Elden, As you have researched and published articles and presented clinics on these cars, since the floor of the Tangent car is removable, would simply changing the floor to steel convert these to a

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Folks; As I dig up more and more info on the gons converted to skid & cover service, I continue to be astounded at why we do not have a model of these great cars, even in resin form. As an aside to

Mike; I lived in Laramie at the time, but this was in the middle of nowhere, literally. A siding from which nothing was visible in any direction, but dirt and weeds. Oh, and one lone X31A.

without, yes without. I have 3 in one town, two in another. ---------------------------------------------------------------- J. Stephen (Steve) Sandifer mailto:steve.sandifer@... Home:

The C&O was already turning its 87000-87499 series vent boxes into regular house cars by then.  The C&O did keep its fully-insulated 86500-86999 series ventilated boxes in service into the 50s.  I

Elden Gatwood says: In the "middle of nowhere"? Wyoming? I beg your pardon, sir. If you are referring to certain tracks in Southeastern Wyoming, you are referring to railroad Mecca....hardly in the

Chuck, Sure, you might have found a CofG car in Clifton Forge, but keep in mind that the C&O also had ventilators of their own. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff RUTLANDRS@... wrote:

John B. Corn wrote two books on the Wheeling & Lake Erie. While he covers the history with a conventional narrative, he clearly preferred telling the story through excellent, well-captioned

Anyone have any idea what this load might be? Some type of insulation? PRR 613695 612000-614999 G31a Allison Insulat Clark Propst Mason City Iowa

I'll add that there are numerous photos of these and similar cars in the Philadelphia area, so not all the ones handed off to PRR went to NYC <G>. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn,

SAL watermellon ventilated boxes came up the Chinchfield thru the C&O's Russell yard and on up to Chicago and back again in the summers of late-40s thru mid-50s. Al Kresse

John Corns authored two books on the Wheeling & Lake Erie; W&LE vol 1, and W&LE Vol 2. Both volumes contained images of railroads that were merged into the W&LE and a few imags of the NKP years. Both

I agree with Tim and Bruce. A state-of-the-art PRR X31A is way overdue. They were seen everywhere, lasted into the 60's, were painted in a number of schemes, and numbered in the thousands right to

I don't know about any WLE series, Joel, but there was considerable coverage in word and photo in John Rehor's "Nickel Plate Story". Mike Buckelew

GENTLEMAN:Wasnt(Isnt)there a series of books on the history of the WLE before and after the NKP take over??? Thanks Joel Norman

Folks; The G31's were painted just like the Tangent model, as-built. All initial paint and lettering were identical, but for the builders' stencils, where applied; The "w" in a circle came

Lee, Those watermelon cars did get around. There are several photos in Richard E. Prince's book RICHMOND-WASHINGTON FAST FREIGHT LINE of them in RF&P trains. Apparently they came off the ACL or SAL

Dean, no 8K gal. AC&F Type 21s were built new for UTL, so the cars in the 77000 series were acquired second hand. They were on the UTL roster as early as 10/38, so you're okay there, but not

On Santa Fe's Alma branch Burlingame had about 2,000 people in the 1940s and three bulk oil jobbers. Eskridge with a population of about 550 had three. Alma with about 1200 people had two oil