The picture looks a lot like the surviving Santa Fe car an Inyokern, CA, just minutes away from the last two earthquakes of merit in California last week. One side is in surviving paint, the other

The emblem you called a Civil Defense emblem is the emblem used to identify cars assigned to zinc concentrate service. In 1959 there were 185 BX-11 cars live in the series 41200 - 41399 --

#41298 has Dalman Two-Level but appear to be missing the outer springs on each side on each truck I think. Not sure about the other. Bill Welch

That car appears to be out of service, maybe used for company storage... the tip off ie the Civil Defense emblem on the carside, not something you'd likely see in service. It also looks like the

What's the truck under this car? http://rr-fallenflags.org/atsf/atsf042298rsa.jpg and this one? http://rr-fallenflags.org/atsf/atsf212483ajs.jpg According to the Dobyne Santa Fe 40' boxcar book, these

That is a Ga-91 class car. Charlie Sent from Outlook

There is a 3/4 view of a similar gondola, but there seems to be no way to determine what class. The side construction appears to be similar. https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/51175 Bob Witt

Lester please contact me Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Interesting find, Tim. Looks like it would have been about 5 miles away from MEC's Calais branch. I agree there doesn't seem to be a closer rail connection. Odd that there seems to be some track

Someone pointed out a scrap yard in Meddybemps, Maine (yes, that's the name) that has over a dozen BAR ice reefers rusting away... in full BAR lettering. If you switch to the "street view" in Google

If you want to see an example of the seams brake in use look up WW&F 9 on Youtube. There are quite a few movies of the engine using it. In person it is surprising how quiet the steam ejector which

Tim the Santa Fe had many classes of drop end gondolas in all different lengths. The type end I am talking about is, when looking straight at the cars drop end the re-enforcement on each side has two

It is interesting to note that they converted from vacuum to air brakes “under pressure” ;-) Andy Miller

X23 kit Sold. Thank you to all who inquired. Matthew Hurst

Larry, You might look at plans of the earlier Maine 2'-gauge cars. Most of the Maine roads started out with vacuum brakes. Later most converted to Westinghouse, I think under

The Eames vacuum brake only had one pipe which ran end to end. Vacuum brake hoses were somewhat larger and heavier than air brake hoses. The vacuum brake's actuating pistons (which look like a short,

Wow Bill, I had no idea! What a gold mine of precision made junk! :-) https://www.ebay.com/itm/312134661262 Tim O'Connor ============================== -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling,

Thanks Tom (and Dennis), I missed that message... very good pics. Tim -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I'm building seeral freight cars from the PRR narrow gauge lines. All of them were equipped with the Eames vacuum brake system. I have found one diagram showing the piping under the car but it is

Photo of the C&O type is in the 1932 Boxcar book. Look for the "B" end photo of the ERIE car. I modeled using 1.5 Grams of watch parts ordered through eBay. Plenty of actual gears to choose from. Bill