The Cudahy Wisconsin library has a lot of material on the company there, which is still in operation albeit under different name; the former NRC repair facility still stands there also Roger Hinman

ACF Lot 6056, 1000 cars blt 1910 Roger Hinman

The attached is a car I built back in the 90s using the Champ set, looks brown to me Roger Hinman

There were even a small quantity of the NRC std wood reefer sold to them also; I've never found a photo of one in the BAR paint scheme. From all the photos I've seen, the cars registered in the 6000 s

Brown Roger Hinman

Attached is from the Bangor & Aroostook 1950 Annual Report. Notice that Tim got the date wrong also, purchases were begun in 1950 and done in batches Stencil on car confirms this. Roger Hinman

http://www.cotton.org/tech/bale/bale-description.cfm the attached link says it would fit; don't know if that is the same standards used at the time of the photo. Roger Hinman

All of the pre WW1 MDT cars do have a bar to support the hatch cover being opened. Good hatch photos are tough to come by,. The photo in my book on p133 at the bottom shows one of the early lots of th

My guess is its some type of ventilator input. There were a bunch of different designs in that period but I took a quick look at the period car cycs and could find nothing similar. Very interesting ph

I looked in March,octowber 1927 and jun, jul 1928 and do not see Lincoln oil Roger hinman Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app: mail.mobile.aol.com On Saturday, March 10, 2018, 'Steve and Bar

My understanding is MTC is an alternate reporting mark used on B&M owned cars to provide the accountants with a small sample of cars to analyze costs with. Definitely not a refrigerator car. Roger Hin

I’m down in Harrisburg this week but I have some of the 20s orders at home Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app: mail.mobile.aol.com On Thursday, February 22, 2018, 'Earl Tuson' etuson@srcco.

The ic ran dedicated trains for these cars during strawberry season. Roger hinman Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app: mail.mobile.aol.com On Friday, January 12, 2018, Frank Grimm fddms@yaho

In my Cocoa Beach presentation on NYC Steel Flat Cars, the page that elicited the most discussion in both showings was a top down photo of NYC 499100 from the 1943 Car Cyc, p 191. This was a one of bu

X generally means work equipment; perhaps is being used for ice storage Roger hinman Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app: mail.mobile.aol.com On Wednesday, December 20, 2017, thecitrusbelt@y

Earl, Standard Steel Drawing 38048 is the partial under frame drawing and is available at the IRM library. You are correct with the truck enter dimensions; the center sill is 28',the side sill is a 9"

No. I just checked a 32 orerand there still on the roster. Milk cars were generally used year round and it wouldn’t make much sense to put them in a pool unless they lost all their traffic Sent from A

Actually there were large shipments of canned condensed milk coming out of the Midwest in reefers. I posted a file of produce inspectors data years ago in the 1940s and there was lots of it. Butter eg

Railroad annual reports are often a good source of this data also, generally before ww2 though. One of the problems with looking at the data over a span of years is the categories can change Roger hin

Remember Bill, from 1930 onwards, URT is part of the larger General American enterprise and they are the ones that have the pool that can find the right car for prospective lessees. They also had the