What's your definition of "low"? David Thompson

"Pretty ratty condition by 1921, given it is less than a decade old!" In more normal times, the car would have been repainted before it got to that state, but World War I didn't allow the time or reso

"The next car to the left is a 34xxx series car from the 34001 - 34568 group built by Western Steel Car in 1913. The cars received new bodies with rebuilt arch bar trucks. The sides of the cars were s

The 11-foot eaves-height Gla-type hoppers were built primarily for the Interstate in 1920-23, along with a few piggyback industrial orders. For posterity: 10'-eh Gla-type ****** C&O 24000-24499 PSC,2-

C&I 1500-3399 were similar to the Gla in most respects, except for the extra 5 inches in height. This is why the capacity is 1817 cf, versus 1683 for the Gla proper. David Thompson

I'm reasonably convinced these WSS boxes were closely related to the N&W class BS boxes and built by Roanoke sometime in the late 1920s. David Thompson

They are nice cars, I'm planning on getting one... IF I ever find a valid number for a plain GATX tank. I'm not interested in any tanks with billboard lettering or circus colors. David Thompson

The big bolster is the stereotypical Standard Tank Car design, but I'm reasonably convinced this one was built by Pennsylvania Tank Car in the mid-Teens before STC started. David Thompson

I received the kit for the RCW insulated tank yesterday. Turns out the box has a single page indicating that instructions and photos are a PDF file available on the RCW website... which doesn't work.

The initial 1923 proposal didn't get enough votes to pass the first time around, so some revisions were made and it passed in 1924. The changes were fairly minor (truck centers were reduced from 32'6"

The 5' striker was a feature of the 1924 ARA designs, and was revised to 5'6" in 1927. As a side note, the original M26 (no suffix) was based on the rejected 1923 proposal. David Thompson

"The name changed again to Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. in 1929 with the merger with Standard Steel Car Co." The merger was in 1934. David Thompson

8k X-3s were fairly uncommon: 1,675 in two styles, versus 4,150 6k tanks and 12,349 10k tanks. David Thompson

PMcK&Y 61000-61999, NYC Lot 340-H, or PMcK&Y 62000-62999, NYC Lot 349-H, both built by SSC in 1916. http://canadasouthern.com/caso/images/lot-340.jpg http://canadasouthern.com/caso/images/lot-349.jpg

The War Emergency requirements were relaxed in 1944, but thumbing through RPC #29 suggests March would be a bit early for the resumption of all-steel production. Looking through RPC #29 and the 1/59 O

Don't have road numbers, but Railway Age order summaries show 50 8050g tanks ordered in 1918, plus 70 10,000g and 150 8000g tanks in 1919. David Thompson

Maybe. Could just as easily have started as a regular offset-side car. NS 9200-9399 were secondhand leased cars (probably from USRE, and probably rebuilt by them). David Thompson

North American's tank cars were mostly Pressed Steel cars built in the late 1920s. GATX did have some STC tanks from the various smaller fleets they bought up over the years, primarily the ~3000 STCX

Good find. I ordered a set. David Thompson

PRR did a one-off Gla rebuild (Glf) and Stan Rydarowicz made a kit for it at one time. That would be the closest commercial match to the CN/GTW/CV cars. Otherwise, you're on your own for modifying a G