Some shots on E-bay of interest tonight: - COSX 823 and partial view of an automobile boxcar - auction 200246244737 and 200265616565 - some machines for tracking freight cars - what's the story?

Westerfield is working on a kit for a HO scale model of the 50 ton Summers ore car - used by DSS&A, Soo, DM&N, D&IR (later DM&IR). Cyril Durrenberger

Curt, Lot 8362, 52500-52749 (52000-52499 were twin PS-3s built in 1953). Regards, Ed Hawkins

Anyone know the Pullman Standard Job # for the CRR PS-3 3 bay hoppers; 52000 series, built 1958? Curt Fortenberry

I'm curious as to whether southwestern Ontario was an exceptional case to the "standard" distribution ratios given for the US as a whole and Canada as a whole, given the presence of the CASO/NYC and

While I will admit that I am somewhat glad that Walthers is producing these 70 ton cars, I really keep hoping that someone would mass-produce a 50 ton steel ore car, a much more common car in the

Hi Brian, I'll have to check the original drawings when I return home next weekend. For last week and this I'm looking at scanned (and poorly at that) images of the drawings from my current

Bob - The Erie car was built by Pressed Steel Car Co. circa 1902. I have the builder's photo but can't locate it at the moment. It was a standard design they used for about 3 years. The trucks are

More info on the M&St.L cars here: http://www.midcontinent.org/collectn/woodfrt/mstl4570.html Dennis

Note the NH cars were equipped with 8 1/2 x 10 Not true. Although it's interesting that NH stenciled a 120000 Capy on the cars, if you add the LdLmt and LtWt the sum is 169,000 lbs., which means

Greetings all; please pardon the cross-posting; Well, the dust has settled and we are all back at our regularly scheduled tasks, etc. I just wanted to once again say thanks to all for a great

http://www.yorkhistorical.org/Greigsviille/FromBarbItem4GreigsvilleFeedM the The Iowa Central had box cars that were quite similar to the ERIE car pictured in that they, too, had Fox trucks, a pressed

Nice pic, thanks! 52ft flat car, class F-50-14, only 2 or 3 years old when that photo was taken. Tim O'Connor

I found an image of an SP flat car with a load of very large barrels on a site featuring historic photos from Livermore, CA. The image is described as follows: "Livermore Barrel Factory (Canton

Here is an image of an Erie box car parked along side the Greigsville Feed Mill in the town of York, New York. There's no date on the picture but this looks to be a bit before the jet age. Would

Craig Meyers is on the Carolina rails group and the piedmontandnorthernrr group. He might provide some of what you are hunting. Mike Turner Simpsonville, SC

Brian (and Walter) Ed's correct, the production of 30000-30999 lasted at least from July to September '41. Cars repainted and renumbered into the 36000- series ca. 1955 were not renumbered

Well...I didn't include the ADMIN so here it is again: Bob Edmonson writes: "I am looking for a good home for my collection of Mainline Modeler magazines, from 1980 to 2002. It is not a complete

ed_mines wrote: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Roads varied. Sometimes yes, but I have seen photos of very matte fresh coatings. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

Bob Edmonson writes: "I am looking for a good home for my collection of Mainline Modeler magazines, from 1980 to 2002. It is not a complete set. I have 123 magazines total." "Email me offline, and I