Fred, From the 1936 tank car capacity tariff NIPX 6, 7 & 8 were heater coil equipped two compartment cars with shippers gauge shell/dome capacities as follows: NIPX 6 A-4951/226, B-4948/226, total-989

Nearly everyone on this list is eligible, no association with an academic institution required if they obtain a reader identification card from the Library of Congress. The process is found at their w

Bob, Many, if not most roads had forms like this. Such cards were used for movement and return of empties. Some roads didn't fill them out until the loaded car was at it's destination and the clerk or

Folks, Peter Aue created original artwork and made a set of Buy War Bonds decals for me a couple years ago. With the recent discussion we have teamed to offer HO versions of the slogan applied to 368

The Blackhawks move West The Blackhawks move West The 86 th Infantry Division was my dad’s unit, at least the one he went into combat with in 1945. He didn’t s... On the 74th anniversary of the second

Thanks to input from a couple folks, I corrected an error in my original post and have added a car I missed and the vehicle registration numbers to the spreadsheet and included some limited modelling

In the fall of 1943, the 941st Field Artillery deployed from Camp Polk LA to the Desert Training Center at Freda CA on Santa Fe's Parker Branch. I found a memorandum copy of the Government Bill of Lad

Ah, overexposure of the one clean car while the rest of the image is right. Film and eyes playing tricks on my mind. Thanks for confirming the orange tone that "looked" yellow to me. John Barry ATSF N

Spen, It's a Jack Delano photo from his 1943 trip for OWI on the Santa Fe. I'm not saying the freshly washed PFE car wasn't orange, just that to my eye, it was less so than I would have expected. John

Tony, I do agree that we need a LOT more weathering! At least in the war era. I really liked the contrast on the ART reefer where the brakies have rubbed off the grime behind the grab irons. The first

In one of the few instances where I would point you at Shorpy rather than the original at the Library of Congress is a retouched version of Jack Delano's color photo of a UP Challenger at Alray with a

Tom, The original Duryea design had "open" cross bearers as shown in the photo on Gene's proto 48 blog https://www.proto48.org/images/articles/art07-07-1500.jpg. The Bx-26 class built in 1936 and the

Obviously meat reefers were routed from the large packing houses to the distributors, but who were the distributors? I'm beginning to think that the large brands such as Swift, Cudahay, etc. shipped t

Spen, You were the first to tie in the PLANT, which completed the story linking to Texas. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Caen, Normandy where B-24s missed the bridges and

Spen, not the ((-№"₦@: auto correct mis-spelling John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Caen, Normandy on my cell phone 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736 ------

Ding, ding , ding Spend is a winner! The photo location is inside AF plant 4 located adjacent to Fort Worth Army Airfield, later Carswell AFB, and now Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. The government own

The Railway Accounting Rules that Guy referenced were updated and reissued as needed, usually annually in the period of our list. It is divided into mandatory and recommendatory accounting rules. Mand

Thanks Tim! I was able to see the steam here car bearing the beer that made Milwaukee famous slogan from the city that made the recipe. John, sharing some of Paul's pain viewing steam here freight car

Santa Fe purchased 3000 50' boxes between 1909 and 1930: Class Blt Orig 1929 Fe-K 1909 500 462 Fe-K 1910 500 476 Fe-M 1910 500 479 Fe-Q 1924 500 499 Fe-R 1926 500 498 Fe-S 1928 500 500 Fe-U 1930 500 T

Garth, Bruce might well weigh in on the palatablity of said advertised brews. Jeff and Mike might find the keys should said Vesty promulgate his future craft beers here. I may agree with the character