Yes, sorry for the confusion. I should have known that a 1945-built car wouldn't have been the same as the prototype of the Branchline car. The car I'm thinking of doesn't show up today so it must be

Sorry, the replies get separated from the original message by a day or two, but "this" refers to the WP car on the doughnut siding from the B&O photo. Ron Merrick

Is this the Branchline model? I built one a few years back, but I'm not sure that car is on the layout currently for me to check, and I can't immediately find the old Branchline catalog pages. I'm not

Coming from a fellow piping engineer, I agree the cylindrical section (what I would call a spool piece) and the rectangular section are probably for air or exhaust gas rather than for water. If there

Might be possible to combine the end door from a Proto boxcar with a Proto 50' single door body. As a general practice, 50' single door cars with end doors were very rare, and the 1942 build date sugg

I still haven't seen the 8470 on the F&C website. But at least now I know what it is... Ron Merrick

I'm glad to hear that you could make a difference, and that it happened fairly quickly. On a different tack, it's interesting that this was a Santa Fe car, since Liberal is very firmly Rock Island ter

I just looked at this image, and the accompanying information seems to say between 1917-1920. Ron Merrick

Those are really good detail shots, especially showing the two-level Dalman trucks. Those weren't available when this car first appeared, and maybe I didn't notice the difference, but I used the Round

if you were to stand at this location today, the Crescent City Connection, formerly the Greater New Orleans Bridge, would be right behind you. You're looking geographically almost directly south, whic

Isn't this car a prototype for one of the earliest Westerfield kits, as we were discussing not too long ago? Ron Merrick

Looking at this car more closely, I'm pretty sure it has a Despatch style roof. Really can't tell about the ends. I'm away from my reference material now, but there was a class of MDT reefers with Mur

The fact that these cars were significantly shorter (lower height) than standard boxcars of their era hasn't been emphasized enough here. I would point out, since none of the photos here even really s

According to the 1951 diagrams, there were still a few MP cars remaining that had wood doors. But by that date, almost all of them had been converted to Youngstown steel doors. The only ones still lis

While I'm not especially a WP fan, I could be one, long story but it started out with the Goulds. Anyway, last year I was in the area and wanted to see Keddie Wye, not that easy and not that safe, eit

Somewhere, I don't recall on which thread, someone expressed surprise that there was a single door version. Big surprise to me too, but I could use a T&P version. Lo and behold, eBay came through. The

If this photo is New Orleans, then the ship is facing upriver since the docks were mostly along the city side. The angle of the sun reinforces that thought. That makes it more likely that this is an u

Wow, I don't even remember this company. I was an active modeler then, and was actually in the country after having been on assignment. What I do remember about that era, and a few years later, was th

So just to summarize and close this topic out, and a continuation of my last post, the 37000-37499 and 37500-37974 do appear to be identical, built about two years apart. Some offline discussion says

There is this one, of URTX 37889: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=891416 It does appear to be identical to the 37000-37499 series. This may not be true for all cars of this series