Rupert In the time frame you are referring, the federal rules changed to requiring steel frames under cabooses. Four wheel bosses almost always had wood frames and became illegal. The cause of the

Does anyone know about nation-wide legislative restrictions on the use of four wheel cabooses in about 1910, or employment agreements that may have restricted their use to branch lines or yards? I

Here are two other views of the Rutland 2777. J. Stephen Sandifer

Some years ago Stafford Swain wrote an article about modifying the Athearn 40' flat into one of the first steel flatcars built by GTR. There might be somebody in this group who has the issue of CN

Jason, My pleasure. From my trusty October 1958 ORER, page 688, entry for Union Carbide: "Container Cars: The container (A.A.R. Mech. Designation LG) cars marked 'C.C.B.X' and numbered 801 to 803

Dave and Friends, I just found a photo of a similar GT flat car in TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA NO. 35 (reprint of the 1919 CBD), page 326. Grand Trunk 69611 has a lettering layout that mirrors the car on at

Please send list Tom,Armand

No. I have no plans. Attached are a couple pages from a March 1924 NYC freight car diagram book documenting these flat cars. General drawing numbers are listed for a few. Roger Hinman covered these in

Eric do you have plans? Greg Martin Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Does anyone have any info they could share about these container gondolas? I'm trying to make a drawing of the containers anf gondolas working off pictures and the ORER dimensions on the gondola

I think the MW just above the left-hand grab provides a pretty clear clue concerning company service versus interchange. Whether the paint scheme actually represents a prototype car from "back in the

Most likely the car GT 54559 was in company service, like GTW flat cars in this number series. As was the case with most other railroads, CNR and its associated lines did not list company service

the L&N gondola is one of 1000 composite gons that closely copied the RR's original 1000 USRA cars. The main difference is there is no flat diagonal straps on the end panels and they had cast sidearm

Photos From The Louis Edward Nollau Glass Negative Collection This collection is archived at the University of Kentucky. Click on the photos to enlarge them. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA ++++ Boxcar

I had a request to post the Reboxx 36 in. Wheel Application Chart, so here it is. Nelson Moyer

Folks, I have been asked to post my clinic from Cocoa Beach, Prototype Rails 2020 on WWII era military loads. I have placed it and the associated handout in a Google Drive that is accessible to all. I

AC&F Type 11, 10,000 gallon tank car. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."

Photo: Staley Tank Cars Undated photo from the Decatur Herald & Review: https://tinyurl.com/taxs6pc There are a number of other general railroad photos on the page that included the above

With the obvious exception of the number of stake pockets, the GT car does look very similar to Central Vermont 4287 ( http://centralvermontrailway.blogspot.com/2018/08/wordless-wednesday-199.html)

The sidesills on those flats are slightly different. The sidesills on the GT car are deeper than those on the Rutland car. This also affects the angles of the fishbelly appearance.