Photos: Loading Or Unloading A Milk Car (1947) Photos from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

Photo: Unidentified PRR Gondola (1929) A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/mke-polonia/id/33889/rec/115 Click on the

I use a rattle can of Rust-Oleum Automobile, #2089 Dark Gray Primer, with no grit blasting; sometimes I wipe the trucks with Isopropyl alcohol before applying the paint. Jim Brewer

Hi all, When I was in H.S. I worked in a salmon cannery. Our cans all came to us fully made up (no lid) in large cardboard boxes of perhaps 1000 cans at a time. The box was the size of a pallet on

Paul, many thanks to you too! Nice pic of an attractive paint scheme, but as you already may have seen, Tim O'Connor sent exactly what I was looking for. A silver SP box car like this doubtless looks

Lots of thanks, Tim! This is PERFECT! :-) The file name even says "1948-1954 style paint scheme"! Many greetings Johannes Modeling the early post-war years up to about 1954 Gesendet: Samstag,

Lots of interesting steam era freight cars visible in this photo. https://www.flickr.com/photos/railphotoart/44611217185 It is part of the Victor Hand Collection of EL photos

Johannes In your period they would still be running in black, around 1955 they were repainted silver with the blocked lettering style. One for Tony Thompson to answer fully. Paul Doggett. England

This appears to be a repaint prior to the use of the large Southern Pacific roadname. See the attached. Tim O'Connor On 4/24/2021 8:39 AM,

Schuyler: Re: “Photo with your dad” – note the 3 panel COTS which would make it post-1982? -- Ken Akerboom

Hello friends, I am always looking for variety for my box car collection and found this one which I would be very interested in: https://railmodel.com/product/bcm-0158 If I remember correctly that

Tony So this is a G-50-3, not a G-50-6? I don't recall why I thought this was a G-50-6. Tim O'Connor On 4/23/2021 4:26 PM, Tony

I believe the CB&Q boxcar is in the Chinese red scheme and that would date it to no earlier than 3/58. Kevin Lafferty

STMFC members, Per request by Patrick C. Wider, now available for purchase is DVD Number 2 containing U.S. railway patents including patents applicable to steam era freight cars. Please refer to the

The following volumes are being offered at $25 each, plus shipping. Please contact Mike Christenson at: mrcskc95@... 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30 Clark Propst

And to be clear, my friend Ben and his dad were not photographing that flat car in the early 50s. He believes that picture of the two of them (his dad and the car) was taken in the early 80s.

What intrigued me most about this photo was the photographer cites - Clarence Woodrow Sorenson. I only knew C W Sorenson as “Woody” when he was President of Augustana College in Rock Island in

I hate to nit pick but I believe they are going to unload cans, not can stock, which is the raw material for cans usually in a cup or roll.

Eric, George, and Bob, Concur with the NYC box car 5-57 reweigh stencils, however, the build date that’s difficult to read is 9-50. The NYC 170338 in question was one of 1,500 PS-1s built in

Claus Schlund wrote: The SP car number begins with 537, which makes it a Class G-50-3 car, built by Pressed Steel Car in the fall of 1913. It's a drop-bottom car, and no longer has the T-section