Photos: C&O Ventilated Boxcars 86796 & 86602 Undated photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/transport/id/8406/rec/1184 https:/

Photo: DT&I Boxcar 8425 (Built 1893) A photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/transport/id/4630/rec/22 This is a very clear ph

Photo: Pacific Electric Flat Car 3643 (F-50-8) A 1923 photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/transport/id/2444/rec/599 This is

Some background on FMC: The California Fruit Growers Exchange encouraged the Food Machinery Corporation to enter the field of citrus machinery. FMC started as a national consolidation of various manuf

Photo: Morris Refrigerator Car 7174 A 1909 photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/transport/id/2565/rec/737 This is a very cle

Photo: Erie Low Side Hopper (Gondola?) With Damaged Floor An undated photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/transport/id/2463/

Photos: T&NO 38781 And SP 26159 (B-50-11 Boxcars) Photos from the Columbus Metropolitan Library. T&NO 38781: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/transport/id/2484/rec/15

Ownership Of Tank Cars In 1950 A list compiled by Jerry Britton: https://jbritton.pennsyrr.com/index.php/tpm/97-interchange-ownership-of-tank-cars-in-1950 This list represents tank cars rostered in No

Comments from the Early Rail Group: The Monterey & Salinas Valley was built to move grain to port. When operating, sporadically from 1874 to 1880, it used every car it had in the annual fall grain rus

Santa Fe only rebuilt part of the fleet to revise the hatch cover openings and that was done, as I recall, only when the cars were generally rebuilt or upgraded. I do not believe there was any program

More Toothpicks A 1919 postcard photo from the Washington State Historical Society: http://www.washingtonhistory.org/imu/api/file/5805 Description: Lithograph colored promotional post card showing thr

Photo: Grain Sacks On Flat Cars A 1909 photo from the Washington State Historical Society: http://www.washingtonhistory.org/imu/api/file/25296 Description: "Postcard (8.5x13.5 cm.) featuring Columbia

The Brinkley Shuttle A story from the Arkansas Railroad History website about an automobile shuttle train that operated in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Full story: http://www.arkansasrailroadhistor

Photo: Santa Fe Bx-3/Bx-6 Boxcar A mid-1950s scene taken at San Bernardino, CA, from the Kansas State Historical Society's archives: https://www.kshs.org/index.php?url=km/items/view/304929 I believe t

Kurtz Kraft PFE Reefer Prototype? Does this HO scale Kurtz Kraft PFE reefer resemble any particular PFE prototype or is it a foobie? https://groups.io/g/RailroadCitrusIndustryModelingGroup/topic/kurtz

Photo LPTC 449 (Poultry Car) A fair quality photo from the Vintage Bentonville website: https://www.vintagebentonville.com/uploads/1/0/7/6/107671135/published/404-watermark.jpg?1519851561 Bob Chaparro

A few years ago I contacted Kadee and they stated their metal wheels are made of zinc. I believe some people have had issues with zinc powder being deposited as a black substance on their track. Bob C

I see Ken Patterson is gushing over the latest InterMountain offerings, including the less-than-perfect PFE reefers, on his "What's Neat This Week in Model Railroading" Show #115: https://www.youtube.

Photo: Hopper Blooper This is a photo from the Erie Lackawanna E-Mail List Photo Archive: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-05-07-20/X0687.jpg I wonder if someone violated Rule G? Bo

Photo: DL&W Gondola 60327 This is a photo from the Erie Lackawanna E-Mail List Photo Archive: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-05-05-20/C2768.jpg I assume this is a gondola and not