Friends, When I first began dropping in on the Claremont Concord Railroad during our annual family trips to New Hampshire in the 1990s, this unusual boxcar was sitting in the line's tiny yard. It late

Tim, Tony is modestly talking about PACIFIC FRUIT EXPRESS by Thompson, Church and Jones from Signature Press. Maybe he's being modest in not tooting his own whistle. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Bill, Apparently I was mistaken about WM 4201 having Duryea underframes. There is no mention in Ed Hawkins' AAR Boxcar list, or in his All-time Duryea list. That said, missing from the Duryea list are

Roger, Is that a Duryea underframe? Note that the re-stenciled weight data is in a different type style from the original. A neat detail. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Friends, Something nobody has mentioned is that in the early years of the 20th century, some railroads were still buying dry pigment (probably in barrels) and mixing their own paint with linseed oil.

Mike, Do you mean dark like the attached photo? Taken about 1975 in South Los Angeles. Count on 30 years of weathering though. That's spilled dog food on the ground that the forklift operator was goin

Scott and Friends, On page 24 of James H. Harrison's SACRAMENTO NORTHERN GALLERY is a photo showing a CN version of one of these cars in an SN train passing Lake Temescal in the Oakland Hills. The pho

Tony, I am assuming you are talking about a 10' IH, 40' boxcar with W-corner ends that RC is so well known for? If so, go here and you will find that the T&P had four lots of these cars: http://www.st

David, This apparently was a Mt. Vernon stock design built for a number of railroads. Sacramento Northern bought 24 new (later they had more ex-WP cars), the QA&P had a handful, some went to the Monte

Bill, My 1958 ORER lists 79 as still in service from the original 300. Some of these were probably restricted to trap or LCL service by then, though there are no restrictions noted in the listings. Th

Richard, The tanks-interior bulkheads are shown in phantom on the general arrangement diagram I have. There are only two compartments. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Richard, I just looked at another view of this car in my collection, and water capacity is given as 6,960 gallons. Why the difference I don't know, but I throws the figures I gave you into chaos. 😆 Yo

Richard, An interesting question, and certainly and obscure area of study. So let me give you a case to chew on. The WP owned 60 AC&F high-walkway oil tanks of 10,000 gallon capacity, with a 40 gallon

Bob, AFAIK, the WP only applied enameled medallions to their 50' single-sheathed boxcars, wooden cabooses, and some cranes and plows. Just about all their other freight equipment had painted heralds.

Seth, Yes, these are definitely the PS1s that were later marked DODX. When this happened, I don't know. My 1958 ORER still has these cars listed under USNX. A very interesting photo. Thank you. Yours

Scott, These were Pullman-built, circa 1952 or so, and were 10' IH, likely the only 50' low-height PS-1s ever built. Many were used for ammunition (as in aircraft bombs) transport from the Navy weapon

Scott, Shipping fresh fish contaminated a car, and such cars couldn't be used for other commodities until thoroughly cleaned--if ever. Generally fish cars were among the oldest equipment a road owned,

Brent, Actually there is something that can be done with the Athearn car. It is a fair representation of CGTX 55201-55399 used to carry chlorine, as shown in the 1953 CAR BUILDER'S CYCLOPEDIA. No less

Steve, Your research is quite interesting. Please allow me to point out some possibilities, all complete speculation on my part. (a) Sticking railroads with tank cars might not have worked well for th

Clark, Richard Hendrickson wrote an article published in the UNION PACIFIC MODELER, volume 4 (1998) on the Sinclair fleet. According to his article, most of the fleet was composed of GA Type 1917 cars