Love those end platforms! -- Ken Akerboom

...being ignored by dapper Dan standing on the side of the gon. Jack

Kevin, These were a small series numbered 1201-1225 pulled from the 1941-2 built 9000-9449 series 10'-0" IH '37 AAR boxcars. They were originally boxcar red, but painted gray with the lettering you

Third picture, tank car, probably Tyco. Note horn hook coupler between it and the car in front of/behind it. I'm guessing the "train" is placed in front of a photo of the building (photo

Both! I placed a red washer under the BLT car and filed the bolster down on the IM car. Clark

But which one :-) Dan Smith

While it may sting at first, I think gentle constructive criticism could be more common for model photos posted to io groups. Too often, responders to posted model photo call cars ‘great’ when in

perfect! :-) -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

That's more better! Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

I made some height adjustments. Here's a new photo. Clark

Photo: Shipping Bells In A Gondola (Circa 1920s) Photo from the Indiana Historical Society: https://images.indianahistory.org/digital/collection/dc012/id/15242/rec/2 Click on the arrows and scroll

Photo: Hauser-Stander Tank Cars (1926) Photo from the Indiana Historical Society: https://images.indianahistory.org/digital/collection/p16797coll21/id/94/rec/1 Click on the arrows and scroll to

Photo: Lincoln Oil Tank Car FTX 10073 (Circa 1925) Photo from the Indiana Historical Society: https://images.indianahistory.org/digital/collection/P0129/id/1557/rec/21 Click on the arrows and

Leave it to the Hawkeye's on this group to pick out the height discrepancy ; )) These are RTR cars that the previous owner ran, so I never paid any attention. Was more interested in correcting the

Some interesting photos of freight cars serving A.E. Staley company and Wabash freight cars and facilities in Decatur, IL 1930s through 1950s.

Garth, Good call on the engine class! The locomotive is class N2sa, USRA 2-10-2, built circa 1919, and “Pennsified” circa 1924. As for the date, unfortunately the loco can only confirm that

The NYC/Michigan Central box car is a "1910 standard" car;-,one of 16000 such built for the NYCL in that year. The fishbelly underframe with 10" side sills was one of three types of underframes used

Friends, While this photo features a PRR 2-10-2 (an N2?), here is a nearly complete, if somewhat grainy, view of a C&EI gondola. I think the number is 94358 from series 92000-9449. There were still

Eric, In my 12/1928, this is one of the 2nd series of boxcars on the CGW - inside 36 ft long, 8-6 wide, & 7-6 hi - series from 12502 to 14500 - 30T - 16 cars. There is a bunch more info if somone

Interesting, except that on average Rochester (and Buffalo) gets over four times the annual snowfall that Philadelphia does: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/snowfall-totals-city/ Might I suggest that