I know that at one time Des Plaines had Viking roofs in HO for the Red Caboose box cars, I have not found them on their website? Also, would like to know if anyone produces a Murphy radial roof and a

Friends, Could these "caboose-boxcars" be cars used both as cabooses and as lcl cars? Kind regards, Garth Groff Thomas Warne wrote:

Durling WWII, the Southern Railway converted several wooden box carsto cabooses. Al Westerfield has kits. Tom Warne

I have seen various photos of converted box cars. As I had no use for the information I don't remember much except having seen the photos. I believe Silver Streak once made a kit for a

YES, this is a freight car issue. Does anyone know the open-market (i.e. not special sweet heart deals) costs for freight car steel plate BACK in 1947-1950-ish? I'm looking for - 1/4" thick

Going to the LOC web site and finding the adjacent image from the panorama shot. This is a Great Northern stock car from the Eastern Minnesota Ry Listed as series 77000-77998 (even numbers) and

Looking at old Official Railway Equipment Register data available at Google Books, I see several railroads which have an entry for "Caboose (Box Car)" or "Caboose, Box" or "Box Car Caboose." For

http://www.shorpy.com/node/6958?size=_original What is the CMRwy (?) car on the left edge, about half way down, in front of the Knudson Ferguson Fruit Co? Some kid of ventilator car? Also, why do

There are four Armour reefers (two paint schemes) of this time period in this photo: http://www.shorpy.com/node/6920?size=_original There's a MUCH larger version of the photo at the Library of

There was discussion in this group over the past nine years about how refrigerator cars with GARX reporting marks were leased to Rock Island (#67500-69011), MKT, NKP, and others (Kingan & Co. and WIMP

Photos of the Armour cars are rare. There are two extant and Clover House makes dry transfers for both. Unfortunately, all my books are stored in giant piles pending a whole house re-carpeting but I

I don't know if the UP considered the cars experimental or not... building 27 cars would seem to be a test in service conditions, but they sure lasted long enough. UP 100000 still exists, at the

Thanks Tim. Frank's post and the replies to it establish that the B&LE cars were actually built, but do not address the issue of whether they were the first non-experimental steel cars built in the

The Westerfield 3900 series of reefer models say the cars were leased from Armour to Heinz and others in the billboard reefer era. There's nothing there about equivalent Armour cars and/or what

Group, I have listed several good freight car books on Ebay at decent starting prices. Mosr are in like new condition. Look under seller "gossport43" without the quotes. Thanks, Will

They most likely hauled cotton oil. Cyril Durrenberger

Another OLD reply, been cleaning up my email finally and besides been in a tank car modeling mood lately!   CTAX belonged to Continental Tank Car Company, no relationship to Continental Oil. CONX is

Larry Frank Valoczy brought this up on 10/22/2007 -- subject line was "B&LE cars". Tim O'Connor

I know an over a year old reply. I found this info on the RPI site.   In 1919, this Terrell, TX company listed 10 8,000-gallon tank cars, nos. 1-10, said to be marked with the name as above and

Tim, he splells it Vaughan -- Allen Rueter StLouis MO