Thanks Richard. So that is an excellent spotting feature to recognize a pre-1917 multi-dome rebuild tank car! :-) Tim

No guesswork necessary. It was definitely a 6,500 gal. Type V (the smallest of both the Type V and Type X cars were 6,500 gal., not 6,000 gal.). The internal diaphragms were even riveted into

Note that this car was built - and probably converted to a three compartment car - before the 1917 tank car specs. were adopted by the ARA. The intermediate rivet courses were in exactly the same

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At least through mid-1926, but changed to SUNX by 3/28. Richard Hendrickson

Bill McCoywrote: This fits exactly with what retired PFE people told me in interviews for the PFE book: the receivers of produce typically left all the spoiled or unsold produce right in the

A friend of mine was a clerk for the RF&P in the tower at Potomac Yard. Droves of empty vent boxes came back south returing to the SAL and ACL at Richmond and were humped into the classification bowl.

Remind me next week after Naperville.

Thanks, Al! I have never seen a pic (or in person) one of those C&O cars, only the later Evans cars. Elden Gatwood

Hi y'all, The Amarillo Railroad Museum and the Missouri Pacific Historical Society are pleased to announce that the third run of ART ice reefers produced for us by InterMountain will be arriving

No ... the V-9 (SAL 28000-29249 and 89000-89899) and V-10 (SAL 79000-79999) ventilators were 36' double-sheathed wood cars. See Goolsby in Lines South, 1st/98, pp 22-25. Sunshine kit 21.23 models 40'

Richard, Want to hazard a guess if it's a 6, 8, or 10,000 gallon car? If it's a 6,000 gal, it would be an interesting conversion for the Blackstone Models frameless NG car that has supposedly been

Bill, The unofficial Sunshine Models list provided by Jim Hayes shows that kit no. 21.23, SAL Express Ventilator A.R.A 1932 boxcar is still available. Would this kit be either the V-9 or the V-10

The majority of 3-dome tank car photos I have show two rivet seams between each pair of domes where the interior bulkheads are attached -- Yet a couple of them show (like this car) only a single rivet

Armand Why not wish for CORRECTED kits of popular freight cars? Like fix the execrable roofs on the Intermountain 1940 AAR box cars? Or fix the doors on the Intermountain postwar 10'0" 12 panel box

I keep seeing many calls for the AAR alt std offset hoppers. We've been clamoring for those even longer than we've been howling for at one version of the G31! :-) Tim O'

Tony An even better suggestion for Intermountain would be to toss their awful Type 27 underframe and start over! :-) But IRC is loathe to fix a model once it's in production. Tim O'Connor

Bill Welch wrote Sounds like a great idea for a mini-kit Bill! (Several, if the platforms come in different styles.) How about a mini-kit to build a replace underframe (with open grid walks) for the

Steve, that is a UTL Van Dyke tank (note the heavy bottom sheet with the stub center sills and draft gear pockets still attached) that had been converted to a three compartment car, as attested by