It is hard to tell for sure, but the window appears to be brought away from the side enough that the truss member is continuous behind the windows. This is certainly a more elaborate boxcar rebuild th

Looks like an NP 82000 - 83000 stock car to me. Charlie

Unless I wanted the pattern to be permanently mounted on the mold box bottom, I used plain white wood glue. Also used white glue to hold the box sides on the bottom. Easy clean up and not effected by

On highway 6 a few miles north of Albany there is an ATSF stock car as part of a historical marker. Charlie, on the old Orient line

Did you take pictures of the MKT caboose as well? Charlie

Stock cars with steel frames, wood sides, ends, and roofs lasted into the end of stock trains (late ‘60s at least). Wood body box cars with steel center sills (NP, GN) lasted till the end of this foru

Well the water filled tender is between the locomotive and tank car. Does that count? Charlie

Thanks to all for the info. Is there a good photo of a 5xxxx series type X published somewhere? I’d like to have one of these in my O scale roster one day. I already have a type V built from a On3 kit

Bruce, You are correct. I’ve since located my copy of the Speedwitch tank car manual and they describe that as a mid-height walkway. Charlie

There is a high walkway UTLX tank car in this photo: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Negative-Southern-Pacific-Railroad-Steam-Locomotive-2769-Lake-Tahoe-Branch-/271694384724?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f4

That appears to be a UP caboose converted from a boxcar. The SP had a large number of very similar boxcar cabooses. Charlie

They appear to be mostly SP 12500 gal. tank cars for hauling oil. Charlie

There is some mystery there. Why would a car load of grain or whatever be at this street side team track and have a professional photographer there to take multiple photos of the event? Charlie

All the other model railroad paint brands (Floquil, Polyscale, Testers, etc.) are or have been available in Texas hobby shops and Walthers and Micro-Mark have shipped these paints to Texas (via UPS or

Weaver won’t ship to Texas. Their policy. You can have a hobby shop outside Texas ship it to you or have some friend living outside Tex. get it for you. Charlie in Texas --- still using Scalecoat that

The curved handrails on the car side and the outside vertical rail on the platform handrail was painted white. All other grab irons and railing was body color. Charlie

Well if the "majors" are not excluded, then the T&NO branch lines in Texas and Louisiana would fit all those "druthers". Charlie

Yes. Thank you for posting that web site. Several interesting freight car photos. I was intrigued by the UTLX triple dome tank car photo also in that collection. It had been converted to haul bulk cem

I thought the collision was done on an O scale layout. But the film was very interesting and not just because of the freight car shots. Charlie

I was also mystified by that 'only one door open'. I can't see how that could be done. Anybody familier with that mechanism? Charlie