My muse whispers "wood chips" in my ear.

SP 50’ door and a half automobile cars had there roofs cut off for wood chip service in the fifties. Paul Doggett England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Woodchips, most likely for paper manufacture. The SP sent a lot of chips up their line to Portland and on via the NP to Longview Fiber in Longview WA. Todd Sullivan

Claus, Those look like early wood chip cars. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Hi List Members, Can anyone say what exactly is going on here? Are these cars being loaded with sawdust? https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:df65vv071 Enjoy Claus Schlund

Hi Eric, My collection of photos of SHPX LO’s is very limited. The ones that I have that are legible are all photos of new cars that have not been reweighed. Sorry, -Jeff

The photo date is given as March, 1912. The safety appliances look like a work in progress. The grabs look OK, but that sill step is iffy. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA

It looks like the car has a 4-20 weigh stencil. Or is that 4-20 11 with a larger space than usual? I’m more accustomed to seeing pre-1915 weigh dates presented as fractions. Where was AR for a

Photo: "Elk" Boxcar A 1912 photo from the University of Oregon Libraries: https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:df71d132q Caption: "Two men standing at the door of a boxcar used to

Photo: Mather Patent Illinois Central Reefer An undated photo from the University of Oregon Libraries: https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:df71fp45w Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

It looks to me as if the letter "i" in "Meat Rail" was left off the stenciling over the door. But maybe it's just the angle of the photo. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I'm pretty sure the buyer specified what they wanted for all such features, rather than GATC doing "what they liked to do." Tony Thompson tony@...

Hi List Members, Lots of nice PM twin hoppers in the image linked below... https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc78468_3 Enjoy! Claus Schlund

A double-ended business car! David Soderblom Baltimore MD USA drs@...

The caption is incorrect. The view shows the Canadian National yard (not CP) in Windsor Ontario with the car ferry WINDSOR in the Wabash ferry slip. The four-track car ferry, owned by the Wabash

Hi Bruce, I'm a little late getting into this but Hendrix wire in Milford, NH was using wood reels right through the 1970's. One could often see truck loads of wood reels made by Carris Reel of

That was something GATC liked to do if someone specified platforms on both sides of the tank. Those 12k tanks they built for Gulf had this arrangement. David Thompson

For what her builders and operators called the largest railroad car ferry in the world, see <http://cprr.org/Museum/Solano/>, likewise with plenty of great images and text from the engineer who built

Group, I am working on this kit and had to sand the saddle portion of the tank dome to properly symmetrically fit the tank. I am wondering if anyone can give me the correct height of the tank

Schuyler Larrabee asks: Which version of “ATSF Mineral Brown” should I be looking at? The referenced articles suggest Floquil ATSF Mineral Brown, the only game in