Clark Propst asked: Like tin cans going to a cannery? My understanding is inbound cans were shipped in regular boxcars that were then reloaded with the output of the cannery. Frankly, I think furnitur

Assuming the photo date is correct, this odd tank car still had a K-brake system in August 1959. Were tank cars exempted? And I wonder what's with the funky longitudinal pipe atop the tank? No placard

Slowly crunching through my backlog of resin kits and got to the F&C rebuilt war emergency gon with steel sheathing. Making it into an NYC version. A quick look at the Jan 1970 ORER shows the survivor

http://rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie15850lba.jpg Anybody have any idea what this was used for? Scott Chatfield

http://mlkshk.com/p/16AF1 http://mlkshk.com/p/16AF0 Fowarded to me by a non-rail friend. Mlkshk (milkshake) is a fun site with the occasional railroad picture. I don't recall any discussion of this ca

I have the Tichy USRA steel-side rebuilt single-sheathed boxcar kit, #4032. I know the Georgia had them, I even shot one years ago in MofW service. But since I live in Georgia everyone here has one of

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Slide-MP-Missouri-Pacific-Scale-Monitor-Car-15504-Butler-WI-2005-/361410852502?hash=item5425c3f696:g:s0sAAOSw~gRV2Ujg I'm talking about the design of the sides. Can't

A friend is curious if anyone knows what style roof FGE's former Pennsy R7 ice reefers had. One of them appears in those Pittsburgh produce terminal photos, and we can't tell if the roof has a center

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Orig-Slide-WC-Wisconsin-Central-10K-Water-Tankcar-918049-in-1991-Ex-MILW-RD-/381425640539?hash=item58cebd645b Am I safe in assuming that this is one of those "war emergency" ta

Does this boxcar end have a name? Any models of said end? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Erie-75656-1923-ARA-design-box-car-8x10-builders-photo-/371433789543?hash=item567b2dd867&nma=true&si=Tbo8znnV%252FYaw2

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Boston-Maine-B-M-0252-36-double-sheathed-box-car-5x8-photo-/121761965803?hash=item1c599426eb&nma=true&si=Tbo8znnV%252FYaw2fBfzubIP5W4oKA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047

I don't recall ever seeing any discussion of these cars. They appear to have been steel underframe single-sheathed boxes that have had steel panels added to the outside of the original trusses. Or wer

http://www.corbu.us/Garys-L&N/Garys-L&N.html The photo near the bottom of the page looking down the tracks in a yard (Bluefield WV on the N&W perhaps?) nicely illustrates the different sizes of coal t

Don Valentine wrote: You might want to take a look at photos of freight trains on the Talullah Falls RR. Almost all of them in the '50s show at least one NP and one MILW boxcar. The monads make the NP

From Ted Culotta's collection: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nickel-Plate-NKP-71143-48-mill-gondola-8x10-photo-/371417206607?hash=item567a30cf4f Don't recall seeing this design before. Any insights? Scott C

Jim Mischke asked: and Ben Hom answered: Ben is correct. Stewart provided plain or roller bearing ASF A-3 trucks depending on roadname. For a long time these were the only 70-ton A-3s available. The T

Jim Mischke asked: When I researched the kailon business 25 years ago I found an circa-1960 textbook that contained exactly one paragraph on kaolin slurry. Translation: for a 1964 layout slurry was no

Thanks for the answers and the photo regarding the Mobilgas tank car scheme. To follow up, the model is well on its way to becoming an ACFX welded phosphoric acid tank. Seems its previous owner was a

Over the years I've picked up several old "trainset quality" tank cars that have features or appearance noticably different from the Athearn single-dome tank car that you see _way_ too many of on most

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: From the curved loading tracks I didn't think it was an NYC yard, but it surprises me to see several NYC Pacemaker boxcars on the Lackawanna. And yes, my western-trained eyes