Garth Groff wrote: "In Henderson's CLASSIC FREIGHT CARS two volumes on 40' boxcars there are several shots of Vermont Railway and Green Mountain Railway boxcars, some of which were inherited from

Jeff: Sounds right. I recall seeing them in central Indiana in late 1950's and early 1960's on both the NKP and MONON. They stood out. Mont Switzer

Jeff, Ed and Friends: In Henderson's CLASSIC FREIGHT CARS two volumes on 40' boxcars there are several shots of Vermont Railway and Green Mountain Railway boxcars, some of which were inherited from

Hi All, During what years were the Pennsy Journal published (start to finish)? Does anyone have PRR F39 drawings? I would like at least a general arrangement drawing. Was there ever an accurate

Ed's information pretty well sums it up. The cars were not acquired for a specific service but for general service in the nationwide pool. Therefore they would be likely to be seen anywhere, but

Brian, Rutland had 100 cars built 1956 in series 200-299 with 7' door openings. This followed 100 cars from three earlier orders built 1954 and 1955, series 100-199. In 8-56 Rutland added another 101

All- From retired Tacoma Division Night Chief Jim Fredrickson: Shorts is freight train terminology for cars on the initial part of the run of a train. For example Number 640 was grouped as follows

The Glen Burn Mine at Shemokin (sp) PA was in the 80 a tourist mine. They would take you up into the mine. We were told that you can not shut down a mine if you plan to open it again. Why? WATER. The

Kalmbach's transition era picture book "Milwaukee Road in its Hometown" has a photo of a pair of D&H hoppers (with nice, big round "100 years of anthracite service" heralds on them) being

Can anyone recommend an expert on early C&EI cars? The one email address I can find on the HS site does not respond. - Al Westerfield

Ted, This is sort of nit-picky, however the prototype photo in the link you sent shows poling pockets while the model has none. Was this a prototype variation, or a model inaccuracy? Thanks again

I have 2 of the Kadee PS-1 boxcars, 248,294 built 3-56. I only have a 1955 ORER so how many of these cars did the Rutland have anyway, and how far traveled were they? Were they purchased with any

Chuck Yungkurth wrote: And here I'd just said that the mines didn't stop mining during the summer. OK, Chuck was there; I wasn't. But OTOH, there WAS a huge coal storage operation at Coalberg NJ

Ed Mines asked: Ed, the mines didn't stop mining during the summer. It had to go somewhere. On the DL&W it went in large part to Coalberg, NJ. (In this case, read 'berg" as the German "Mountain,'"

Chuck Yungkurth... wrote: anthracite region were crammed with empty hoppers every summer. (We kids loved it because all the stored cars made great playgounds) The mines would shut down with large

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Note that early C&O 1937 spec. AAR box cars had Viking corrugated roofs; the first C&O cars of this design with Murphy panel steel roofs were the 10000-11999 series

Steve - HO scale decals for the Q's LO-1 series Airslides are available from me. These are for the cars built in 1954 and 1955 and numbered 87000-87299. The prototype cars were gray with black

Ron, sounds like we are pretty much together. Richard advised that these cars had ASF A-3 ride control roller beraing trucks so I'll get some Katos. Are you going to put on the end crossover

Anthracite mining did not stop completely during the summer but it went down drastically. All the anthracite roads had some coal storage facilities such as Coalburg (LV at Ransom PA, D&H just

I'm working on one of these cars now. I'd second the idea of narrowing the Cal-Scale parts for the underframe between the trucks so they come out the same width as the current non-cushioned