One explanation might have been that one end of the load was over one truck and extended toward the other end of the car. That was probably permissible since it would not place all of the weight betwe

From Chicago too, When I was a yard clerk for the C&NW in the early 1970s at 40th St yard (now abandonned) Hall Printing used to ship Sears catalogs and Playboy magazines, among others, to the west co

Canada Southern.com Tony Wagner WaltGCox@... wrote:

There are reweigh schedules for cars of different types in the editorial pages at the back of the ORER. Hoppers were reweighed more often than box cars, and privately owned cars were reweighed at the

I too have Pietrak's book and from what I read just recently it appears that there was a bidding war going on between several roads after WWI to make the BR&P part of a larger system. The B&O finally

Wooden coaling towers were built of treated lumber, and except for associated machinery houses were probably never painted. The blackish appearance probably was a mixture of coal dust and coal smoke f

Can anyone help with identifying the differences between the designs of these cars? I'm in the process of correcting a botched modeling job on a pair of West Shore models of the M-53. The way that the

My thanks to all who replied to my request for assistance. My intention in re-constructing these models is to make them "layout level". I'm an NYC modeler and the gentleman for whom I am finishing the

Boy do I agree! I model the late 1940s and at that time there were still a jillion hoppers in service that dated from before the first world war, not to mention the 1920s. Not just on the Pennsy eithe

Amen! I grew up in the east, near Philadelphia, and the Reading was the closest road. We had a retail coal dealer in town who recieved a carload of coal on a regular basis (our next door neighbor was

Don't forget NYC's offset 70 ton triples, and its USRA designed 70 tonners that were built only for NYC and C&O in the 1920s with a middle "clamshell" drop door, then rebuilt in the 1930s with a third

We all oughta be grateful for the poeple who don't care about accuracy. They are the ones who keep manufacturers in business so that those of us who do care about it can get at least some of what we w

I'd buy a couple. If I'm not mistaken those cars may have also been close copies (or vice versa) of cars on a number of roads such as NYC, P&LE, PMcKY, etc. Tony Wagner

Was it a Colorado Midland car? That road was still active then and Colorado was very much an origin point for livestock. Tony Wagner ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Fr

I hope someone out there can help me. I need to acquire 20 to 30 sets of decals for NYC hopper cars. I can get decals for 70 ton cars from Westerfield, but as far as 50-55 ton cars are concerned I hav

Can anyone tell me when the RDG began using the red "Worlds Largest Anthracite Carrier" logos on its new hopper cars, as well as on older cars that were repaired and repainted in the company's shops?

Thanks very much for this info. A friend and I actually model the NYC & PRR in central Pennsylvania circa 1949 but RDG hoppers were pretty commonplace, especially if one includes the RDG connection at

DL&W 42'6" SUF refrigerator cars nos 7000-7299, listed in 1-1-50 ORER 293 cars. Reporting marks were shown as L.R.X. or D.L.&W.I recall seeing a photo somewhere but don't remember the source. They mig

Re PRR box cars never going "home": My memory may be faulty but I seem to recall reading long ago, probably in "Trains", that in the aftermath of the PC merger someone in the car service department fo

I should have been clearer. What I meant by 're-painting' was not painting the whole car but, in addition to the required periodic reweighing and re-stenciling which was done routinely on every railro