FEC was assigned 500 single-sheathed boxes in the initial USRA allocation list. The allocations were shuffled several times during 1918-20, and FEC eventually received the 500 USRA ds-based ventilator

List looks good. Only thing I'd add is that I believe Southern rebuilt most of their early steel hoppers into Seley-type cars around WW1. David Thompson

Virginian class G-6B, home built in 1948-9. Larger pic of the group: NWHS VG00263-Photo NWHS VG00263-P... N&WHS Home Search the Archives Modify... Preview by Yahoo David Thompson

And for anyone who's curious, here's the business end. NWHS VG00557-Photo NWHS VG00557-Photo N&WHS Home Search the Archives Modify Search Criteria Search Results Locator Photo - VG00557 Type Picture D

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P&R car is either an HTd or HTf (hard to tell from that angle). Third photo is interesting for the large "COKE" lettering on the H21a, and the N&W HM behind it (which also show up in the first pic). D

The steel hopper with the windup shafts is N&W class HM, built ca. 1910-11. N&W extrapolated the basic configuration of its Seley triples to an all-steel design. Not a true Seley, since he was long go

Morning Sun C&O Color Guide has 12100 and 13130 with the straight-line For Progress logo. David Thompson

As far as I know, the 42' cast flat was unique to UP. New Haven had some 40' GSC flats, N&W had some 48-footers, and PRR and LV had the older-design F30a/d flats, but I think those are it for conventi

Is there any good overview of the various doors Youngstown sold over the years? David Thompson

Quemahoning Coal Co. 501-800, built by SSC in 1905/6. Some of these were sold to RF&P around 1916 and went on to live very long lives. The P&LE hopper in the second pic was built by Pressed Steel in 1

True, but the "car" was something like George Washington's axe by then. Early steel hoppers would typically be torn down to the trucks and rebuilt-in-kind, reusing whatever parts were still in good co

"Steel" in this case probably means steel underframe, as RF&P didn't have any all-steel cabooses until the early 1970s. David Thompson

And to add a little more ambiguity, RF&P records have nine cabooses (not 10) sold to PE in 1950, all of the same design built in 1904/5. PE 1985 at the Orange Empire Railway Museum is representative o

You mean the XM32 box cars? The ends on those were multi-piece inverse Hutchins ends. NKP had some 40' cars with the same setup.David Thompson

The second series shown in the 1925 CBC (also Train Shed 62) looks like a typical KD installation. The drawing for the C&O hopper on the next page includes brake rodding.David Thompson

28.4 Santa Fe SFRD Rr-29 1940 steel reefer, Duryea u’frame, curved map35.1 ACL ventilated box car, O-17, center groove siding, 1919-1950s serif logo 74.1 SFRD Rr-35, 36, 39, 40 steel reefer, Super Chi

*sigh* The perils of the web interface...David Thompson, none of y'all wanted any of those kits anyway :p

Scabby rust would be appropriate for not-so-new hopper cars. Most of the photographic evidence is b&w, though, so it generally doesn't register unless you're looking for itDavid Thompson

Nice find. Definitely some good stuff there, including this one-of-a-kind: HOSPITAL CAR #38000 - CLASS ARA - SIDE VIEW :: Pennsylvania Railroad Negatives HOSPITAL CAR #38000 - CLASS ARA - SIDE VIEW :.