Don, It is a Great Northern car. See Westerfield 2851. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Donald B. Valentine wrote:

Looks like either Bridgeport or Stamford to me (my money would be on Bridgeport). The box car looks like a GN car, see Westerfield kit #2852. FWIW, I recall seeing a photo of a M&W car on the O&W at

Notice that the 2 CISX cars are 4 course tank cars. Maybe Bob Gould should have done this car. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

It looks like they were in a lot of places, see http://www.koppers.com/htm/OurCo_Heri_Main.html Don Burn

Sounds like the ex-Train Miniature x29/ARA car. If so, it's going to be a pretty low height car and I'm not sure correct as that number equates to a 10'6" IH car in my 1950 ORER Jerry Glow

I suspect most of us think of coke as a fuel used only by heavy industry, primarily in steel making. That said, this certainly looks more like a dealer in coke, with no coking furnaces showing.

At least to the New Haven, judging by the catenary support. But where on the NH and what is the neat 50 ft., single door car with the Murphy ends behind the support? Regards, Don Valentine

He don't look like Charlie Sheen!!!!!  Dennis

I'm not sure everyone is on the same page as to which coupler it is or not but with regard to the #4 you may be overlooking a part of its operating characteristics. As Deeny mentioned the #4 had a

Tim -   It is a "blind flange." that is, one that covers or terminates the end of a run of pipe or a pressure vessel. This car must have had the capability of handling pressurized loads. It is most

He was certainly risking serious injury. Gondola loads do shift suddenly. Charlie

See message 78111 and subsequent. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/message/78111 KL

Dave, You didn't say if your kit was a one-piece plastic cast body with molded on ladders, etc. Do the side sills stick out slightly from the body panels? If so, I suspect what you have is the

I recently picked up an old Walthers kit (white box). It is labeled as a 40' AAR steel box with dreadnaught ends and is lettered for C&NW #84026. It has 5 riveted panels either side of a 6' door,

With regards to the gon load . . . "Seems a shame, people throwing out a perfectly good white guy like that" (Let's see if anyone gets THAT movie reference . . .) Seriously, Tim, great links. The

Indeed, reporting marks CISX belonged to Carnegie-Illinois Steel. The 1/43 ORER lists one 87'6' 263-ton depressed-center flat, five hoppers, and 30 tank cars. The reporting marks and the company

what is the odd device on the end of this tank car? http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=eb8dfb80ba8b6c72_large Tim O'Connor . Tim, I can't help you with your question but thanks for the

Tim; I can only speculate that it is an access hatch, but I have never seen anything quite like it. I am even more interested in what CISX is, as the CIS Corp. was Carnegie-Illinois Steel, one

Tim; That is definitely not a production facility, and from what you can see in the range of this photo, is oriented around unloading car loads of coke, sorting and storing it in overhead bins,

Tim; The C&O and Clinchfield are the only two I can think of that had those ends. There were others with extended height ends, such as NYC and P&LE but they were not peaked. Nice photo!