Hi everyone, Just joined the group, thought I'd give a little bit of intro before getting to a question. Though born and raised in North America, I've only recently taken up a serious interest in our

Martin, Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm already a member of that group. Generally to the list, could anyone tell me how I might contact whomever is arranging "Bob's Photo"? Frank Valoczy Modelling

Does anyone know of a source for good photos and drawings of the Hutchins boxcar end? Frank Valoczy Modelling the Piedmont & Northern in TT.

I've managed to piece together some information about P&N freight cars. Dump cars: In the 1931 Car Builders' Cyc there is on page 437 a photo of a Koppel 20 cubic yard dump car, number 8550. Probably

Wow, thanks for that link! It's a bit after my modelling era (1950), but it's P&N so it's interesting. Do you have any information about that photo - where it was taken, and when? Judging from the "NE

Yes, I've seen Bob's Photo list, and will be writing to get copies of those pictures. Art Griffin ( http://www.greatdecals.com/Griffin.htm ) is the only source I've found for P&N boxcar decals; his is

I'd have a couple of questions on these. does anyone know... ...what roofs the Ann Arbor 73750-73998 series had (those of the series with Hutchins ends, if not all had those) ...anything about the ACL

This would apply to me as well, since I am modeling in what is almost purely a scratchbuilder's scale. Thanks for the tip on the lists, I'll check those out presently. Frank Valoczy

I just received a bound volume containing P&N's "Semaphore" magazine, all 12 from 1957. What fortune that there were three photos inside of P&N boxcars - it was in 1957 that they were being refurbishe

I've become a bit puzzled with regards to the Hutchins end after studying the photo someone linked me to from here illustrating the Hutchins end on an Ann Arbor boxcar along with several photos of car

Well, there's no more Piedmont & Northern, and they're cited as being the publisher (no copyright mention anywhere, but I'm not sure that means anything). I'd assume Seaboard Coast Line took over all

Would this still be available through the SRHA? (I understand this was the title of the SRHA magazine before it became Ties? Or am I wrong here?) Thanks for this info! I'll have to do some further res

I'm a bit further puzzled on the matter, as I've seen both varieties referred to both as early and as late. Kinda like saying black is black, and black is white, and white is white, and white is black

<snip> Do you know who else used these, and for how long? Any ideas as to whether any were found on cars in interchange in 1952? On a similar note, I'd be curious about the Van Dorn and the Deco. Who

Ah, yes. I've actually noticed this, but i was rather unclear with my intent. What I meant is, a list of 9-panel Howe Truss cars. Since these are superficially quite similar to each other, I figured a

Thank you for this information, much new and useful data there! Now what would be interesting is to find out what happened to the 15 that weren't sold to the AC&Y. Regards, Frank

Bob, Thanks for those tidbits of info. Completely nothing? I know in later years the P&N's non-interchanged cars were listed in the ORER, but perhaps in 1941 none of the online-use cars were listed? I

Yeah... the first reference I found to a "Vulcan end" was a comment regarding it being "almost indistinguishable from" a Murphy end (IIRC) of some sort - this was on the Rensselaer site. So initially

Not sure how this fits, or how much this was an actual policy, but in the back of my '53 ORER reprint there's this list of order of preference for loading cars... won't reproduce it here, but basicall

Hi group, On page 437 of the 1931 (or was it 1932?) Car Builders' Cyc is a photo of a 23' 3" IL dump car built by Koppel Industrial Car & Equipment Co. for the Piedmont & Northern. I've started workin