Also old crankcase oil to be returned to the refinery for reprocessing. Lloyd Keyser

Thanks Chuck. I've done some SRR 50 footers as well. The early 50 footers were 10'-0" IH and the SR had 12 ft doors, go figure.-- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC

Fenton, Fantastic job on the ACL DD boxcar. Love the double rivet lines. I will be looking forward to the article. Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM

The Santa Fe Sk-H, I, K, L, N, and P classes were built with Caswell drop bottoms and roof hatches. There were several thousand of them. As Garth says, they were primarily designed to allow hauling

The Shake 'n' Take group has done this a number of times. Check their archives. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

The X in front of the number would seem to indicate a company service car. As such, it likely carried kerosene for lanterns, engine lubricants of various sorts, journal oil, and other such supplies

Bruce & Garth - Thanks for the info. This is a car type I don't know a lot about (hauling livestock was not a priority on the Seaboard - they had less than 50 stock cars in the early 50s). Glad to

Ken, It's not that difficult to make your own steel sides with Evergreen sheet styrene, especially now with Archer rivets. This one was interesting as it has two rows of rivets per panel. I've done

Bill, I can't speak about 19th century cars, but in the early 20th century there were some large blocks of "convertible" cars that could do double-duty, perhaps to make some money on the back hauls.

Ken Adams asked:"Are there any articles dealing with the upgrading to DD steel sided 40 foot cars and how to model them?" The 2019 Cocoa Beach Shake 'N Take project detailed the Intermountain 40 ft

Bill, It's mostly an early thing, and allowed the stock to be fed and watered from the roof. It mostly went away when the stock transportation rules began to require resting stock after so many hours,

Prior to reading this thread and looking at the pictures, I was unaware that stock cars had hatches on their roofs. Other than for loading bulk commodities like shown here, what were these hatches

With my peculiar attachment to DD 40 foot auto/box cars, this would be an interesting project. I have just received the Yarmouth D&RGW 40 foot DD box car and it is now in the TBB queue. I found EFC

can anyone identify what an oil car was? and why a separate classification? thanks mel perry

Garth Thank you. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

That is called snow. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

I miss seeing the fall colors around Chicago during the RPM. Scott McDonald

Doug and friends, Don't forget that the WP also loaded beets. WP's steel 46' GS gondolas were used for beet traffic. According to Jim Eager's WESTERN PACIFIC COLOR GUIDE, beets were loaded at Gerlach,

Agreed. It's a MUST-DO in '21. Bill Jolitz

Tom here is where the photo comes from. https://www.chieftain.com/article/20090329/NEWS/303299970 The information may or may not be correct. I agree the dump is not like any I’ve seen. Reminds me