Sunshine made and Fe-26 but unfortunately it was discontinued. Wish I'd gotten one when they were available. The riveted fishbelly side sill made it stand out. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon _____

Garth, the SJ&GI was a wholly-owned UP subsidiary and its equipment was listed under the UP in the ORERs (as was the equipment of the O- WR&N, OSL, and LA&SL). Richard Hendrickson

Armand Premo wrote: "So Ben from wheel reports, how about these for starters? TNO 58000 Class A-50-7 50 ft SS automobile boxcar built 1924, Murphy radial roof. Starting point would be the Funaro &

In the mid-1970's I remember gondolas in scrap service seemed to be in the worse shape in regards to trying to read the car initial/numbers. Old tankcars also feel into this problem too. I remember

Tim, A very cool photo. Thanks for sharing it with us. Did you notice that the car with the two men sitting on it is from the St. Joseph & Grand Island? That has to be even rarer than the UP

CISOROOT=/Savage&CISOPTR=1182&DMSCALE=100&DMWIDTH=3600&DMHEIGHT=2600&D MX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=20&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0 Looking at the locomotive road number plastered across the tender, I will have to

From the C.R. Savage collection at

Santa Fe FE-26 class, 40" double door cars were equipped with Evans loaders during the 40s and they were removed during the 50s, as the cars were transferred to auto parts shipping, etc. A model of

Hi Jim, Could you post it by First Class Mail International, please. cheers Dave

using which emerge It took a while to get this image posted: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/photos/browse/a08b It shows the common ways of placing cars within a box car during the pre-WWII

Guy Wilber wrote: "And, yes, the utilization of Evans Auto-Loaders would help to expedite the use of taller cars, but there were enough installations into 10' IH cars to disprove the notion that the

Armand Premo wrote: "So Ben from wheel reports, how about these for starters? UP 475300 UP 475000-475499, Class A-50-19, built 1947. Starting point would be a C&BT postwar double-door boxcar model

In a message dated 6/19/2008 3:00:20 PM Central Daylight Time, jaguar66@... writes: It shows the common ways of placing cars within a box car during the pre-WWII period. The image is from

Ben Hom replied to There is a photo of NYC 88429 at the Canada Southern site from the Jay Williams collection that looks similar to the Lot 738-B at:

Hmmmm... Seems a Branchline 8' door 40' undec with a set of our double doors and a new side sill would work too... I might try that...! Thanks Ben, Bill Schneider c>onfirm the ends and roof, but

Armand Premo asked: "Actually I was looking for a more or less generic 40 footer that could be easily kit bashed for several roads." An alternate that will require more work but is the Athearn

Bruce Smith wrote: "Interestingly, at least on the PRR, the cars with end doors were 50' or longer (X33, X33a, X38a, X40c)" Not entirely true. Class X25A had end doors. Ben Hom

Armand, The end door automobile cars were definitely a minority of the population and I doubt that many of them were also equipped with auto loaders (although I note that the X40c shown at http://

In a message dated 6/19/2008 8:46:27 AM Central Daylight Time, smithbf@... writes: That made these cars useful for delivery of larger vehicles such as the fire trucks Elden mentioned for

In a message dated 6/18/2008 9:42:47 AM Central Daylight Time, b.hom@... writes: This was obviously extremely inefficient; the development of the Evans Auto Loader doubled the