Gene your comment And because Richard Hendrickson is not here to say it, I will. Gentleman, the correct term is running board. struck home with me that the fact that Richard is still here watching

As a W.A.G., I would guess repairs done with green or wet wood preventing paint adhesion. At least we know it wasn't caused by rust or wet air in the airbrush. Chuck Peck​

Alex, That is a good question. The produce terminal is a dominant feature in thissection of Pittsburgh but there were a variety of industries and many team tracks. The merchants ofdowntown Pittsburgh

I know exactly how that man on the flat car feels. Worked 23.5 hours straight last Saturday. Pierre Oliverwww.elgincarshops.comwww.yarmouthmodelworks.com On 10/23/2014 9:42 AM,

I spent hours viewing these (there are a hundreds that aren't digitized yet) over at the LOC a few years ago. I need to head back over there at some point and go through some more. One I thought

The car with the blisters appears to be a Mather car. Dennis Storzek

Here is a refrigerator car that has really blistered paint: http://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Emil-Albrecht-Photos/1947-Aug-Ogden/i-HFg8cLH/A Please note the PFE car in front of it what

Jim Wolf wrote: Whoa, serious sarcasm here, could EVEN be seen as hostile. Gee, Jim, maybe you should consider cutting down on your caffeine. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

Probably Alex, a locomotive of some sort using appliances situated on each end of it and most freight cars called a "coupler" attached itself to the car and, after moving the intervening cars, placed

No, Gary. You are correct. The MARK reporting marks were owned by Mather, but used on Mather reefers leased to Armour in the early 50’s. Mather had several reporting marks, which I believe they used

I need to edit and crop them first. I somehow picked up a light flare on acouple as well. Greg Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs throughit. Norman Maclean

Steadily the LOC is upgrading their scans of this collection to very large files. It is worthwhile to log on occasionally to see if favorites have been upgraded. Bill Welch

Doug, What I wrote may have been misleading. The MARX reporting marks were assigned to Mather; but on the Mather page in the Jan 54 ORER, they were listed as being used on Armour cars. gary

According to: http://www.nakina.net/other/report/reportm.html The MARX reporting marks were MARX assigned to: Mather Stock Car Co. added 10/1953; 7/1954; eliminated 7/1955 Doug

Gene, The Jan 1954 ORER shows MARX assigned to Armour and Company, used on cars numbered 3000-3099. gary roe quincy, illinois

I am trying to determine when the reporting mark of M.A.R.X. was created. Mather appears to have built/rebuilt a series of 40' reefers for Armour in 1953. I am guessing that a new reporting was

So how did the Frisco boxcar get in the middle of a string of refrigerator cars? Alex Schneider

Elden, Are you talking about the 1200-series? Greg Martin did an article on building these from a C&BT Shops kit in the September 1993 MM. It includes a 3/4 builder's photo showing the

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Ed and all; I am trying to find either a builders shot, or early photo, of this subject box car. All those I have found have the later "symbol of Service"

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Guys; I would add; after staring at hundreds and hundreds of gon photos in prep for a book, and also some topical articles, I would suggest that the