The other interesting thing about these rebuilds is all of the ones I've seen have the early Barber S-1 trucks that came out around 1934, which would make them not original equipment. Thoughts? Roger

The cars I have seen closeup have early UMP dreadnoughts with the square corners. You're correct that SRE probably got all the early dies when they bought out UMP. I've speculated General American may

1955, possible rolling into the following year. My favorite unanswered question is where they found the 1930's vintage steel ends to put on these cars. Roger Hinman

The car in that link and reporting mark would be an all steel car that the model looks nothing like; length appears wrong, as do sides, ends and roof. I have seen an ad in the railway press back in th

I've been using CO2 tanks for at least 10 years now; the initial cost was around $200 for the regulator and valves, but the recurring cost is around $20-30 a tank. My local dealer takes in the empty o

There were two different types of cars built by GA in 1954. A fairly large order of 15000 series cars for Swift which were meant to replace the little red wooden cars and had a similar IL of 29" and c

This was a General American design from 1934 that they first used on the URTX 89000 series refrigerators. They were used off and on in General American designs for the next couple of decades. Roger Hi

The photo I'm referring to is LC-USW36-603 taken by Delano in Apr 43; there are four met cars side by side: ERDX 9149, MDT 6382, MDT 17424, MDT 5242; MDT 6382 is the car that is freshly painted. The c

Yes, I'm still alive If you go to the LOC collection and do a search on "South Water Street Chicago", and look at the fifth photo down titled "General view of part of the South Water Street Illinois C

I just posted a photo of the lower door area ofa surviving car at a museum in Toppenish Wa. The paint is well worn, but it does look like thee are traces of red. Roger Hinman

https://books.google.com/books?id=f6U7AQAAMAAJ small article describes the Pierce Company in East Rochester, New York in 1919; (not affiliated with Pierce Oil, producers of Castor Oil as mentioned in

This is the interior of NPMX 500 an RP ( see the full stencil on the right hand side) Roger Hinman

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The cover of the October 31, 1955 Railway Age has a nice 3/4 view of NP91611 showing the brake end. I don’t have the issue but have a mediocre xerox; the brake wheel appears to be Ajax, the running bo

I saw him last Saturday and he said he’d be there Roger Hinman

This is a case where everyone is correct. The NYC had cars for shipping fully completed automobiles and cars for shipping parts of automobiles. The series stenciled 80500-80999 were designated as auto

Both these drawings are also available in the NP collection at the Minnesota Historical Society. One should keep this in mind if the price continues to rise. Roger Hinman As usual, thanks Bob for shar

They are also available on microfilm one by UMI in Michigan; the New York Public library has a set Roger Hinman

CUD 2-60 is the reweigh date showing the car was at the NRC shops in Cudahy, Wisconsin in Feb 1960. The build date on these cars was Sep 1953. In using the Intermountain car you will not have the DSI

NRC had a reciprocal contract with NYC for express rfgr, each side supplying the other at times of year either may have a surplus. NRC cars were very prevalent in the Pacific Northwest. I can’t get a