Photo: Wilson Reefer 9272 A photo from the Penney Vanderbilt And KC Jones website: https://penneyandkc.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/maybrook_yard_005.jpg According to the January 1955 Equipment

Photo: Unloading Grain A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/6696/rec/31 Click on the arrows and scroll on

Photo: Oregon Fish & Game Commission Hatchery Transport Car Photo courtesy of Taylor Rush on the Facebook Early Rails Group. https://tinyurl.com/yn9kh4f8 His comment: “An interior shot of the

I'm also a little late to the party on can loading in boxcars. The Ahnapee & Western in Wisconsin had customers that received cans in bulk. Evangeline Milk Company produced condensed milk for First

I’m coming late to the party here, but just another tidbit. At one time they did actually stack the cans loose in rows inside the box cars. I don’t know when that practice may have ended but the

Otto… This is a great time to visit/hike the Merced River area. This is from a few years ago: Jack Burgess

Interesting. I thought there was an icing platform down there somewhere, but if you look at the bottom of that photo, just left of center, there is a string of reefers with their hatches open and a

Lol, Jack, you wisely chose to model the YV before the railroad was abandoned not too many years later😁 I’ve always admired your work, and the YV, but never more than during our very recent trip

Seems a Reading XMu class box has made an appearance. William Dale

Resin Car Works offers 3D printed Klasing brake wheels. Check out their web site. Nelson Moyer

I also note the Klasing brake wheel. I wish Kadee had a reason to do those. :-) Tim O'Connor On 4/18/2021 4:44 PM, Claus Schlund wrote: --

Why yes, I’d be pleased to take that fire escape on the building to the right. 8^O !1 Schuyler

As noted previously by both Dennis and Bruce there are indeed aft lines securing the tug to the barges; the port aft line is visible in this view taken moments before. Also visible in this view is a

On 4/26/2021 9:09 AM, Allen Cain wrote: Yes, they went off line. Here is a one car Union Pacific transfer job in Kansas City in 1953. -- Tim

Nice web site! Here's a 1926 photo that's not included on the web page. On 4/26/2021 9:06 AM, Ray Hutchison wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Thanks Johannes… I have read (I think) that equipment was much dirtier after the war because of deferred maintenance during the war. I wisely chose to model the YV before the war started!

Thanks to all who answered. On 26/04/2021 12:12 p.m., Douglas Harding wrote: -- Colin Riley20-2500 Florence Lake RoadVictoria BC V9B 4H2

Friends, Fitzhugh-Luther was more than just a reseller. They built new freight cars, and sometimes in modest quantities. In 1907 F-L supplied California's Northern Electric Railway with 50 36' boxcars

Clarence, Given that the photographer’s notes are “Grain elevators alongside piles of materials at port” I think you are spot on and the archive misinterpreted that to be piles of grain.

Please check the 1955 Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) for Fort Dodge , Des Moines & Southern (FtDDM&S or FDDM&S) for , class VS, of series 932 - 946 (evens) on the roster. I have the 1955