I forgot to mention that one of these cars, 82697, is still in existence at the Monticello, IL museum, and is often used in their freight train consist. Car was repainted several years ago and

Warning: guesswork follows! Maywald, "Classic Freight Cars", vol 7, p 45, has a photo of NYS&W 508, and calls it "a secondhand rebuild originally built in 1936". An IH of 10'0" is legible. Lucas,

I forgot to mention that one of these cars, 82697, is still in existence at the Monticello, IL museum, and is often used in their freight train consist. Car was repainted several years ago and

Ben, In 1941, the Wabash converted 250 of the 22000-22499 double sheathed automobile cars into steel side box cars with 10-panel sides. The cars had a 40'-6"IL, and 9'-2"IH like the 1934,8-panel side

Hello; I am looking for information on the Susquehanna Railroad 500 series box cars. Were these cars USRA rebuilds? What roof was used to build or rebuild these? Any information would be greatly

I have also heard the term "Keeley" from a former SP&S employee. I wonder how widespread the term was. Ed Edward Sutorik

Gentlemen: I have a gap in my collection of FGE/WFE/BRE related pages for the six issues between October 1944 through December 1945. I have a plan to fill most if not all of these gaps but for

The CN cars also had a "fishbelly" underframe, not modelled by the Atlas car shown in the linked photos. If you want the CN car in HO, get the Sylvan kit on the secondary market (my first choice

Jim.   Most interesting are the trucks, leaf, coil. Must have stolen them from the Standard Railway!!   Dennis

Thanks to everyone who replied. It looks like PGE was after my date but the TH&B 3000 series cars were regulars. Next question. Is the IM 10'6" 8 rung ladder with Canadian sill step end ladders and

Jack Burgess quoted: Famous early in the 20th century as a "cure" for alcoholism, the Keeley Cure involved injections of gold chloride (which is not known to have health effects) and consumption

Here is what a YV brakeman told me many years ago about Keeley's: "The YV had friction bearings in all of the cars and when you'd have a hot box or one that is warming up, that'd hang what you'd call

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Officially on the SP these were "journal box coolers," but crews universally called them "Keeley cans." They can be found in photos of steam locomotive tenders on the

Jim, I remember a conversation with Richard Hendrickson about this photo as he had a copy as well and we never could figure out why they were there. Greg Martin

Thanks, Richard Jim Hayes Portland Oregon www.sunshinekits.com rhendrickson@...> wrote: [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Jim, they were for coolant tanks to drip cold water on hot journals - a primitive but, apparently fairly effective way to deal with hot boxes. Many SP and PFE cars also had them in the 1920s and

One of Don Strack's UP photos is of an S-40-10 stockcar. It has several hooks under the side sill. What are they

You must remember that until about 1957 the PGE was an isolated railway connected to Vancouver, BC by car barge. At that time I would think that it would be very unlikely for a PGE car to stray very

Rob Manley wrote: Or the corollary to Clark's Law: the more you know, the more stand-ins you find in your fleet. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest

Steve, That's good news for me. I wanted to do one of my Westerfield USRA cars as Rock but I assumed they had all been rebuilt. This is an exception contrary to Clark's Law. The more you know , the