Larry, The Prototype Trade Show is open to the public from 11 am to 6 pm on Saturday, Oct. 27 in the Holiday Inn's Ballroom (use west entrance). Only $5 for non-attendees. Brian Leppert Carson City,

The schedule has seminars on Saturday starting at 9 am to noon and 1pm to 5:30pm and then 7 to 10pm. With Vendor sales starting at 9 am too. Sunday has "cash breakfast and roundtables" listed as

I have a schedule for the Naperville Prototype Modelers Seminar. It lists Thursday and Friday as days for clinics and seminars. All that is listed for Saturday is the Prototype Sales Show. There

Richard Brennan wrote: Yes, my friend who worked at a cannery in Orange County said the same--those were called "field boxes." They were quite different than the one-time-use retail shipping

As I recall... these had ends almost 3/4in thick... often with hand holds. Non-retail fruit "lugs" (i.e used to send fruit -to- the cannery) were the same... Heavy Duty. -------------------- Richard

Al Brown wrote: They weren't for one-time use like fruit and vegetable crates. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Since we were discussing wooden boxes a little while back, note the huge pile of wooden beer cases. These were more heavily constructed than fruit boxes. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Larry Ostresh wrote: Prior to the Master Car Builders being folded into the ARA in 1919, all this was under the direction of the MCB or the Association of Transportation and Car Accounting

It looks like a roll (4 ft.?) of paper standing on end in the lower left corner. Rob Simpson wrote: with cloth or paper. I assume the use of a liner was typical. Can anyone tell me more about the

Thanks for the tip -- that's a good way to browse photos. I couldn't resist this one -- Grain Belt Beer!! http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/fsa/8a04000/8a04800/8a04878r.jpg Tim O'Connor

I mentioned that the Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line, Seaboard Air Line, Southern, Wabash, and Western Pacific were not listed as having "official" reporting marks in the 1949 and 1953 ORERs.

Mr. Chaparro, Linings were sometimes used for other commodities as well. I have corresponded with an ex-GN trainmaster who told me that in times of extreme shortages of suitable boxcars, the GN

Jack, Have no experience with this type of lining. Might be some kind of Kraft paper stapled in place.. Boxcar does not have an internal ceiling, not that unusual. I can tell you that commodities

Larry Ostresh wrote: Obviously you weren't required to have an "official assignment" to use a mark, at least if you were a railroad predating the ARA/AAR. If you check the list Larry describes

At the image site, click Bibliographic Info at the top. On that page, click Display Neighboring Call Numbers to see the adjacent frames on the roll (I think). KL

It is a box car. Both doors are open and the flour mill has put the paper into the car. Has nothing to do with the car itself. I saw this all the time at the mill I worked in. Thank you Larry

The liners has nothing to do with the car. It is old paper and etc that the flour mill put in to the car for their load. It will be removed when the car is unloaded and cleaned out. Thank you Larry

My first reaction is that it isn't a box car although the caption says that it is. The door and ceiling look more like a building.... Jack Burgess www.yosemitevalleyrr.com

I found the image in the link below in the Library of Congress website. It shows sacks of flour being loaded into a boxcar. http://tinyurl.com/yu5e48 What struck me was that the inside of the car

Hi Folks Why doesn't the Union Pacific have reporting marks? It doesn't appear to have "official" ones, anyway. The ORER for April 1949 has two pages (710 and 711) with the title "Association of