Photo: Chalk Marks On Boxcar This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66138c3 Does anyone have an educated guess (as opposed

Photo: PFE/WP Reefer This is link to a photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tj05h8 Visible among the reefers is PFE 50092, one of the West

Photos: Long Island RR Gondolas In Concrete Mixing Service Photos taken in 1912 from the Arrt's Arrchives website courtesy of J. S. Concrete: https://www.arrts-arrchives.com/images2/ja610scan0022mixer

Evolution Of Delaware & Hudson House Cars This is a link to an article titled, "Evolution of the 40′ Steam Era House Cars of the Delaware & Hudson" from Matt Forsyth's D&H Penn Division blog: http://m

Making Dents & Bulges in Plastic Cars - Techniques? Allowing for differences in plastic composition and thickness in HO scale hoppers and gondolas, what techniques do those of you with experience reco

Thanks for the book tip. Guy. I just bought a print-on-demand copy from Abe Books. Bob Chaparro

Car Classifications For Loads This is a link to a copy of a C&O Empty Car Bill from the C&NW Modeling Blog: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ieeEFKtaZxY/UZmBmAocWdI/AAAAAAAAEhA/6H7fYj644-E/s640/C&O+Empty+Car

Chart: U.S. Forces Railcar Ownership The chart on this link is from an article, Defense Freight Car Operations Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by George Gounley: https://alu.army.mil/alog/issues/janfeb

Photo: GACX 42594 - Airslide Hopper A Jim Parker photo taken in 1956 of possibly the only freight car that would arrive in town with a police escort. I believe Con-Cor and Athearn both produced HO sca

Great Northern Railway Newspaper Ad: Post-War Boxcar Shortage A link to an advertisement placed in the Minneapolis Moring Tribune, August 26, 1946: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31350702/star_tribun

Seatrain Diagrams Below are two Seatrain diagrams from the collection of Ralph Heiss which show how boxcars were loaded and secured in a ship. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

"I'm trying to figure out what you thought that IM would replace your car WITH?" That would have been up to them. Maybe they did have a car with correct stenciling, though not likely. Maybe another pr

I checked my collection of prototype Swift reefer photos and found nine steel-sheathed cars, all in the 15XXX series, that had only two hinges per door. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I bought two Intermountain PFE ice service reefers a few years ago. When they arrived, I noticed the reweigh date was OLDER than the built date. A complaint lodged with Intermountain generated a meek

Photo: DL&W Boxcar 12448 Good roof and end views of this car: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-11-15-19/X8017.jpg http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-11-15-19/X8016.

Photo: Tank Car With Full Hand Railings A 1955 photo from Riley Triggs' Port of New York blog: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CZsX-F4jSe0/VQeUHnm9mJI/AAAAAAAAESQ/iUKe53LG-zQ/s1600/Roster%2Bat%2BGeneral%2BF

Photo: Gun Barrel On Flat Cars Photo taken at the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Yard, Los Angeles: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mtcPFD6LBeI/TZUQcJ50CPI/AAAAAAAAN8s/Vj20tEdXvTw/s1600/1917-03-24_FortMa

Boxcar Car Stenciling Practices I've notice in builder's photos steam and transition era boxcars have a stencil stating "New" with a month and year which appears just above the sill to the right of th

Revenue Divisions Between Railroads This is part of a discussion on the CB&Q Group about car routing. What caught my eye was the mention about revenue divisions between railroads being confidential. S

Some of you old timers (such as myself) might remember that Athearn produced an HO scale truck frame with a black rubber insert block that vaguely resembled the two metal coil springs it was designed