Paul, John Nehrich has published such a guide through the RPI Club. I will leave it to you and Google to come up with a citation. I will note two things: 1) Not everyone on this list will

these NKP of them!) Ray - I read the 4/1948 ORER data and the NKP diagrams for the NKP#30750- #31749 series of composite cars together to conclude that (391) hoppers in this series still had wood

Thanks to Richard Hendrickson the ATSF is now over 99% Known. Here is its summary

The Nickel Plate scrapped and/or sold off SEVERAL thousand boxcars during at least two Depression-era equipment purges. At least half of their 38 foot DS boxcars and 42' DS auto cars were gone by

Ray - Thank you for the information on the NKP double sheathed boxcars with corrugated ends which might have been used as slope sheets on these hopper cars. Did they scrap 1,000 of them during the

Yes. Both Chicago-Cleveland (Vulcan) and Union Metal Products (Murphy) made corrugated ends with the corrugations pressed both inward and outward. Outward corrugations outnumbered inward ones in

See if I understand this. We have examples of vertically and horizontally corrugated ends called "Vulcan", and vertically and horizontally corrugated ends called "Murphy". What about inward vs outward

Yeah... the first reference I found to a "Vulcan end" was a comment regarding it being "almost indistinguishable from" a Murphy end (IIRC) of some sort - this was on the Rensselaer site. So initially

In my continuing research of the FGE/WFE/BRE consortium, I have been fortunate to borrow an almost complete collection of the group's quarterly employee magazine "Teamwork" from a retired employee,

Tony, Well, I don't think so. The cars involved were CB&Q 100ton hoppers built by Bethlehem Steel in '63 and '64. Something in my brain connects the dots with lube intervals but it's been a long time

Bob, Thanks for those tidbits of info. Completely nothing? I know in later years the P&N's non-interchanged cars were listed in the ORER, but perhaps in 1941 none of the online-use cars were listed?

Frank, The P&N was adversely affected during the Depression, particularly the on-line cotton trade. The original need for automobile boxes had also diminished. The 1939 AC&Y transaction was

Interesting, Dean. How 'bout RB Fox trucks? Conrail had (has?) a snowplow so equipped. SGL

were to listed W&LE them. Those odd W&LE boxes lasted longer than you would think: Ray Breyer sent me a photo of NKP MOW X56215, still with that 7' wood door. A couple of years ago, I took many

Al - I made a mistake! WLE was a separate road from NKP when the photo in the Kline/Culotta book was taken (1947). You are correct - the composite cars and the ugly panel side cars are both NKP

When the "Blue Streak" herald was first introduced before World War II it was entirely white, as on the P2K model which represents a car as built in the early 1940s. The blue lightning bolt was

Hi A.T. -- That story is a new one on me, and looking at Larry and Ted's book I'm not sure which cars you mean. Neither of the W&LE hoppers shown has panel sides. NKP 32000-32149 have broad panel