Photo: Santa Fe Automobile Boxcar Class Fe-N (Circa 1930s) A photo from the Arizona Memory Project: https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/collection/ahfrein/id/147/rec/112 Revisiting a previous post

Photo: Frisco Boxcar 126772 & Gondola 53222 (Circa 1940s) A photo from the University of Texas Libraries: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/sites/library.uta.edu.digitalgallery/files/20080000-200

Photo: Mostly Gondolas (Circa 1940s) A photo from the University of Texas Libraries: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/sites/library.uta.edu.digitalgallery/files/20080000-20089999/20089977.jpg Cl

Perishable Protective Tariff No. 11 (1940) For those of you with a lot of reading time on your hands, here is a link to the National Perishable Freight Committee's Perishable Protective Tariff No. 11:

Photo: Burlington FTs With Freight Train (Circa Late 1940s) A photo from the University of Texas Libraries: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/sites/library.uta.edu.digitalgallery/files/20090000-2

Photo: NATX Three Compartment Tank Car 7069 A photo from the University of Texas Libraries: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/sites/library.uta.edu.digitalgallery/files/20090000-20099999/20092635

Actually, for other loads I have seen the strapping brought through the stake pocket and up again to the strapping above the pocket with some sort of fastener connecting the two. I'd probably do this

Boiler Load Project This started out as a simple enough project: Put a Bachmann boiler on an HO scale Red Caboose/InterMountain flat car. I've done a number of flat car loads, including using smaller

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 29274 A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2779 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Part of series 29000-29749.

Loading Ice With Block & Tackle Gear A 1915 photo from the Huntington Library: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/15122/rec/64 Description: "Lordsburg Ice Plant - Men loading

PRECO Fan Ownership A question posted on several other groups. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA ++++ Does anyone know who owned the motors that would be attached to reefers to run the PRECO fans while the cars

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 33000 A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=NS2780 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Cars were forty-two feet lo

A positive message from a Southern California railroad hobby shop owner: https://groups.io/g/ModelRailroadsofSoCalif/message/16456?p=,,,20,0,0,0::Created,,railMaster,20,2,0,80172809 And a story about

Photos: The Doors Not Jim Morrison and his group, but Pullman Standard doors from the Pullman Library: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/P-S-Doors/ Unfortunately, there are no captions for the photos ot

Pacific Electric Agricultural Traffic - 1937 An old post on the PE group from Allen Copeland. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA ++++ PE Hauls Several months ago, while working in the OERM Library with John Smatl

The article on carbon black notes that it is different from soot. This is for the one or two percent of you who may want to know the difference: Carbon black and soot: two different substances - PubMe

Where to inspect the car in R.J. Dial's photos: The Southern California Railway Museum (Formerly the Orange Empire Railway Museum) 2201 S. “A” Street, Perris, CA Map: https://tinyurl.com/y2wzlwj8 (Scr

Thank you, Elden. Many of the improvements to my modeling (still a ways to go) are a result of reading posts on this site. I'm finding satisfaction in making and installing loads in cars. I have a pre

Photo: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Livestock Car 26127 A photo from the Pullman Library: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-N-Q/i-3Q24sX5/buy This photo can be enlarged. Use the down arro

I have used chart tape with success on other projects (See photo). This project involves a large boiler on a flat car (See photo). My original plan was to use Yarmouth Model Works etched brass tank ca