The 1954-1955 P-25d conversions coincide with the opening of the National Gypsum mine and wallboard plant at Shoals, Indiana. As this was the only gypsum shipper on B&O for many years, all or most of

I intend to model traffic to and from the Kendall Oil refinery at Bradford, Pa. The ORER's show about 34-36 Kendall tank cars during the 1950's, although I suspect many of these were very old and used

Years ago, I built a Tichy USRA single sheath boxcar as B&O class M-24 company service boxcar XM3867. Based out of Benwood, W.Va., no windows. XM meant mechanically fit for track speed. I think I woul

Thee are two facets to the answer. B&O M-53 and M-53a wagontop boxcars (built new, 1937-38 and 1941 respectively) began to recieve Youngstown aftermarket doors in 1948, per B&O drawings and cover memo

I understand that the USRA single sheath boxcars were built with Murphy XLa roofs (like Tichy model). Many railroads fitted theirs later with Hutchins dry good roofs (like Westerfield and Accurail). A

I've always noticed that decal backing from most manufacturers is light colored. Light blue, pink, or off white. These can be a real pain with white decals, especially the smaller graphics for repack

I am building on the B&O Modeler article information. Understandably, the article does not reconcile the oval roof hatches, side round hatches, or no hatch configurations seen in photos. And whose hop

Found a little more information. citation: "Box Cars become Gravity-Unloading Bulk Cement Carriers", Concrete - Cement mill Section, feb. 1935, pages 35-37. A light treatment. D&H had 30 such cars. Se

I am very curious about the D&H cement boxcar, a modified USRA single sheathed boxcar, the familiar HO model manufactured by Tichy. B&O had similar cars, classes M-24a and M-24b, modified in 1933, 287

Several thoughts, Bill. You mean B&O C-16 wagontop express cars converted from M-53 boxcars. Technically, these were not REA cars. Just 25 cars (1875-1899) of the 125 total C-16 express cars (1875-199

Andy, the periodic reweighing promotes commercial fairness to shippers and railroads due to modifications, and let's not forget corrosion. If I recall correctly, in the book, Coal Cars, The First Thre

If we rivet counters hadn't complained loud and long for years about detail and accuracy, the manufacturers would still be stuck at a Varney level, if not cardboard sides and baker couplers. Also, the

Indestructable End patent --------------------------------------- Repeated patent searches have uncovered a relevant patent at last. I had earlier stated the Indestructable End may not have been paten

Sometimes the manufacturer gets stuck. I've been on the other side of this. For a year, I operated a partnership with two friends called Keyser Car Shops to produce custom lettered B&O freight equipme

In the book "Focus on Freight Cars, Volume Two: Double Sheathed Box & Automobile Cars", by Richard Hendrickson, published by Speedwitch in 2004, page 27 presents the B&O class M-15F double sheath boxc

The prototype M-26 photo posted in the "B&O Door" folder shows a six panel Superior replacement door. The door that Chad is producing in resin is a five panel Superior door. It is not yet clear the ti

Max, I looked it up. The L&NE doodlebugs 90 and 91 were Brill model 250's, modified with streetcar steps. This information is not in the small L&NE roster in "Doodlebug Country" as I had supposed, thi

Wagontops in 1915? Not true. The B&O rebuilt M-15 double sheathed boxcars of about 1915 vintage into M-15k wagontops around 1935, with RFC government funding. When the funding rules were changed to pe

John Franz of Mount Vernon Shops produces decal sets for the B&O N-34 wagontop covered hopper car. link: http://www.mountvernonshops.com/ I thought he also produces B&O M-53 wagontop boxcar decals (de

This is a bit off topic. This list is for pre-1960 freight cars. Nonetheless, I would field this question, because the research methodology applies. L&NE 90, 91 are gas-electric, not gas-mechanical, l