An interesting photo on this site is of CNW 128698, a double sheathed box car from 1912. What I found odd was the dark lines or shadows spaced along the side sheathing, making it look somewhat like

I know that photos of freight cars that are not where they are suppose to be are of interest to some on this group. I was looking at the images on the Wheeler CD I had burned before mailing it

About 1938 - working from memory here, can't confirm until I'm back home next month - the AAR asked the railroads to test various metal running boards. It was only after the test period that metal

Jerry, Southern Pacific alone took delivery on nearly 6,000 box cars from 1940 to 1942 with metal grid running boards. Also the 1,000 R-40-14's built during the war were so equipped. All of the C&NW

Rich, some years ago PSC imported some "bargain" models of HP ICC-105 tank cars, and the model you saw may be one of them if it had a small valve casing on top of the tank instead of an expansion

This message arrived while Sandra and I were out running a sports car rally in her 1970 MG-B (in this year's first serious rain in Southern Oregon - barometer 29.3 and snow on the mountains above

Would these be the same as cars lableled coke racks in early ORERs? These appeared on the Toledo & Ohio Central, Kanawha & Michigan, and Zanesville & Western, and I'm sure on other roads as well.

Phil Buchwald wrote: From just after the turn of the century until the mid-1920s, the Santa Fe ordered thousands of new stock cars which had Caswell drop bottom doors and longitudinal roof hatches

Mark Plank wrote: Would these be the same as cars lableled coke racks in early ORERs? These appeared on the Toledo & Ohio Central, Kanawha & Michigan, and Zanesville & Western, and I'm sure on other

Sounds like you have a real grudge against Microsoft. I'll never understand the "anything but Microsoft" crowd. I think it must come from the same mentality that makes someone automatically hate the

Jerry Stewart said: Actually, Jerry, I'd disagree with you. First, the rate of adoption of the metal running boards was very impressive, obviously an invention which was overdue. Secondly, there

The voices are telling me Dave Nelson said on 10/14/2004 12:35 AM: Cute story here <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/07/19.html> about Lookout. As everybody knows who's tried to use the

northeast, however, for us guys born and raised in the midwest, are there any general rules to guide us in what sort of road name mix we could use for early 50's coal hoppers? < Phil, There have

--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@o...> wrote: "Metal grid running boards began to appear in significant numbers in the late 1930s." Richard, I hate taking

--- In STMFC@..., "Stan Agar" <stanrail@x> wrote: Steam era pics turn up in many of the files. However the resent postings by Steve Wydeck of ACF builders photos are at

Does anybody have any leverage with Kadee to get them to release the "fixed" vesion of their #78 "scale couplers with the Narrow draft gear box"? Kadee "fixed" the #58 scale couplers and

You should receive a reply from RPI verifying your membership and PW. If not, drop John Neihrich a line. Max

Thomas, Thank you for all the information. However it didn't answer Tim O'Connor's question "are these the same cars as the new Walthers cars". It appears to me they are but I don't know enough

A Yardmaster at LV Coxton yard told me they didn't return other line's hopper cals if the LV needed them because the per diem on hoppers was so low. While against AAR interchange rules "That was top

tmolsen@... writes: Phil, Is there such a thing as too many Pennsy hoppers? Tom Olsen Why ask anyone but a PRR guy Tom? The answer is NO! Greg Martin