Photos: PRR Covered Hopper 258269 H34D (1958) Photos from the Hagley Digital

Photo: Alcoa Aluminum Bodied Hoppers (1947) A photo from the Hagley Digital Archives: https://digital.hagley.org/PC20101230_006 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photos: CCNX Tank Car #1 (1955) Photos from the Hagley Digital Archives: https://digital.hagley.org/72360_0717 https://digital.hagley.org/72360_0716 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Stencil:

Photos: FTCX Tanks Car 1103 (1919) Photos from the Hagley Digital Archives: https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_ME04839 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Fleischman Transportation Company A listing

The things that hold the hatches open! I think the rests are the triangular part for the hatch to “rest” in the full open position. Tom

Claus, The DOWX car is 3814_ with the last digit obscured by the plant piping. It should be an 8000 gallon car with heater coils. 38141 & 38149 were insulated and had a 241 gal domes. 38142-147

I’ve been upgrading an Accurail 36’ Fowler boxcar to match my resin models; new steel roof, wire grab irons and using a Westerfield decal set. Doing a search on Erie boxcar paint on the group I

Bob Chaparro wrote: You can also double-click on the photo to enlarge. The end view (above) not only shows the 3008 gallon capacity, but as you enlarge you can clearly see the side and end jacket

Latches or hatch rests? Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

These cars were built new for the Interstate by Pressed Steel Car in 1913. They are nominally identical to a D&RGW series built around that same time. Corey Bonsall offers a modernized (with side

Does anyone make SFRD Ice Hatch Latches? For whatever reason I am missing most needed to complete some Sunshine SFRD Rebuilt reefers. Thanks, Tom

Those are both great pictures! The first photo is a very modellable scene (assuming one can find or build some 3000 gal. insulated tank cars). Kevin Lafferty

Kadee's archbar trucks in HO are very similar to these. Kevin Lafferty

Looks a bit like a load of puppies but that seems unlikely!

 Hi George and List Members, Thanks George, sounds plausible to me! Claus Schlund

https://myp48.wordpress.com/2021/04/16/modeling-lee-turner-on-rock-island-b-2-boxcars/ I just posted a short story on a car from Lee Turner’s personal collection. Please take a look. Gene

Just a note, one of Ed Wolfe's book on the Interstate Railroad has a photo taken in the early1960's, iirc, showing a Lehigh Valley twin hopper being re-railed at an Interstate Coal Mine in southwest

 Hi Bob and List Members, If you zoom way, way in there, you can read that the placard sez KEEP LIGHTS AND FIRES AWAY DANGEROUS MOTOR FUEL ANTIKNOCK COMPOUND HANDLE CAREFULLY

I should have added, it would seem to me, Westmoreland Coal acquired the photos, not the gons. George Courtney

I only know that Westmoreland Coal Company bought a Southern Railway yard to collect coal from hoppers off the Southern and the former Interstate after Southern bought the Interstate. If Westmoreland