Steve, Folks, Steve - thank you for posting this photo - it is so quintessentially "Doc Denny"! If I remember correctly, he was sharing a story that my models had stimulated. I will miss his gentle

Circa 1939 photos I own show L&N and CNW Mather stock cars with truss rod u/f. Bill Welch

Notes for the photos say "Courtesy of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation, New York." wonder where photo taken, doesn't look like anything near NYC Rich Chapin Basking Ridge NJ

First progress shots on kit bashing Accurail 4300 series model into a C&S 13500-13999. Stripped most of the paint - that was stubborn! Used both 99% alcohol and that purple stuff (can’t recall

The Wabash reloaded livestock into home road cars at Kansas City and perhaps Council Bluffs and released western road car back home. Chet French Dixon, IL

Denny with Bruce Smith from Cocoa Beach 2015. Always with a story to share. He will be greatly missed. Steve Hile

It is my sad duty to inform you that my great friend, Denny Anspach, passed away today, September 20, 2020. Denny was a man of great accomplishments, not only within our hobby of prototype and model

In the 1919 tariff, SDRX shows a single two-compartment car, 4000 gallons total. In the 1936 edition, there were 40 two-comp cars, mostly 6000 gal, with a handful of smaller ones. None bigger. --

In the 1955 tank car tariff it shows Sinclair had several 2-compartment tank cars, but most were 6,000-gallon cars and the remainder were 5,000-gallon cars. This one is much bigger and looks to me to

That first car on the 2nd track is an interesting 2 dome car. The domes are large and the car seems longer than most. SDRX ???, two ladders but no platform on this side. J. Stephen Sandifer

It is important to check the ORER for your modeling era. Just because the Proto paint scheme may be correct does not mean that car was leased to that railroad at the time you model. J. Stephen

The car in the photo is a Mather automobile boxcar. PM 60000-60299 were on lease from 1914 to 1918. Several railroads leased these 36-foot auto boxcars between 1907 and 1918, when the cars were

I have attached a photo showing a New York Central stock car as well as a couple Northern Pacific, and at least one Great Northern, can't identify the other cars. This is at Wishram, Washington on the

Since the connections are on the bottom of the cars, it would appear to be UNloading apparatus. Jim Gates

Friends, O.K. Clumsy fingers. What I wanted to say was that these are early Sinclair cars (before the giant "Sinclair" was plastered down the cars' sides). It should say "Sinclair Oils" on their

Friends, SDRX is the reporting mark used by Sinclair. This photo is obviously before the giant silver "Sinclair" was spelled out across the car sides. T

Bob Chaparro wrote: Good illustration of why it's hard to model a refinery realistically. <g> Tony Thompson tony@...

Same here. I usually even put the shouldered screws and springs with the trucks. Tony Thompson tony@...

Garth Groff wrote: The original P2k releases were ALL based on Richard Hendrickson's recommendations. In their last years, a few foobles crept in, and with Walthers -- well. But you can trust the

A couple of additional notes. 1) Remember that stock cars carried more than stock, so their appearance could be to carry a different cargo. 2) Not all stock movements were to slaughter. There were