Never seen that before. Looks like they used the locking mechanism from a reefer. Would be intereting to find out more about it.

The top half of it looks like it says "How to Serve Winter Keeping Potatoes". So I'm guessing the lower half is recipe recommendations

Jack - Your eyes are better than mine (maybe I should stop ignoring the emails from my eye doctor reminding me it's time for new glasses) :)

Bill - You are correct. Hastings was the "epicenter" of the Florida potato industry. Hastings was served by the FEC, but the ACL, SAL, and SOU all had seasonal salesmen assigned in Hastings to try and

Bill - You are correct.

I'm trying to determine the differences between insulated boxcars (AAR designation XI) and bunklerless refrigerator cars (RB or RBL), and don't see any real difference in design or use (although the O

Prior to reading this thread and looking at the pictures, I was unaware that stock cars had hatches on their roofs. Other than for loading bulk commodities like shown here, what were these hatches use

Bruce & Garth - Thanks for the info. This is a car type I don't know a lot about (hauling livestock was not a priority on the Seaboard - they had less than 50 stock cars in the early 50s). Glad to lea

The PRR had around 3,000 of these cars, and they became FGEX reefers in the early 20s

Bob - FGE had about 200 overhead bunker cars (reporting marks FOBX), and WFE had another 50 (WOBX). They were 50 footers (actually about 53), and from the few photos I've seen, it looks like they had

Fenton - You are correct, National Car was a subsidiary of FGE to service meat packers, and the vast majority of their cars were leased to different packers. It is my understanding that tracking car n

My guess is the two pictures of tires being unloaded for tires shops were taken at team tracks. I now have another reason to spot a box car there

One of the comments says "The horizontal white stripe on the door indicates that the car has automobile-loading racks". Was this "standard" across all railroads, or just for certain roads? I ask, beca

Guy - Thanks for the info

20 or so years ago I developed my own software program (complete with relational database) to manage my inventory. Eventually, I got tired of maintaining it, and switched to Excel. I have looked into

I have seen similar pictures where the SAL took the tank from an old tank car, and mounted it on a bulkhead flat (and also a normal flat) and used them as a MOW car

I do consulting work with utility companies, and even though my main area is with meters, I have picked up a lot of useless information about the electric, gas and water industries. My understanding i

This may end up being one of those photos that we never figure out. Dave Parker questions the date of the photo, and the age of the cars would suggest it was more around WWI. Additionally, from what I

I've seen one or to of the helium cars in completed state, and when done properly, they are a great looking car - not sure I would want to take on that challenge though. As far as the NYC/Conrail hopp

Was this used for spraying weeds along the right of way?