Very interesting photo. The photo doesn't give a location. But I would guess it is not Omaha in the winter. I like the long shop truck in the foreground and the stacked air brake reservoirs and other

OK, I see that an ACR side has a secondary smaller mid-panel rib, secured with rivets spaced at double the spacing for the main ribs/panel joints. So once again, what is the term for the rivet

Note that it’s an ACR side, with the light angles between the main posts. The assembled car at left is too. Tony Thompson tony@...

STMFC, My apologies for replying to the STMFC instead of forwarding the message to my friend Bill, who I know has been working on a model of this general type. Regards, Ed Hawkins

Bill, Dan Smith says to follow this!!! Ed

Group, A very good look at the inside of an ACR boxcar side and how it's constructed. https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Union-Pacific/UP-Freight-Cars/i-bgD2NbD/A Dan Smith

Rubberized Livestock Car Slats (1956) Article with photos from Don Strack’s UtahRails Website: https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Union-Pacific/UP-Freight-Cars/i-RjP4tmh/A From Railway Age,

https://www.ebay.com/itm/384203161995?hash=item59744b018b:g:n90AAOSw3mpguURf Thanks, Clark Propst

Brian, Attached is C&I for Jan. 1956. The left edge is tight in the gutter & difficult to push down flat. Ed Hawkins

Can anyone provide scans or images of the C&I ORER pages for 1955 and 1956. Don't need ever issue just one per year. Thanks Brian Carlson Cheektowaga NY

The other possibility is it was used as a parts bucket to support the other cars Roger Hinman

Dear group I am looking for information on the underframe construction of the ART's post 1924 steel underframe 41' reefers Drawings, photos, wreck photos,etc would all be welcome. I do already have

Hi Brian, I tried to reach out to you offline a couple of times, but I kept getting an error message stating "the address couldn't be found or is unable to receive mail". Obviously it could be me,

Ray and friends, Nevada Northern? Try these. Sorry for the low quality, but I was only about 15 years old at the time and just learning how to use a camera. Kennecott Copper also used these cars at

Here is an ebay listing for that bus should anyone want to try and model this type of scene, https://www.ebay.com/itm/373600896284?hash=item56fc59451c:g:GfYAAOSwbidgtwjw Dan Smith

Very interesting photograph/car. Were there other railroads that made similar modification to hopper cars?

These cars are cut down from the NYC System version of the 1905 Common Design twin hopper. The build date of 9-10 suggests an origin in CCC&StL 75000-75499 built on AC&F Lot 5703. David Thompson

From the mid 1930s on, the Midland Terminal RR of Colorado began building a collection of second hand steel hopper and gondola cars to replace their aged fleet of wood cars. Among these cars were

Many thanks, Roger. That 21st car makes me wonder if PGE number 807 was to have been used for that car but, for some reason, they never showed it in the “Equipment Record” book. At some point, I

Just realized the broadside photo didn’t come through. Here is one from the side, and another with the shorter CB&Q car I did a while ago. Not the HO 1’ height difference I wanted, but there is