Hi all, I just spent a couple of hours going thru a lot of the images in this collection (and even saving a few). As I was browsing the images one thing I noticed was that a very high percentage of

As repainted by Greenville in

A nice complement to the article in PRM Vol. 5: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-N-Q/i-3DTdsTD/A David Thompson

Nice view of the straight-sill version of the Pressed Steel hopper: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-N-Q/i-Sv2m93j/A David Thompson

There are some nice photos in there, including this rather fascinating Gl hopper rebuild: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-T/i-8XP6Ksn/A David Thompson

I notify the yard clerk that a car is missing from my train and there’s an extra car without a waybill that I left on track 5. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Tony, How do you handle the car cards on that one? Mont

An SP employee who worked at Gemco (yard near GM Van Nuys) mentioned that freight cars for the plant would occasionally come in with an "unload this side" placard that needed to match the loading dock

I've just taken a quick plunge into the "C" section, and it is indeed a great collection! Yes, many are post-STMFC. There seem to be a lot of Greenville photos I've not seen elsewhere. My thanks to

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Richard Hendrickson did a bunch of cars that way (and omitted end reporting marks). Of course, he didn't have an operating layout, and the one he had been working on, was

Reeeely?? Who would do such a thing? Think of the headaches for the billing folks! Schuyler

One reason to turn cars might be the case where you have lettered each side for a different railroad. <g> Tony Thompson tony@...

Of course, I am drawn to what certainly appears to be a 10,000 gallon UTLX Type V car in the right foreground, ahead of the NP boxcar. And could the UOCX car be a GATC 10,000 gallon car, like the

This is a N&W Class SF stockcar, built early 20th century. Here is a link to the materials in the N&WHS Archives concerning this

Wow! That’s a great photo from the 1920s, Bob! Based upon the Pennsylvania Lines USRA single-sheathed boxcar, I’d estimate this is before 1927. After Lines West was folded into the main

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 26432 (Undated) A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2775 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Too bad the

This collection is awesome Don't miss it!!! Thanks to all. Mike Schleigh Grove City, Penna.

Back in the days of the Yahoo groups, Jim Kinkaid posted a large number of builder's photos, mostly Pullman Standard, to the files area of the Modern Freight Car list. It was not possible to migrate

Claus Schlund wrote: "How about cars placarded as "Unload this Side" / "Unload other Side" Bruce Smith wrote at 7:45 AM: "In the RARE circumstance where a car must be directionally spotted for

Hi Bruce and List Members, Bruce asked: "Why would you want to turn a freight car around to run the opposite direction down the line?" How about cars placarded as "Unload this Side" / "Unload