On the Yakima Valley Transportation Co. they had 14 wood flat cars aquired in 1909 and 1910. When the connection to the Cascade Lumber Co. sawmill in Yakima was made they would ship box shook from

Andy Miller wrote: "I have been asked to paint an Athearn wood sheathed reefer for my club. This is the 40' HO model with a 12' running board height and a dreadnaught steel end." Don't you mean

The CB&Q SM-19C cars were built by Havelock Shops in Nov and Dec of 1962. They have Stanray Diagonal Panel Roofs and 4/5 Improved Dreadnaught ends. The N Scale Lima car has the same arrangement of

I have been asked to paint an Athearn wood sheathed reefer for my club. This is the 40' HO model with a 12' running board height and a dreadnaught steel end. Does anyone know of a prototype or near

The Lima N Scale stock car, like all the Lima N freight cars except the Bay Window Caboose, was fudged to fit on a common 45'.underframe. It actually looks very much like the CB&Q 50' stockcar

A response to my oriiginal question on another site brought the following comment on how the McCloud River Railroad handled a box car shortage many years ago. Bob Chaparro Hemet,

On Jul 21, 2008, at 8:15 AM, John Golden wrote: Also, I don't know what "closed" box car means but I'll assume > (there's that word again) that it's just a plain old box car. Maybe > Ed or

For those of you contemplating purchasing some of these trucks, let me add that I am also selling these to members of this list. The price for the truck sideframes, less wheelsets, are $3.00/pair

A flyer for Tahoe Model Works's newest offering, an HO scale "Buckeye A.R.A 50-Ton Truck" is now available. Anyone wishing an e-mailed copy, please contact me off list at b.leppert@.... Your

While not related to box shook, the research I have been doing on the Yakima Valley Transportation Co. shows a lot of inbound shipments of "Lug Boxes" from various locations in the Pacific Northwest

Hi Brian, Sorry for the late reply but I'm in Little Rock for three weeks and my WiFi quit the other day, so I'm down to sharing the billeting office computer. Real quick, everything depends on what

Someone at the National Train Show took several images of the new Funaro & Camerlengo HO scale box car. This is a PRR rebuild of the USRA single sheathed cars. Several images

Stan's parts list can also be found at my website www.sunshinekits.com <http://www.sunshinekits.com/> . Look on the Links page. Then click on Resin Parts, Stan's "business" name. Since Stan does not

Folks, As a similar subject: How did bushel baskets come into orchards, farms, and peanut plantations to go out in ventilated box cars? Al Kresse

Folks, As a matter interest: Where did the name "shook" come from relative to wooden shipping box kits? Al Kresse

Bob, I do not have any actual data to answer you questions, but can add a bit of comment regarding question #2... I doubt if there was a requirement for maintaining any open floor space within

Here are a couple of questions about loading box shook, the wood used to make boxes and crates. I'm particularly interested in the answers as they apply to citrus packing crates. 1. How high would

Andrew Martin wrote: My understanding is that Google Books download is restricted to the U.S. because of copyright law in different countries. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

Storey Lindsay wrote: "You can't download the books if you are outside the U.S." Would someone be able to point me to a resource that would allow me to download the book in PDF format? As a "damned

Tonight was Seaboard boxcar night. Going thru the ORER data I came across some interesting things (interesting to me anyway). First there is Seaboard boxcar 20053, 40'-6" boxcar and an 8'x8' IH, and a