Hi list members, Thanks Bob. Some more nice images from this site. The url's are long and will need to be re-combined into one line after the email program gets thru with them. I'm including the

Apparently the box was converted, or originally built, to carry coal in bulk, with top loading hatches and side unloading doors. Very interesting arrangement. Would make an interesting model,

It looks like the WCC car has roof hatches. Rob Simpson

The Wisconsin Historical Society's website (http://wisconsinhistory.org/) has several railroad subject images. Below are links to some of these images. Enjoy. Bob Chaparro Hemet,

Sunshine sells "4 General American Duryea underframe parts/details for modification of plastic & resin 40' boxcar kits" which might be useful. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon

Folks, What and when was the first offset-sides construction coal car? I've the VGN 50000 120-ton gon blt June 1917 by Pressed Stl Car Co and VGN G4 Class blt in Nov 1920. Earlier N&W 90-ton gons

Ted Culotta's Speedwitch makes a Red Caboose M-26 to M-26d/e conversion fkit and one bundled with a boxcar kit. The troubles are: (1) patent research by Bob Witt and myself show that the

Thanks Jim. Rich Orr

The VGN 50000 was not an offset side car. It was an outside rib battleship gon. According to Martin Karig in "Coal Cars the First Three Hundred Years" The first offset cars were built for the C&O

Jim, Thanks for the info. But I think you may have inadvertently compounded my problem. I am attempting to convert a few cabooses. Rich Orr

Ben, Thanks for those two very useful references. I'll print out both and put them with my NYC material. Gene Green and everyone 414-

Ben is, as usual, correct. I will add that what's in those crates is one or more Travelair biplanes, and that Travelair was (at the time) one of the largest and most successful aircraft

Wonder who in Honolulu got the Travel-Air airplane? Brian Ehni

David Snook wrote: http://www.wichitaphotos.org/graphics/wsu_tms408.9.factory.4.jpg <http://www.wichitaphotos.org/graphics/wsu_tms408.9.factory.4.jpg> "I wonder if all of those crates will fit in the

Gene Green wrote: "It seems easier to find model matches for the PRR cars. The NYC and subsidiaries appear to present more of a challenge. That is why I asked all the questions." I think the

I build in 1 1/2 scale.  I  model the Clinchfield and am currently working on a CRR E-3 ex DRGW 4-6-6-4.  I have posted in the photo section in a folder called 1.5 scale the boxcar ends and

Paul Catapano wrote: That's because they were protecting those wood trusses from the weather. Even early in the 20th century, railroads (at least the progressive ones) were already using steel

I'm looking for plans for an outside braced boxcar, hopefully the braces are wood, to build a 1-1/2" scale car. Cars of the 1890's all seem to be sheathed, and cars of post WWI seem to be to modern.

Great site, with a lot of 1930's pics. This one shows a (Missouri Pacific) auto car with end doors being loaded with aircraft in a crate. Looks like at least a pinched finger job.