Hi everyone, Thanks very much for all the great and thoroughly informative replies made on this topic Now that I understand the issues, I have a spot on my model railroad where the application

Bill, Encouraging, with May 2020 blog entries, but nothing else on the site is live. For example, there is a section on wheel sets saying to buy them on line, but there are no links to allow you to do

Not sure if this has been noted here, I saw it on Facebook: https://www.reboxx.com/Tools.htm Bill Welch

All- Note that the car appears to be all-steel. Likely not a circus car. It looks like there are two sets of doors above the mid-height of the car between the 2nd and 3rd and 6th and 7th vertical

NJI&I 4233 was one of the fifty ex-Wabash 87000 series war emergency cars sold to the NJI&I in Nov.,1960. Wabash's Decatur IL shop added the eight panel steel sides to the cars and painted them in

Dennis, as usual, shares interesting information. Enough so that I went back to the Cyc., which mentioned the repositioning of the low (inner) side guard rail relative to the high side running rail

This is actually one of the scenes planned for my next layout, minus the high water of course. This is on the B&O Allegheny Yard branch in Pittsburgh Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

There was... the size of their motive power. Freight cars of this era were fine with those tight curves, and the Harlem Transfer used a boxcab diesel with trucks that were hardly any longer wheelbase.

Bob Chaparro wrote: Now THAT'S a billboard scheme! If the date is right, billboard schemes were just being banned. It's schemes like this one that make me wish I modeled in the billboard era!!

Photo: Boilers On Flat Cars https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM49515 A 1911 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Fauerbach Beer Reefers https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM16475 A 1934 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Tank Cars At National Zinc Separating Company Plant https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM83064 A 1925 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Western Union Crew On C&NW Boxcar https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM99918 A 1912 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: PRR Gondola 335396 https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM108402 An undated photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Poultry Car https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM111415 An undated photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Unloading A Boat From IC Boxcar 161748 https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM118734 A 1941 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: PRR Flat Car With Tractors https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM133283 A 1928 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Illinois Northern Gondola https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM142619 A 1906 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Boxcar With A Little End Damage https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM143107 A 1907 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Southern Ventilated Boxcar A 1907 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM143896 Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA