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

Bruce, The Oct 43 ORER includes Sayre, OK with the July, 1945 ORER listing of home points for United Carbon Company: Borger, Texas; Indiana Harbor, Indiana; Kosmos, Texas; Milton, Pennsylvania; Sanfor

Garth, Despite the pesky pipe, I read the number as Erie 37511, as documented in Steve's diagram and line 46, page 174 of the Jan 53 ORER. It's listed as an HT; Hopper, 4 hopper Cross Dump, All Steel,

Charlie, I have the Epson V800 and have had good success with prints, negatives, slides, documents and maps. With the slide frame I was able to quickly scan a loaned collection of about 50 slides in a

No Schuyler, It SEAMED like a good idea. Seriously, I was impressed by the detail of the roof construction. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

Doug, What was the date of the Cudahy map? They have a spot listed on the 1928 version of the SP San Francisco Industry Map on the State Belt, said industry not listed on the 1944 version. John John B

Bill, I second that emotion! The work is encyclopedic. Thank you Pat Wider! John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026

Dave, The procedures for granting an exemption or extension back in the day would have been dictated by the ICC, most likely in their rules of practice. Since 1946, those procedures have been governed

Al, Greg had a number of those ends cast and they were available through him. I picked up one of if not the last one that he had at CCB this year. Greg had also been working on masters for the slightl

I should have added that it was an FGEX reweigh symbol. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736

Schuyler, I can't answer the color question, but referencing the Station & Reweigh Symbols spreadsheet previously discussed shows PLT to be the symbol for Plattsmouth, NE. John Barry ATSF North Bay Li

I have one of the Crown Custom Imports models of the X30 in the Later Oxide Red-Later Keystone. Before I strip and repaint as shown below, does anyone have one in Circle Keystone that they are willing

Nice job Chuck. Thank you for the end view on the prototype. I too have a couple pairs of the spiral ends that I intend to modify the Intermountain car. We discussed these Monon cars a couple years ag

Bob, That number is in fact, a Bx-O, 11 of which remained in the series 32343-35199 in Jan 45. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 W

Barriger-unknown263 Barriger-unknown263 Explore barrigerlibrary's photos on Flickr. barrigerlibrary has uploaded 47324 photos to Flickr. Undated photo from the Barriger library, but post 44 as P&LE 40

Inspired by Ted Culotta's Light Room Clinic and Michael Gross's post about the capabilities of Photo Shop Elements, I did a little experimenting this morning and written a blog post about it. Through

Good news for the thirteen folks that identified themselves in need of an underframe for the 2020 Shake and Take Bx-34 project: your underframes are the mail for priority mail delivery. This still lea