Those look suspiciously like Westinghouse transit couplers. Was a time that subway cars were delivered on their own wheels, and these look like the adapter cars to allow them to couple to the train. D

Rob, Any thoughts on the color of this car? Since the side lettering is so dark, the sides must be light colored... yellow, maybe? Meanwhile, with white numbers on the end, the end is likely freight c

Given the year and local, I would be moren inclined to think wooden gons rather than hoppers. Dennis Storzek

The original name of the line was Lewiston Augusta & Waterville, which pretty much describes where it ran. It failed in 1919 and was renamed Androsoggin & Kennebec. It was pruned back to just the city

Agreed. Bur whatever it is, it's street railway / interurban equipment. Note the cars have radial couplers. Street railways liked spoked wheels, or wheels with holes through the wheel plate. The theor

Man, the trainmen needed really LOOOONG legs! Everyone have a good Easter Dennis Storzek

The Wabash did that a lot. I'm of the opinion they didn't want the open door to obscure their name. That was the stated reason for the ARA recommending the reporting mark and number go to the left of

If you look carefully at the picture, the truck springs have been removed and the sideframes shifted outward to clear the axle ends. Dennis Storzek

Actually, wheel cars tended to congregate around the wheel shop where turning and mounting wheels was done. The cars would more or less run a regularly scheduled route, bringing new and reconditioned

Winches outside the car pull the "power shovels" to the door, the men just steer. The real work comes when they have to drag the shovels back to the ends of the car. The duct is for loading, it projec

Looks Canadian. Dennis Storzek

Not legal for interchange on the general rail system, but it is built to the specifications to allow interchange on Central Electric Railroad Association member roads, so could likely be seen on any i

Nick's is better. He even managed to include the second raised level pressed into the panels at the seam cap locations, that shows in the drawings but is very hard to see in photos. Dennis Storzek

That's really the only way at present; you really need the row of rivets around the perimeter of the top surface to capture the look of these roofs. Dennis Storzek

I don't actually think any rules were bent to the breaking point... I had to read the Car Service Rules decision tree in the ORER again, and nowhere does it say to deny the shipper a car if the proper

A great example of how the car service rules were more honored in the breach. ACL to Chicago? P&LE to Minneapolis?? PRR to Montana??? Just goes to show, when the customer needs cars, any cars will do.

Well Tony, we can agree to disagree. What is "rib" and what is the space between the ribs chances as you move the neutral axis of the end sheet from one face of the pressing pattern to the other, but

Decades ago John Nehrich wanted to call them "bifurcated" ends. But they're really just the standard Dreadnaught pattern as normally seen from the inside. Dennis Storzek

Amazing. That car was ten years obsolete the day it was built. Admittedly it most likely has steel channels for center sills, but the rest looks to be identical to the 1910 built car. Dennis Storzek

That's too bad. I was hoping it had been built by Haskell & Barker, as there would be a good chance drawings exist of all the missing parts. Dennis Storzek