Eric, I found the List of Assigned Reporting Marks of Private Car Companies in the Editorial Section immediately following the list of marks assigned to Railroads. It begins on page 1006 of the Oct 43

Eric, Check the listing of reporting marks in the back of your ORERs that are missing the L&S cars. Not all private car owners listings appeared in every ORER. When a company had cars but wasn't liste

Brian, Thanks for posting the family related photo! Although Joshua Hendy was in Sunnyvale at the other end of SF Bay, my layout serves the Kaiser Richmond yards that Hendy made scads of engines for.

Update: Thanks to Jim Gates eagle eyes, I removed the PRR 83589 X25 series I misread as X26 and updated the totals in the text and table. The updated info is in the Blog at the location below. 22201 S

With the pending release of the Rapido SS USRA car, I did a little homework with my October 1944 ORER. I posted a list of the 2305 cars listed there in the following blog post: The Rapido Single Sheat

Nelson, No typing required!. Copied to Word, then search & replace the spaces with tabs, copied into Excel. See attached. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA

Chris, Definitely post war. I don't recall precisely the date that ACL started with the conspicuoty markings but I think it was around 1950. The Santa Fe car looks like it is in the post '47 redder sh

Garth, I have to agree with you and Brian on the fellow in khakis. The MP armband is a dead giveaway. Joint Army-Navy or Army-CG patrols were often used in WWII. It helped defuse things when busting u

27156 is a B-50-12 SS USRA car, while 18489 is a DS B-50-9. The caption states this was a the first shipment of nitrate to the west coast. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights

Claus, The DOWX car is 3814_ with the last digit obscured by the plant piping. It should be an 8000 gallon car with heater coils. 38141 & 38149 were insulated and had a 241 gal domes. 38142-147 were n

Ah, the elusive 0-8-8-8-8-0 in switching service! John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

The National Archives at San Bruno holds records from the Office of Defense Transportation Liquid Transport Department. Among the files are records of tank car movements of asphalt to Hanford Washingt

Tony, That could even be more of a paint out rather than a patch. RGOX --> R OX I'm starting to like the idea. Johnv John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-4

Thanks Dave, I had to start work before I could make that comparison. I concur about the match. John John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

Disappointment, yes and no. Yes about not lettering a car in Andy's colorful livery. No in that I have insight into tank car traffic for my layout. Richfield Oil had a tank farm served by the Santa Fe

Andy, Really cool project. And as I model the Bay Area, I thought it would be appropriate to add a RGOX car to my fleet. Checking the 36 and 55 tank car tariffs RGOX is in the 36, but not the 55. When

Scanning some photos by Raymond V. Pelot of Martinez today, I noticed a pair of Shell tank cars in the foreground. SCCX 1114 was a 7960 gal TMI with heater coils and a 345 gal dome. The silver Shell c

Garth, Oct 44: TKX 300, 600, 2 cars. remittances to Thomas Keery Co., Inc. owner (shipper) Hancock, NY John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

Steve, 811 cars of the same dimension and series 8101 to 9299 were listed in the October 1944 ORER and 805 in Jan 43, while the Jan 53 issue had 1396 cars in the 8101 to 9600 series. John Barry ATSF N

The boxcars in the background are led by a CB&Q car in two of the cuts. And, if my eyes don't deceive me, they all have truss rod underframes. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freig