The good news is that it was taken over by Eastern Car Works. The bad news is that they too seem to be out of business ☹ Regards, Andy Miller

I believe this company is out of business. Did another company or companies take over their product line? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

It’s all detailed in Ed Hawkins response above. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Tim, I have a photo of an L&N coke car in Mexico! Steve Johnson Nashville, TN

Hi Charlie, What is the base starting car for the 1277? What was the year of the rebuild? Interesting composite car. Ted Schnepf

risking going off topic... but it MIGHT impact the price of Chinese built freight car models... :-P The article about containers of grain was yesterday because NOW the

Tim, Pretty much anything will get loaded in back haul containers to avoid the empty shipment. As to the car in question, perhaps the SP was evaluating the design for wood chip use. Maynard Stowe

Andy, Really cool project. And as I model the Bay Area, I thought it would be appropriate to add a RGOX car to my fleet. Checking the 36 and 55 tank car tariffs RGOX is in the 36, but not the 55.

Here's three images of the rebuilt 120000 series into coke cars. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

I think they were loaded through the end door. :-)

Ed Hawkins verified the car is MP. Coke in MP (and L&N and others) cars was a common sight in Colorado and coke-coal traveled over Donner Pass on a daily basis (usually in D&RGW

Dennis the auction has photos of both sides with doors open, and you are correct. But I declined to join in this silly discussion - at first. :-P Tim O'Connor

Tom Madden wrote: "who can't believe we've spent any time discussing this...." Then again, this is the same bunch that put up 29+ posts on the etymology of "foobie". Ben Hom

Super work, Bob! The ends were soldered with a lot of skill and care. One of these days would you consider taking a photo of all your unique wood racks together, so we can see the differences? BTW

Ken, I am sure this is an open-topped MP coke car. Why it is in Oregon is a mystery. Most pictures I have seen of these cars are from south of St. Louis on that portion of the railroad associated with

I think that finding an MP coke car on the SP Toledo Branch is a little far-fetched. The SP converted several different kinds of single sheathed boxcars into 'hog fuel' (woodchip) cars, including some

still interesting, that it wound up in the backwoods of oregon? ;-) mel perry

Ken & others interested, While the 1950 photo isn’t sufficiently clear to provide a car number, the visible clue is the Murphy end that’s the spotting feature to determine the origin. The MP coke

...an early-style SP Hog Fuel car might be a more likely candidate up in that part of Oregon. The first letter of the road name peeking out under the shadow on the end appears to be rounded; I can't

Tom Madden wrote: Full agreement. Tony Thompson