This would appear to make sense, as the 1946 Car Builders Cyclopedia shows drawings for only three types of box car roofs, all manufactured by Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Co. with the fol

With that colour number, I am guessing that it is most likely a Sherwin Williams chip. I will try my local SW store to see if they can supply a chip. Cheers, Greg Kennelly Burnaby, BC, CANADA

Yes. The Temiskaming & Northern Ontario (reporting marks TEM), which later became Ontario Northland. Cheers, Greg Kennelly

Many thanks, Steve. I missed those in my search of the ORERs as I was looking for mech. desig. GRA while those are listed as MWB despite having been stencilled "GRA-50-4". The dimensions in the 1943 O

Colin and David, Thanks for the suggestions. I could not find that IC car (by that number at least) in either my 1943 or 1953 ORERs. I found lots of GS and GB IC cars but no GRA. The IC car shows what

In early 1952, the Pacific Great Eastern acquired a group of ten hopper-bottom (GRA) gondolas as shown in the attached photos by the late Bill Hewlett from my collection. In the 1919 Car Builder's Dic

Dennis Storek wrote: "As to side agreements to handle non-compliant cars, someplace I ran into a reference That one of the major Canadian roads agreed to handle non-compliant cars for the Pacific Grea

Thank you, Guy and others who responded to my question. Based on that information, it would seem reasonable to me to expect that a photograph of a STMFC with a repack stencil of 4 Sep 1951 would be da

Was there a regulated interval for repacking plain journals in the early 1950s? If not, what was a typical interval, please? I am hoping to be able to use repack dates to get realistic estimates of th

Many thanks, Kevin. Everything I wanted to know and a whole lot more!! Greg Kennelly

Thanks, Brian. Unfortunately, I do not have a copy of RPC 35. Greg Kennelly

Can anyone direct me to a drawing or direct end view photo for the DECO ends used on the C&O 5400 series 10'-0" IH box cars, please? I would like to model one of these cars in N Scale using the IM 10'

Many thanks, Roger. That 21st car makes me wonder if PGE number 807 was to have been used for that car but, for some reason, they never showed it in the “Equipment Record” book. At some point, I will

Further to my earlier post regarding the PGE’s 40' wood refrigerator cars, I have come across an old notebook with some information I extracted more than 45 years ago from a Pacific Great Eastern Rail

Thanks to Ed and Roger for the information in their posts. To round out the story on PGE wood refrigerators, here are a couple of Ernie Plant photos of the other two series: 801 - 803, built new for t

To amplify a bit on John Riddell’s comments, this group of twenty cars, 808 - 827, was purchased second-hand and received by the PGE in the 1947-48 time period. While these cars, built in 11-22, are b

Many thanks, Ed Greg Kennelly Burnaby BC Canada

To assist in the tracking the development of a specific freight car fleet, would anyone be able to provide a scanned copy of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway entry from the April 1947 ORER, please? I

Many thanks, Ian. Exactly the information I was looking for. Greg Kennelly

From 1927 - 1952 inclusive, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway listings in the ORER contained only a "Recapitulation of Car Equipment" rather than full number series and dimensions. I have a copy of an