prototype photo of the same car and the same load! “Dad” is his father who was “standing next to

Ed, I thought the ERIE had a four-truck flat as pictured in that ad, but after going through ALL the diagrams in the ERIE diagram book available on Fallen Flags (more convenient that actually getting

Photo: NYC Boxcar 170338 A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/8203/rec/6 Click on the arrows and scroll

Photo: FDEX Reefer 7063 (1953) A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/8054/rec/26 Click on the arrows and

Thanks, Claus. ERIE was famous for high and wide loads, thanks to the original six-foot gauge and resulting clearances. Schuyler

Photo: Seaboard Boxcar 24145 A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/10118/rec/43 Click on the arrows and

Photo: Unloading Can Stock (1948) A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/7924/rec/116 Click on the arrows

Photo: Dry Ice Reefer DICX 276 (Maybe) A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/10391/rec/35 Click on the

Neat model Ed. Certainly an attention getter. Bob Allan

The follow up post on hopper details has published on my DesignBuildOp blog. USRA hopper details are also included. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2021/04/23/coal-hopper-details-pt-2/ Eric

Bob, They are listed on the General American pages in my October 1958 ORER: Series 2000-2999, 313 cars, plus four exceptions with a slightly lower interior volume. Could it be that the series had

The flat car itself may be from the D&H, which had direct connection to GE's Schenectady Works and also with the Erie at Binghamton. Erie was the best road for handling oversized loads due to its