oh, I'm in for the Tobin as well as a number of others. Need to get another job to pay for all these meat reefers. Just thankful, there are no Armour schemes or I would be in big trouble. Rich Orr

MRX 5649 is a 40' 11" OL car Rich Orr

Tim et.al.: I won't be in too much of a hurry to say MR and RMC have no value. At the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum, we receive many copies of these magazines as "donations." We bundle th

Mike, You also need to include glossy paper for use in printing magazines. Most magazines in the transition era were printed on a glossy paper to give better half-tone photo reproduction. And don't ex

Try the BBFC list = Baby Boomer Freight Cars It covers steam to 1980 Rich Orr

6/30 ORER list RIRX with the following entry Rock Island Refining CO Reporting Marks -- "R.I.R.X." 500, 501 capacity 8,000 gallons 100,000 pounds 502 capacity 7944 gallons 60,000 pounds 503 to 508 inc

The New River and Pocohontas was a subsidiary of Berwind-White. Thus the same logo on their hoppers. Rich Orr

5th Avenue Carshops did 2 versions of the Kingan's car GARX 9308 KGNX 3816 Both are out of production according to 5th Avenue's website Rich Orr

Bill, Bethlehem Steel was the car builder. No subsidiary that I know of. Most of the Bethlehem facilities in Johnstown, PA were associated with the construction of rail cars to one extent or another.

Tim, Kline and Culotta pg 155 is a side shot of a B&O W-2. This should be available from the NMRA. There are also shots of similar CTSE and B&M hoppers on pg 158 Rich Orr

Yes. The PRR interchanged with RI at Chicago, East St Louis, St. Louis vIa TRRA, Englewood, Peoria and Washington Heights, IL. Rich Orr

The ACL/SAL historical society had NKP products produce the 666 in 2008. According to the flyer announcing the car it was routed ACL to L&N to CB&Q. Rich Orr

Baggage cars were used to transport newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and other specialized time sensitive loads. It was less expensive to ship by rail in bulk to distributed mailing points than to sen

Evan, Is there any routing information on the bill of lading? It would be interesting to know how these cars were routed to the RDG. Particularly since the Reading did not go west of Chambersburg, PA.

UP Historical Society http://www.uphs.org/store/category/?c=7 Rich Orr

Tony, I'm the first to admit I am not that conversant on rivet patterns. The builder's photos which I copied and enlarged to see the overlapping seams are http://prr.railfan.net/freight/freightphotos.

The PRR X38 were built in two groups with differences between the groups. 58XXX series were built in 1940 with 5 panel sides (2 left 3 right of the doors) 5/5 ends AAR side sill X29 type roof and wood

Potomac yard was the only interchange point between the PRR & the RF& P and the B&O and the RF&P. Fairly difficult to move produce to the northeast off the RF&P without using either the PRR or B&O. Th

To add to Tony's question, Did they ship only carload lots to wholesalers or did they ship lcl to retailers as well? Rich Orr

Bill, The 1945 PRR CT1000 (list of stations and billable locations) shows a FGE facility at MP 72.7 with a private siding on the Elmira Branch and an ice house at MP 73.0. This would be miles from Wil