Ron, The original B&O series 135000 to 135999 were 4-bay coke cars class W-1 built in 1911. The second series B&O 135800 to 135999, B&O/C&O Class H-5, were ex-C&O off-set twin hoppers built between

I guess that ton of bricks landed on it like, well, a ton of bricks... Thanks for posting the link, Shawn. It's cool to see a photo merging two of my interests so neatly. That quake caused a

In the Pentrex video/CD on Great Northern, there is a scene with a Northern Pacific stock car that appears to be truss rod and its lower half of the body is lime white. Gary Laakso in Florida, south

So, average the two to get the volume between the angled ends. I get 4,069 Cu.Ft. Looks like the floor was flat, and the slope sheets don't meet the original ends quite at the roof, which would acount

Joe Piersen of the CNWHS asked me to look for information on the following cars. Some of these found a second home on the C&NW please see if anybody on the freight car group has any

Clark the C&NW/CMO had AAR standard offset twins. Atlas and Athearn make models of this prototype. I think Athearn's car has the end supports going to the top of the sides, while the Atlas supports go

I wonder if P.E. had any use for a coke car? Scott Pitzer

Please take a look at the hoppers in this article http://www.cnwhs.org/modeling.htm And advice me on what would make a good HO model. I know the article is after this groups time frame, but the cars

Very impressive how the sides & ends remained relatively intact while the roof above them was totally crushed. Tom Madden

Tim GIlbert said: David Smith replied: That would be true if the slope sheets went to the roof, however they may not have. So, given, say X% height for the top end of the slope sheets, that would

List, One of the latest photos on the L.A. Public Library web site shows a building and boxcar damaged in the March, 1933 earthquake in Long Beach. The boxcar appears to be

And the capacity of the trapezoidal space created by slope sheets at the two ends would be IH*((ILbottom+ILtop)/2)*IW = 4070 cu. ft. (rounding off). So, there's a little extra space (from peaked

All (esp. Mssrs. Gilbert and Nelson), I recently had the good fortune to be able to visit Baker Library at Harvard University, where I got a look at the railroad interchange data published by H. H.

I remember the Kar-Line boxcars as being built-up, but it has been 45 years since I've been in HO so I may have had kits as well. Charlie Vlk

With the ridge running parlalel to the center sill? Phil Buchwald

What is the possibility that CN did not use white paint but white wash instead. White wash is a slurry made from water and lime and then painted on. I remember "helping" my grandfather whitewash his

Dennis Storzek wrote: IL - 39' 11" to 50' 6" IW - 9' IH - 10' Cubic Capacity using IL 39' 11" - 3,592.5 Feet Cubic Capacity using IL 50' 6" - 4,545 Feet Cubic Capacity as per 4/61/1961 ORER - 4,160

Bolt heads of course. My bad. Would using big bolts be another reason there needn't be many? Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

But there is no reason that there can't be a double pitched "A" frame type affair on top of the existing floor to send the chips out the side doors. Someone should calculate the cubical capacity from

Add Emery Gulash. He passed away on Friday. Randy for