Hello, Bill - Recently I was reading a copy of your article, The WoodSheathed Cars of the FGEX/WFEX/BREX Freight Refrigerator Fleet: 1940-1953. In the middle of Page 16 it reads, "On that same datethe

Caption: "Louisville andNashville Railroad local freight train crosses Cumberland River as it leaves Clarksville, Tennessee,on run to Parisin September 1959. Photograph by J. Parker Lamb, © 2016, Cent

I have several questions about these cars: In what years were they built? How many were built? What were their last years in revenue service? Thank you. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Placards from the MissouriPacific Railroad. These don't say "Dressed Eggs". http://www.ebay.com/itm/c1940-Missouri-Pacific-Railroad-freight-car-card-EGGS-HANDLE-WITH-CARE-/122471648506?hash=item1c83e1

A little more background on this. On August 18, 1918, the United States Railway Administration announced thatthe SFRD (Despatch) would be under Federal control of the USRA effective January 1, 1919. S

What, if anything, is the difference between a route card and a destination card? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

This was taken at the Linde Air Products plant, served by the Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad: http://shawmutline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SKLindeinside.jpg I believe these are technically tanks ca

This tag is self explanatory as to purpose: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/hBYAAOSw64ha1jX5/s-l1600.jpg Does anyone know more about its history and use? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

While certainly neither of these two boxcars were rare, their features do standout among boxcars of their era. Having two of them together probably was not the most common sight on the rails in Ogden:

Here is a link to a brief illustrated history of Pacific Car & Foundry: http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/p/pacific_car/pacific_car.htm The material covers subject beyond the company's construction of rai

Can anyone make an educated guess as to what was the cause of the vertical "scars" on the left side of this boxcar? http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C65055%5CATSF%2042427.jpg Thanks. Bob Cha

Here is a link to some photos of I took yesterday at the Prototype Modelers Meet in San Bernardino: https://groups.io/g/RailroadCitrusIndustryModelingGroup/topic/photos_santa_fe_reefer/18117402?p=,,,2

These, plus two others I photographed poorly and did not post, are HO scale. He did bring a very detailed O scale reefer but it was moved someplace else before I could take a photo. Bob Chaparro Hemet

A couple of view of HPLX 3: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/25611551918/in/album-72157649155982802/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/39450844172/in/album-72157649155982802/

ATSF 38691 has the initials "CT" included in the reporting marks. I'm sure someone knows what this means and can explain it. Thanks. https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/35265821722/in/album-

"This has been discussed in the past and would have been a great test of the new archive search capability." "CT" is a little too vague. My initial search came up with a ton of unrelated material. Bob

I took this picture last year during the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society convention in Tulsa. This is the ONLY stock car interior I have ever seen (unless I was a bull in a previous lif

This is a link to a very informative article by Steve Sandifer and Donald Lake. Other contributors were Keith Jordan, Mike Blaszak, Charles Schultz, Doug Harding, Clark Probst, Linda Sand, George Wall

I've come across conflicting accounts of how beef half sides were shipped in refrigerator cars. One version say the sides were shipped at temperatures below freezing and another version says the sides

This photo is from a Raton, New Mexico, wreck on the Santa Fe around 1910. https://www.ebay.com/itm/RATON-NM-New-Mexico-c1910-RP-Santa-Fe-Railroad-Wreck-4/202306430560?hash=item2f1a672660:g:XoQAAOSwen