Before leaving for the C'ville RPM I ordered three different Tank Car parts sets for Tangent with brake wheels. Here is a Shoppers Guide: #95009-07 contains only one Brake Wheel. Photo on the site was

There is no structural reason to do it either way, but my gut feeling is that having the sheathing on the carsides overlapping the sheathing on the end was more common, likely because there was more

After the great RPM meet, I stayed at the Super 8 in Collinsville until my 4PM flight back south on Tuesday and on Sunday night tried that J.T. Coltons Steak house where maybe the last in the land

Yes, and Great Northern had a bunch of such cars also, a couple types at least. They were converted boxcars much like the SP car shown earlier in this thread, but only 40’ or so long. The G.N. cars

Correct. I have a 1933 photo of Northern Pacific "hog fuel"cars (flat cars with tall stake sides) loaded with chunks of wood, as well as a photo of NPgondolas loaded with the much finer wood

At first thought it was food for RR egineers AKA hoggers. -)

Indeed. Any really heavy cut in metal or woodworking is often still called “hogging”. Today there are also a bunch of big “hogs” mounted on semi-trailers that visit logging and demolition

Hi Andy, etc. I should have thought of that, since we have just such an electrical generating station here in Flint. It takes in all the local combustable building-site & demolition waste, and much of

Hogs are still what really big chippers are called. Ask anyone in the forest products business. And machinists (remember them?) still hog parts out of stock. Tony Thompson

SFRD reefers are now available from Resin Car Works as HO scale kits. A total of 1,360 SFRD rebuilds in the RR-35, -36, -39, and -40 classes were added in the mid-1940s. This new kit reflects these

Was there, on double-sheathed cars with wood sheathed ends, a general practice regarding whether the side sheathing overlapped the end sheathing, or vice-versa? Or was there a design convention that

Actually the term "Hog Fuel" is still commonly being used by today's co-generators; power plants developed from the 1980s and later for electrical production. When I was still living in Redding,

I think that’s “Hog Fuel” not “Hog Feed” … it’s ground up wood chips and small chuunks from a sawmill or planing operation. It’s an ancestor of modern wood-chip cars. The “hog” is

Hog feed cars....a little late for my constraining period dates (1946-54) but what an interesting prototype....go hog wild on building a string....

The I-, L-, and T-section trucks were banned on interchange cars as of January 1, 1957. The initial proposed deadline was January 1, 1949. The info is on the AAR Interchange Dates file in the file

The TMW #009, Barber lateral motion was purchased in large amounts for both PFE and SP upgrades. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

To Dennis, yes I still run all of Gordon’s diesel parts. As Tim pointed out, the advent of highly phase specific, and detailed engines made in China has cut into the overall sales, but maintaining a

They had the T-section trucks even as late as 1946. When the cars were rebuilt as hog fuel (wood shavings) cars they appear to have received AAR U-section trucks with spring planks.

I think he does. He added to the product line after acquiring it. Sales have probably dried up thanks to the flood of super model imports from China. Tim O'Connor

What era? Southern Pacific Freight Cars Vol 3, Page 62 shows original circa-1923 Bettendorf T-section trucks... but these got replaced later in life. -------------------- Richard Brennan - San