Thanks! Al

Hi folks, I have a yard drawing of the East Lexington, Virginia, yard calling out platforms with swing pipes for pumping out tank cars of home heating oil to tanks on concrete piers. Did they drop a p

You might want to check out the Pere Marquette's flat cars circa WW2. My PM Freight Cars book is buried I hope back in the spare room closet. Al Kresse

Hey Folks, When did the railroads have to replace their old "stud switches" with modern switches with frogs? Al Kresse

The C&O's Hinton, WV, station had a small icing dock next to the depot. It re-iced the kitchen car ice-bunkers through the roof. Al Kresse From: "Paul Catapano pc66ot@... [STMFC]" To: stmfc@

Steve, On the C&O's Goshen (three-rail) Branch, the 3-foot narrow gauged line shared one track with the standard gauged line from 1880s through pre-WW1. Apparently the branch-line rails were close eno

HOW DOES ONE COPYRIGHT INDIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHS? Person A sends me scan of his photo that he took years ago and then sells the original negative on eBay. Can I use it in a magazine with A's credit? Neit

That is way ahead of the C&O. C.P. Huntington believe the railroads only needed to get New River coal down to the barge loading facilities and then let the more efficient Ohio River carry it to the ma

Railroads didn't want to give up on their parts investments in archbar trucks in 1905-ish timeframe. Even early cast frames were designed to utilize the journal boxes from old trucks (started on C&O a

I believe they were wooden flat-bottom gondola cars . . . about ready to bust in the middle. Good catch. The C&O kept 40-ton wooden FB gons and hopper cars around through WW One to meet demand for mor

Exterior versus interior dimensions. Al Kresse

That is an AMC Mechanical Dept Drwg Series Number. Al Kresse

Thanks Rich, I see that modern (offered today by Greenville) have long stroking end-of-car cushioning devices. Where the full under-frame cushioning devices too complicated? . . . not cost effective?

My hopes are whoever is left might have some of the old studies from their beginnings in the backs of their file cabinets. I believe Western Reserve University near Cleveland did a lot of the original

Tim, OK . . . post-Duryea under-frame cushioning. C&O pulled all of theirs out of their box cars I believe. Who, TODAY, makes under-frame and end-of-car cushioning devices that might have some pricing

Thanks Eden, The 1954 date is important. I am working on the C&O's 50-foot box cars so equipped with both under and end cushioning. We don't have formal cost sheets this late in the game -- 1961. They

It appears hydraulic cushioning-patents go back to 1939 and then it gets serious around 1954 with UP order. Al

At the end of the steam era the merchandise freight service got more specific/competitive and the railroads began to consider end-of-car and under-frame cushioning systems. Is there a good study that

The AMC designs tended to be AAR designs with a few Specialty changes. Al Kresse

The C&O 132500, 133500, and 133900 series twin, offset side hops blt 1937-1940 had radial ends with vertical braces. Al Kresse