Rails by the River ~ PAC NOR WEST ~ Prototype Modelers Meet Date: August 20th and 21st, 2010 Location: Center 50+ Salem Senior Center 3615 Portland Road NE Salem, OR 97301

pullmanboss wrote: Have a good clear photo copy of a freshlybuilt CP all steel 40' box showing such a roofwalk, so I've scanned it and a detail shot of the roofwalk and posted it

Guyz   One thing i have found is that tack boards on steel cars tend to be to the right of the center loading doors, mounted high. Still not sure why they are missing on steel cars ends.   Fred

Oops, I forgot my reference to Freight Cars Content in my previous post.  The grit blaster is used to pepare truck sideframes for paintin. Virgil Young Amarillo, TX

Hello all,   I have a problem with my micro-blaster and need to replace the nozzle, the inside tubing and outside tubing.  The blasting cabinet was marketed by North Coast engineering 20-25 years

At last nights ops at a friends I noticed a couple of what I think were Red Caboose NYC box cars. Forgot my glasses, so didn't get the numbers. Should those cars have black roofs too? Clark Propst

Ted Culotta included this photo in his first (and last) calendar. If this is the first time you've seen this photo it's no wonder Ted never did another : ) Clark Propst

It is my personal opinion that Delano's photos all have an unusual "cast" to them; they all appear to be slightly dark. It's one of those things that makes it easy to spot a Delano photo. Because of

Some roads went as far as to stencil TACK CARDS HERE in the rectangle to try to get the message across. Dennis

Dennis Storzek wrote: I have a wonderful photo of a PFE reefer with such a black rectangle, and there are remnants of cards tacked almost everywhere AROUND the rectangle, and just a couple IN

Of course, Tom, on a wooden carbody EVERYTHING is a tack board. - Andy

That's because you can tack a card anywhere on a wood end :-) The ARA at one time recommended a tack-board sized rectangle to be painted black, in an attempt to minimize damage to the siding, or at

Lots of valuable STMFC info can be gleaned from Delano's Chicago area Kodachromes as well as his other railroad subjects. I've been trying to catalog a list of reporting marks and numbers for future

Rick Dietrichson wrote: Such a scheme could have been applied starting in late 1955, and during 1956 and much of 1957. The Trainworx car, by the way, is 46 feet long inside, not the correct

Steve Lucas wrote: Notice that there is no end tack board on the MILW wood boxcar on the right, nor any lateral roof walks. Tom Madden

Fumigation placards got tacked on the ends. There's a photo of one in the NMRA reprint of the Jan 1953 ORER. I've seen many photos of cars that show something -was- tacked to the boards but was torn

Photo request forwared from Al Buchan.  Please reply to him off list at abbuchan1 'at' comcast 'dot' net as he is not subscribed to STMFC.   Ben Hom =============== Looking for a hi res photo of a

Steve, There certainly is something for anyone interested in steam era freight cars. I am especially curious about ALTON car #17238. It appears to have had a recent shopping and has a radial roof, I

There is so much else to see in this photo, which IMHO deserves a thread of its own. I like the piecemeal replacement of the running boards on the Pennsy boxcar in the lower left of the

I've seen a few cars with "DO NOT HUMP" placards on these placard boards. But again, this never was an issue with a reefer... Reminds me of that cartoon in MR years ago--"He spotted a reefer at the