I'm sure you do Tim... but it will be of an Alberta Gas Chemicals car. The AGCX reporting marks were resurrected in 7/1978 for Alberta Gas Chemicals, who then transferred their fleet to Procor in 4/19

Further to the AGCX ownership comments: My 7/1923 ORER shows the AGCX reporting mark as belonging to the Akin Gasoline Co., from 7/1937-1/1950 to the Ohio Tank Car Co., from 1/1952-7/1960 to the Vendo

Tom Olson refers to articles submitted to the Keystone that made the editor cringe -- at CN LINES we refer to them as "article kits". We get a partially-written article, a few photos, and an expectati

Bob, Andrew Merrilees died in 1979, with much of his material going to the National Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada) in 1983. They have a web site at: http://www.collectionscanada.

I don't think Andrew Merrilees archived his material according to source. Having seen the storage boxes at the National Archives, they seem to be grouped alphabetically by owner (mostly, as there are

It's been on my web site since way back when -- it's currently at: www.nakina.net/fclorer.html I can't say that it has been updated in some time (aside from my own holdings). Ian Cranstone Osgoode, On

There was a time when some of the large entries would provide an actual effective date for their roster (I believe the New York Central system did so), and I seem to recall that generally their effect

Actually these cars underwent some serious renumbering during their lives. As far as I can tell, as they were modified (with larger doors, or possibly raised roofs), they would be renumbered, and unde

Very simply. These weren't considered private reporting marks, just a different reporting mark for the Santa Fe. Cars with these marks appeared in their section of the ORER with all of their ATSF cars

Imperial Oil had one of the earliest fleet of tank cars in Canada. At some point they and the Transit Company fleet were merged -- I suspect that the Transit Company was a lessor much like UTLX, GATC,

Actually there were three groups of these cars: 25 74'5" cars were constructed by Canadian Car & Foundry in 10-11/1956 under lot 2141 at 570400-570424. 50 more were built in 4/1959 under lot 2257 (570

A quick look at my reporting marks list shows that the MOBX reporting mark was first listed in 4/1960. Tim Gilbert noted that MOBX was not listed in his 4/1961 ORER, but this is incorrect -- in fairne

Hi Rob: I've just rediscovered a photo buried deep on my hard drive which you will doubtless find interesting -- a close look at the photo shows a tank pressure test of 4-xx-10 (presumably April 1910)

On 21-Apr-05, at 12:43 PM, Richard Hendrickson wrote in response to Tom Olsen: A quick look at my reporting marks listing (http://freightcars.nakina.net/report.html) shows that Rohm & Haas were using

I'm glad you found it useful Tom, that's what it's there for -- and I don't have to imagine the time it took to do it! Actually, tracking the reporting marks down is easy -- every ORER has a listing i

You must have just missed in Shawn — I see an entry for the Commodities Car Co., Inc. on page 649, with what I presume are the relevant cars listed in various series from CMWX 106-153. It would seem t

I had a quick look at my list of reporting marks, and can only find the WEOX ones listed. As far as I can tell, WLOX has never been used. Since I have referenced issues from 1941 and 1943 in the prepa

Gene Green asks: In this case, no. The U.S. Army assigned Txx numbers to test vehicles, and only assigned the Mxx numbers after they had been given production status. If these are the same vehicles re

Interesting -- let me know what you see. I've been working on the Canadian tank cars story for a while, and it was very interesting to see a car I knew nothing about (and I suspect will know very litt

Rob, this is a very interesting shot -- I've looked through a lot of equipment registers over the years, and have never seen this car listed. There was a BCER 101, but it too was a propane car built b