This is located in Joliet on the Des Plaines river. It is part of the I & M canal. Just west of this photo it enters the canal locks. I used to frequent this area quite a bit, when I lived there. Rich

Group; Do any of you know anything about the attached EJ&E diagonal plate loader? Series? Builder? Thanks in advance, Elden Gatwood

Lester, I'm not sure why your search of the archives wasn't successful. A simple "IC reefer" got 155 messages from which it was easy to pull out the paint and lettering information. Now, I will admit

and Martin and Pat Lofton. Mont Switzer

Sunshine offered a kit of the IC steel reefer too. Bill Welch

Lester, The answer to your question is yes. See Ted Culotta’s Reference Manual #3, Refrigerator Cars, for black and white photos. Ted mentions the color scheme in the text. See Gene Green’s

I see models from different manufactures of IC metal side refrigerators with yellow paint and green lettering on sides and some with black, or boxcar red or green ends and roof. Did any of these

sure hope they build some ptotection, from the elements mel perry

Andy Carlson wrote: Richard and I used to call Naperville "the Freight Car National." Tony Thompson tony@...

I have a friendship started at a Naperville decades ago. A good modeler, Ron also is very helpful to the local Montecello Illinois railroad museum. When Ron was told about a pair of tank cars at a

 Hi Bob, Thanks for the great images. It is a PRR flat, probably a PRR class FM flat. It rolls on archbar trucks. Claus Schlund

One of 800 gondolas in series 20000-20799 built by Pressed Steel Car in 1900, the last 200 with drop doors. David Thompson

One part of me wishes I'd bought the original 1934-2009 DVD set, but then again those PDFs *WERE* encrypted and the only way to decode them was the app that came on the DVD. Unfortunately,

[has no problems with it] I can't be bothered; on the other hand, I'd buy a boxed set of discs of the first 40 or 50 years of high-quality reproductions without batting the proverbial eye. I, too,

I know it's been a while but I just got the 10-Year Archive 2010-2019 for my birthday and they arrived today. I use a Mac so I haven't looked at what happens on a Windows or even Linux

I have one of these beautiful 8000 gal. models which is now an undec. Tangent says most of these cars had billboard schemes for their lessee operators, but not all. Can anyone point to a mid-50's

This is one of the ones I was referring to the other day. A wooden car that had been rebuilt with a steel center sill from Bettendorf, but retaining truss rods for a wood framed double sheathed body,

Photo: Chicago & Alton Gondola 20694 With Coal Load A circa 1900-1905 photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016811460/ Use the Download box for larger versions of this

Photo: Rock Island Boxcar 152693 A 1939 photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017809687/resource/ Click on the TIFF version to see the most details of the car and

Photo: NP Boxcar 11760 A 1939 photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017809730/resource/ Click on the TIFF version to see the most details of the car. Good view of