Rich's 1962 photo of CMWX 1001 shows a 40-foot box car with stenciling that reads Chateau Martin lettering. It's now there, along with another new photo from Brian Ehni. See http://tinyurl.com/yomnqe

Most photos of the CMWX 1000-series cars show Pfaudler cars. But Rich's 1962 photo of CMWX 1001 shows a 40-foot box car with stenciling that reads FRAGILE CONTAINS GLASS LINED TANKS DO NOT HUMP Other

I added the photo of the Chateau Martin car in New York City to my Chateau Martin web page: http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/chatmart/cmwx_roster_1.html The page also includes other new phot

Thanks Robert (and others) for your help. With your description I was able to get a similar view from the Street View option on Google Maps. See http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/chatmart/goo

I bought the slide on Ebay for $1.99. The slide is Anscochrome and was processed by Pavelle Color (which was in New York City). The slide is undated but a NY Times Business and Finance section article

I have obtained a photo of a Chateau Martin wine car in a train of reefers. The photo is at http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/chatmart/cm_in_train_001.jpg Does anyone recognize the location?

I used to see lots of 50' boxcars, particularly from southern roads, spotted at a Levitz furniture warehouse on the SP Huntington Beach branch. Jim Lancaster

I have added more roster information to my Chateau Martin wine car web page at http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/chatmart/cmwx_roster_1.html The data was extracted from ORERs and now covers 1

One new photo shows CMWX 119 with an unusual slogan on the side. Another new photo shows CMWX 1003 with its former milk car lettering painted out and hand lettered reporting marks. See http://www.geoc

Garth, Take a look at http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=949 and http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=950 These are conventional tank cars loaded with wine but the trai

From time to time there have been questions about the Chateau Martin wine cars owned by the Commodities Car Company (reporting marks CMWX). Using ORERs I have compiled a roster of the CMWX car fleet f

I took this photo on Cajon Pass in 1964: http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/cp/cajon_pass_6 -64_03_jl_ps.jpg I'd like to know a little about the NYC box car. It looks like a rebuild. Jim Lanca

wrote: I have one of the cars. It is lettered SOUTHERN PACIFIC (with a line over the name), numbered 81936 (with a line under the number), class B-50-22, BLT 8-41, with a reweigh date OAK 5-48. Jim La

I have added two new photo pages to my web site. The first has some photos of heavyweight SP passenger cars, mostly Harriman, taken by Steve VanDenburgh. The second has photos of an SP freight train w

I have added two new photo pages to my web site. The first has some photos of heavyweight SP passenger cars, mostly Harriman, taken by Steve VanDenburgh. The second has photos of an SP freight train w