One of the nice outcomes of the recent West Springfield show was I was made aware of a video shot by a former Despatch Shop employee and recently cleaned up and issued as a DVD. This is a stunning pie

The LRX cars were built for DLW in 1925 by ACF. Photos and drawings are in the Car Cycs .They were later leased by MDT to provide protective service for DL&W, and after the war were returned to DLW. W

The MDT disposition records show they did sell DL&W a few of the older 40 foot cars with the Bettendorf underframe during the war,probably for end of life ice service. Its plausible these cars had fil

I got a headache thinking about why these cars would have truss rods. If these were the older MDT cars with the Bettendorf center sill, those cars had Z bar side sills and if a repair were required in

Central Vermont had some, there was an article in RMC a few years ago on these cars. Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

fishbelly sides or fishbelly center sills??? The New York Central lots 591-G and 592-G were 50 ft fishbelly side cars. There were only a total of 1000 built, sort of a transition design between the US

The PA State Archives at Harrisiburg has Stanard Steel drawings for these. Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

My reocrds who Std Steel drawing 48808 and 49375 were for trucks used on 1924 NYC hoppers, here were a couple of other drawings but the number was not readable. Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this

The cars were built as steel frame cars in 1931 with wood siding and ends; in the rebuild process new steel side panels were added as well as new ends, roofs and doors. The WMRX cars were a small piec

I've assumed they used the Despatch panel roofs but I don't have a good shot to confirm Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

The 1931 cars had an EW of 9' 9 3/4" over the roof fascia's and 9' 7 5'8" over the side sheathing. (per the XS drawing) The WMKX car per its car diagram listed a side sheathing dimension of 9' 9 1/2".

Researching the early reefer companies can be problematic as information is very sparce. My understanding of URT is it was picked up by ART in the early 1890s, then was set up as an independent compan

http://books.google.com/books?id=RE1QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229&dq=fishbelly+center+sill&source=bl&ots=-2_LmL1b57&sig=NOuEWEDzsNWRenJ-zAudOcslinc&hl=en&ei=TW3STZtpwdyBB6653NML&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=

I can help you with ERDX but you may want to be a bit more specific in your question. (time frame, etc). Most of the ERDX cars are discussed in the MDT book. Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this me

It was $5 when I ordered some last year Roger HInman [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Arnold Premo, please contact me off line(rhinman11@...) I have a response to your question that will include a photo also. Roger Hinman

How about a Sinclair tank car http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5786895798/ Boxcar on too tight a radius? http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5786894808/

I've never used Jerry's decals but I had a similar problem when I tried printing my own using an inkjet printer. Unless running lettering is a weathering effect one is looking for, I was not happy wit

The LS&MS cars are ACF's interpretation of the SSC common design as modified for the NYC. These were ACF lot 5415 ordered and built in 1909; there's a photo of one of these cars on Al Westerfield's AC

For Connecticut, I think its pretty save to say the New Haven was in every county and had a monopoly For Massachusetts Barnstable New Haven Plymouth New Haven Bristol New Haven Norfolk New Haven Suffo