Yes, it was rebuilt by Ryan- #257799 was in a Ryan ad in the 1922 CBD, along with a really neat rebuild of a King patent hopper car, also for NYC. The Lsection trucks I agree were probably

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 29000 (Undated) A photo from the Virginia Tech University Libraries: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/NS2777.jpeg Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

https://elgincarshops.blogspot.com/2020/11/it-may-not-look-like-much.html -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

To Easy Cab users. I have two Easy Cab throttles to give away for $ 5.00 to help cover the cost of shipping. These have never been used as I decided to go to NCE prior to installing Easy Cab. Please

Bruce I was thinking it might be "beaded" siding - it didn't look like a vee to mee. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Tim, We've talked about a number of times, It is called Vee center Vee. The board are milled so that there is both a vee at the joint and a vee in center of the board. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn,AL

I think the Northern gives it away. ;-) What is that wood pattern on the car sides called? It doesn't look like board by board siding. Novelty siding maybe?

Lot 292-B was ex-LS&MS 89000-89999 before renumbering into NYC 257000-257999. I can't read the rebuilder's stencil, but Ryan (Chicago) is what's in the caption of a copy I received from Ray Breyer.

Mont, Thanks, you cleared up a long standing mystery! Engine blocks not windshields. Regards, Mike

Not much plywood production in 1900, that had to wait for better glues. Meanwhile labor was cheap, and even stacks kept the boards from twisting as they dried. This is classic air drying before

Those lumber stacks look like they could be plywood veneer. They look like sheets or panels rather than individual boards and there appear to be spacers to allow drying. One would expect those to

I read the logo as Ryan Car Company, they did get an order to rebuild 2000 box cars from NYC in 1922. My notes show this as PSC built Lot 292-B in 1912. Roger Hinman

Note the “Nothern” in the photo is much closer to the end of the car, Roger Hinman

Tom, that's the classic double board roof used by lots of roads in that era. Milwaukee Road was another big user. The rabbets milled on the face of the board are actually intended to act like gutters,

A very nice view if the double-board roof. Now I wonder how many lines used these double-grooved boards to channel water away. Thanks, Tom! Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Well, OK, MAYBE . . . 😊 Schuyler

Ummmm.... https://id18538.securedata.net/westerfieldmodels.com/merchantmanager/images/uploads/10403_77010_full_1.jpg Tom Madden

I checked my copy of the AAR pub. Neither the 1947 version, nor 1949 Supplement 2, include references to loading gun mounts. But I recall seeing them before. Andy L. Wisconsin

Tom, I doubt a GN car would have the word NORTHE . . . stenciled on the side . . . But other than that, I think it’s interesting that the boards making up the roof have two grooves milled into

Photo: PRR Livestock Car 125060 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3603429 This photo can be