At the 10:35 mark there is an interesting shot of a bundle of timbers being loaded through the end door of an auto car. First time I've seen this done with machinery rather than by hand. Mike Aufderhe

Thank you Chuck Peck, that makes a lot of sense. Mike Aufderheide ---In STMFC@..., <lnnrr152@...> wrote : Mike, While I would not entirely rule out a L&N/ C&EI routing as a reason for the

Alex, Regarding coal in western Michigan on the NYC, some of this would come up the Monon A-branch and be interchanged with the MC in Michigan City. One set of conductor logs show the following road's

Clark, Branchline did issue the series after this-Lot 763-B.....if you can find one on ebay, etc. It looks to be identical to the lot you asked about with the possible exception of handbrake and runni

Bill, Since no one has chimed in on this, I will tell you what little I know about this. I've collected Monon photos for about 15 years and have never come across photos of the cars you are asking abo

Scott, Take a look at Google street view. The building is still there! Eureka! Mike Aufderheide

It might also be that the boxcar happened to be at the site of a railroad/auto or wagon accident. I've seen many great photos of interesting, but unremarkable, places thanks to legal dept. photographe

Claus, Thank you very much for the great photo. Monon freight car photos are rare from this era. BTW what I have on this series: 26000-26999, built 1913 by ACF, 40 ft, 50ton, drop bottom. A similar se

Are those brake shoes stacked up like firewood? Mike Aufderheide

Dave, I agree that transcription is a very valuable tool the prototype modeler. I have three Monon logs logged into excel which makes it very easy to sort the entries to see trends in car type, road n

Tony, I thought about NYC, and Rock Island is attractive too, especially with Jerry Glow's decals. I have several NYC gons already and none of the IHB. I have the idea of waybilling structural shapes

Doug Harding said: "Bob I have never located a photo of a prototype “gut gon”. " Doug, If you have them, take a look back at the Keystone Modeler gon series. One of these showed an offal gon being mod

Motivated by the recent article in RPC 28, I've decided to decorate the Tichy model of a 50 foot war emergency gon I've been working on for the IHB. The Monon I model interchanged with the IHB daily a

Rob, Thanks for the great link! There is another film worth watching on this site: https://www.nfb.ca/film/train_406 Many many STMFC! Mike Aufderheide

Randy, Andrew Dahm of Westerfield Models posted a few weeks ago that he offers Hutchins roofs as a separate part. I would give you a STMFC message number to refer to, but I cannot figure out how to se

Has anyone used Branchline's reefers as a kitbash into another prototype than NWX/URTX?. I'm thinking along the lines of the Bruce Smith, Greg Martin and Bill Welch conversions of Accurail's cars. Reg

All, I came across some photos I took a few years ago of a CNW stock car and and unidentified reefer being used as a shed just south of Monon Indiana. I thought the group would enjoy seeing them and m

The other reason to buy the kit is the relatively easy conversion to a single compartment car with Archer rivets and a new dome. It is nice to have a 6,000 gallon tank as a starting point and a frame

The CIL 2000-3600 cars were 36' howe truss cars built in 1912, some were rebuilt with new center sills and ends in the twenties. The original series was numberexd 2000-2899, when rebuilt they were num

Scott, There is one of the car new on the F&C site: http://fandckits.com/HOFreight/6250.html I would love to see a photo of this car in the late '40s. My suspicion is that the "Quick Dispatch" logo wa