Note the faint 'Capacity' stencilling on the LS&MS reefer's fascia board above the grooved siding... at two locations. BTW: Apparently the 'native format' for the Digital Commonwealth collection is TI

Re: http://www.ebay.com/itm/371360697673 on his car. I didn't remember that Sunshine had done the chalk mark decals in that scale... Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA

Another East Bay site was the Trojan Powder Works... active in San Lorenzo (just south of Oakland/Alameda) from the 1900s to the 1960s... The CSRM has track arrangement drawings for "Robert"... aka "R

"Local use Only" ??? -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA --------------------

All From the Erie Lackawanna E-Mail List Archive: Some excellent photos of an early (b Nov 1912) Lackawanna all-steel 2-bay hopper... DL&W 76379 taken 07 Oct 1913... from the NPS Steamtown collection.

All Forwarded from the Erie-Lackawanna list: (below) .. another super-modellogenic scene... that tells a great story! New mine cars are arriving by rail; - 6 mine cars in the steel-frame DL&W gondola,

Higher-rez photo sent off-line... (I don't know the source...) It is certainly "AUTO GEAR FRAMES"... What that actually means is another question! -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA

I wonder if it could be an M&StL converted Fowler box car... It has the Howe truss, six panels, high lettering-board, and the outermost panels have an actual rib (as indicated by the shadow), not just

...which costs LESS today than it did yesterday!! http://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/manuals/dmm300/Notice123.pdf 1st Class letter is now back down to 47¢, ...and the 1st class flats and parcels came down a

As I commented back in May 2013 (STMFC Message #116323) Very Modellogenic! ----------------------------------- To: STMFC@... From: Richard Brennan Subject: Steampunk Easter Egg Yahoo-Profi

Bernhard Excellent write-up... I had taken the NASA explanation at face value, but the rail-to-barge scenario now makes perfect sense. Thanks for bringing more to light on this interesting shipment...

Doug Thanks for the link to the PPWX car image! I had been looking for information on these harder-to-find West Coast cars... PPWX 100 and 200 were apparently built in 1928... I wonder if their basic

doug.harding@... [STMFC] wrote: Wishful thinking... Thanks. The basic design is well-documented, next would be to use photogrammetric tools on the photo... -------------------- Richard B

...missing a backslash... https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/22913446969/in/album-72157649155982802/ Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA elden.j.gatwood@... [STMFC] wrote:

The list, through EFC #46, remains in the STMFC 'Files' section; https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/STMFC/files/EssentialFreightCars46.pdf -- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA ---In STMFC@yahoogroups.

Ejector pins... without them... it would be extremely difficult to get the warm injected part out of a complex mold. Description at: https://www.protolabs.com/resources/injection-molding-design-tips/u

There are two: on STMFC: Jim Parker's STMFC Photos https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/STMFC/photos/albums/581662849 on MFCL: JimParker Photos https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MFCL/photos/albums/16

Heavy Photoshop intervention to remove the perspective and boost the contrast indicates: CCC&StL 50x99 ...which seems to agree with Eric's build data... Copy of the un-skewed photo of the flat car sid

All Another excellent freight car photo series on the ErieLack archive site... from the NPS Steamtown collection posted by Richard McKnight; CM&StP 501037 wood boxcar... circa 1919~1920 - full high-re

All Yet another crystal-clear freight car 'walkaround' photo series on the ErieLack archive site... from the NPS Steamtown collection posted by Richard McKnight; PRR 102549 Class Rf - built 9-06... ph