And here's one big part of getting all those Imperial Oil tanks done! Thanks! Re Archer making a tank car set, hopefully it'd come; I've heard it took considerable effort to convince him to make the N

And don't forget the Dominion/Fowler cars, which are to Canadian-proto modelling probably more important than PRR is to US-proto modelling (I do *not* mean that as an anti-Pennsy thing!! *g*) - and lo

One other thing I'd like to mention: Yes, in many cases it's not very convenient to search archives for specific things. But: it is there and *accessible to the public*! And THAT is the key important

transport to the archives, and now the order in which they were so tossed is sacred. Merrilees collection but there is no telling that to the archival Nazis there. In defence of LAC, a few comments. I

The Piedmont & Northern also had an almost identical design, 165 of them in interchange service until 1936, when 150 of them went to the AC&Y. I don't know what happened with the other 15. The first 1

Not all were door-ends; in fact, I'm fairly certain the PM's cars with the 8+8 ends did not have any end doors at all, just solid ends. The car in the photo is a PM car. There were several variants of

These are the PM's USRA DS clones - both in the first image you linked to are. The first batch of them had the vertically-ribbed 8+8 Vulcan ends, and the latter batch had the early Hutchins end visibl

Steve, My guess, to judge from both what the earlier-mentioned C&O employee and the hints in the photograph suggest, is that the meaning of the entry is that the car is insulated, and used for transpo

If it'd make a difference... the latices in question would probably be things like unfinished (i.e., uncoagulated) styrene-butadiene or other synthetic rubbers. The liquid output after the ingredients

This is the plural I have fairly consistently found in the relevant technical literature that I have consulted. As to its origin, I don't know, I've worked mostly with Finno-Ugric languages, not Roman

Steve, Thanks for that. I'm curious, though: latex lining? Hearing from someone who worked for the C&O and did extensive switching work at the Polymer Corp. plant at Sarnia, they moved a lot of latice

In looking through old annual reports of the Polymer Corporation, Ltd. of Sarnia, Ontario, I found a photo of a UTLX tank car, #25100, wearing Polymer Corp.'s "Polysar" logo. I've scanned it and uploa

Lacking the ability to read the text printed on the car, is there a way to tell apart cars built by CC&F from cars built by NSC? According to Canadian Railway & Marine World, in 1916 there were two ta

As I understand it, wood underframes were banned in the US in 1931; there was some extensive discussion of that and the problems it would raise to Canadian roads in some 1930 issues of Canadian Railwa

In going through early editions of Canadian Railway & Marine World I found a monthly column about freight car distribution, which may be of some help in discussing the question. I didn't print every c

I've been going through early editions of Canadian Railway & Marine World, and I found a little snippet that made me curious: how common was such a thing, and why was it such a big deal? This text is

Thanks for the answer, Ian. The photo in Canadian Railway & Marine World, January 1917 issue, shows a build date of November 1916 for this car. Frank Valoczy Vancouver, BC Frank Valoczy Vancouver, BC

Did DW&P freight cars ever undergo a renumbering? I found a builder's photo of DW&P 30426, a 36' double-sheathed truss-rod boxcar built in November, 1916, and am wondering if this might not later have

I've posted a photo from the National Archives of Canada into the "Frank's Randomness" folder in the files section, and would have two questions. 1: Does anyone know of photos and other information re

Yeah, of the stock cars I hadn't yet started - I was sticking with boxcars for the moment - I have photos of Quebec Central, PGE and other Canadian Fowler stock cars, too. But you did remind me that t