Thank you John for the info and attachment. This will help me narrow down my choices as I have only room for 2 additional gondolas in the fleet due to a limited amount and length of the staging

Hi Jeff, I'm going to offer some hunches, and I'll probably be corrected in due course! The boxcar interior first. When I was at the NPTCo in the early 1960s, that car would have been classified by

Thank you Bill! -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

In the first photo (link reproduced here:https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/photos/id/100971/rec/1247 ), I see a series of at least 5 rings where the car side meets the roof. What are

This suggests a rail/marine scene, as in the 19th and early 20th centuries China came to North America in the holds of ships, packed just like that. Visit the 1886 steel sailing ship Balclutha[0] at

Fran, The attached spreadsheet is an excerpt from a much larger spreadsheet compiled by the late Tim Gilbert of through trains between Potomac Yard and Monroe Virginia. Most of the gons were in

Thanks for all the replies. As info, I am doing this same project with the flat cars on my layout so I will use the results here with them also. Clyde - great idea looking at photos of trains.

Tim, I don’t think it has much affect. Depending on the size of the drums, they fit nicely on a pallet, which was easier to handle. Four 55 gallon steel drums fit nicely onto a 48 inch

I do not have access to the file in the SRHA archives right now but the Southern Railway file on the construction of Fontana Dam in Western NC describes the railroad carried many thousands (20+?) of

So the fork lift and the wood pallet doomed most barrel use? Tim O'

Barrels for cement were indeed very common and the Rosendale Consolidated Cement Company (Rosendale NY) shipped over 100 paper -lined barrels of cement per day in the early days of the last century.

Well, Doug's chart certainly explains the dearth of cement barrel photos. As to overall cement shipments, here is a chart of a sampling of cement shipments from the Modeling the CNW in Milwaukee,

Romani ite domum — Randy Hammill Prototype Junction http://prototypejunction.com Modeling the New Haven Railroad 1946-1954 http://newbritainstation.com

Fine china sometimes was shipped i barrels, padded with excelsior. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Lots of things used to be shipped in barrels at one time. Another example would be nails, which used to come in small size barrels called kegs. Last time I saw a nail keg was in the sixties while in

There is a photo of a cement barrel on this site: http://northampton.thelehighvalleypress.com/2019/07/10/remembering-coplay-cement-company-progress-industry What does a barrel of cement weight?

Hi Fran, I checked in my January 1952 ORER (I model 1952), and most large railroads' listings have a "Recapitulation of Car Equipment" at the end of the main listings of cars by number series. The

Fran, The group files hold quite a lot of data about the national freight car fleet, and not all of it just deals with boxcars. This file might be of

My guess is most barrels for cement were a size known as a tierce, which is about 42 gallons. This is the size of a barrel of petroleum or salt. A 42-gallon barrel of salt would weigh about 400

Thank you Bob. My undrstanding from some of the oldtimers is that raw cement was shipped in barrels at least up into the early 1930's, if not all the way up to the beginning of WW II, but I've never