Way to take one for the team, Ben! Richard Townsend Lincoln City, Oregon

Tim, The NP reefers in the 91500-91999 series had 6 foot door openings but no plug door. They had a normal hinged swing type door with the left door hinged to another section creating a 6 foot

This type of door was used on the MDT 14000 and NRC 20000 series cars built by PCF in 1958 also. Roger Hinman

PFE and NP bought cars with these combination swing-plug doors -- the PFE class was R-40-28. Tony Thompson probably can tell you the logic behind the doors. It was not repeated on subsequent

I noticed the unusual (to me) door arrangement on the PFE reefer (PFE 11303) pictured on the following link: http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=26183 The door appears to be a

I would agree with CJ, having lived in the Pgh area for some time when I was younger; I wonder if anyone was tasked with cleaning out gons. There was no such thing as an empty gon. Every one I ever

Ed Mines wrote: "The fall HistoricRail catalog lists a "new" 55-Ton 2-Bay Fishbelly hopper (LV, p.2 7) with die cast underframe and slope sheets. My recollection is that the Stewart car had a plastic

Ted, I would have to say just the opposite. Now just about every large business has dumpsters scattered all around their property. Before the "Dumpster Era" empty gons were the standard

Hi Folks Here are the revised DS/SS/Steel splits, 1945, and 1950, for box and auto cars in interchange service on the ATSF, with data provided by Richard Hendrickson added in. Thank you, Richard,

You may be able to find it at an auto parts store, since that shade is still preferred for "rat rods". CJ Riley --- pierreoliver2003 <pierre.oliver@...>

Class Fe-13, rebuilt as steel sheathed cars in 1937, modified during WW II with extended roofs for aircraft and auto parts service. Class Fe-15, rebuilt as steel sheathed cars in 1937, modified

Just to clarify, NYC's system of identifying freight cars by lot number was not, strictly speaking, a classification system. There are many examples of identical cars with different lot

In the 1950s SL-SF freight car diagram book I have, there is no reference to a system of car class symbols. The word CLASS: appears on each diagram, but what follows it is actually a brief

Frank Valoczy asked whether SLSF, C&O or WM used freight car classification systems. I can't speak about the SLSF or WM, but according to Carl Shaver's book "Freight Car Equiptment of the C&O Rwy.

Hi Folks Here are the DS/SS/Steel splits, 1945 and 1950, for box and auto cars in interchange service on the ATSF. January

So I've done a bit of 'quick' research, and have started putting together a list of roads using in-house freight car classification systems. Following is the list of the RRs I've found classification

When I worked in the fabricating shops of Levinson Steel (Pittsburgh) one summer in the '60s, There was considerable crap in every car I helped to load. I have also seen high angle photos of open cars

Those brackets are excellent!! I hope there are extras in the box.... :-) http://f9g.yahoofs.com/groups/g_hr_2554753/9bc5/__hr_/ae23.jpg?grgwrDHB9k2qszec Tim O'

Bill, All your fine detail work makes that handbrake look like it came off an old blue box Athearn car. Very nice stuff! Clark Propst

With the aid of Mike Brock. I have posted photos showing the photoetch details that will come with the Sunshine Models plywood and T&G reefers built by FGE/WFE/BRE in 1942 and 1944. These are in the