I’m suspect this is a building related to byproducts from Swift. Note the many Swift Wool Soap signs. There are burlap sacks under the loading dock, perhaps containing wool. The building next door

Thank you for the additional information, Tony. Gifts of information like this are what makes this collection of modelers the best, in my opinion. Todd Sullivan

Todd Sullivan wrote: Not ordinarily, unless hot cargoes were expected. Magnesite was more common, and fiberglass batts were used too. Lots of photos of both at AC&F. But Todd's point is that

Found the National Stocktard for Jacksonville FL in one of the Sanborns for the city, see attached

 Hi Bob, Great image you found there! I especially like the two wildly disparate types of end-of-track bumpers that are right next to one another. Claus Schlund

That's a cool photo, but the library's guess as to the date (1935) is way off. The lettering scheme on the second car is pre-WWI, and the cars are not SAA-compliant. I'd say 1910-15, possibly

For some reason the little frame building with the brick chimney reminds me of a paper barbershop sold by Carsten's decades ago in a book of paper buildings you could cut out and assemble. That really

I should have noted this was a model. Sorry. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Swift & Company Shed A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll21/id/3846/rec/102 Click on the double-headed arrow and then

Second photo is a model. Or is Bob having a joke here?? Tom Madden

Photos: Staley Tank Cars Photos from the Decatur Herald & Review: AESX 355 (Built 1920) https://tinyurl.com/y7ec64kp AESX 628 https://tinyurl.com/ycemkfdo Click photo to enlarge. Bob

A new YouTube video has just been released and this one is on a Proto48 weed burner that I built some years ago. Not actually a freight car but you might find some interesting tips, etc. It is at:

Well that's unfortunate, but I might pick up a few anyway as filler, or look for the Bowser kit. Currently I'm on the hunt for TLT 8 Hatch Reefers, and I'm hoping Atlas bought the tooling

How about Mount Vernon Shops?

Maybe. I suspect Rapido would question the viability of producing any Canadian design car that primarily existed in the steam-only era given the struggles to sell their Canadian steam locos - a clear

If I recall correctly (a big if), wasn't anthracite used as carbon filtration in water plants? If so, fuel was not the only need for northeast hoppers far afield. Chuck Peck

A lot of western coal was shipped in boxcars on CP. Prairie towns had coal merchants’ bins with the trackside loading bins even with a boxcar floor and the coal was shovelled into them. OCS coal for

It looks to me like Rapido is aiming for the modernized PRR version (higher rivet row for the sides of the hopper bays, and inboard top eave angle), while the Bowser car is a post-Safety Appliances

Honestly that's what I love any modeling Vancouver, you have 4 US railways that interchange with you, and several shortlines plus the Kettle Valley/ E&N subdivisions that connected at Hope/Vancouver

Coal usually went out of North Vancouver or Burnaby iirc