Hello all, Can anyone give me details on tank car CSOX 5394? My resources at hand, as well as the archives of this list, have been consulted and I'm coming up short. The background: in another group I

Hello group, A friend is writing an article for Timetable, the newsletter of the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Society, about a wreck that occurred on the M&P in April of 1948 near Fernc

Hello all, A friend is trying to date a photo from a picture postcard. He suspects the photo on it dates from the early 1900's but there is no date, photographer's mark, or other identifying informati

Hi Kenny, I can add that I've seen photos of US Army horses being unloaded from rows of RF&P and PRR stock cars on the RF&P at one of the Virginia military bases. Best regards, James McDonald Greenbel

Dear Bob, I believe that these might be soda ash cars built in 1909 by Ralston Steel Car Co. for The Solvay Process Co. That same website has some other photos showing what look to be the same type of

Hi Mike, There's photographic evidence of these Barrett cars being used on the Maryland & Pennsylvania RR. Consequently, there's been appreciation for your recent excellent article in the Ma & Pa comm

Dear list, Could anyone help me with details on which number series of the L&N 1924 ARA recommended practice XM-1 single sheathed cars had 5' 0" striker to bolster distance, and which had 5' 6"? I've

Hello list, I am trying to survey the cars that the Capitol Refining Company of Washington DC had in service under the CRWX reporting marks in the earlier parts of the 20th century. They appear in the

Thanks to everyone for the great responses on and off list about the CRWX cars. The responses were very helpful to me. Eric Neubauer wrote: The first record I can find of cars with CRWX reporting mark

Hi Garth, Justin, and group, If I might offer a small correction, RFP stock car 2409 was built from a different car series than the USRA cars. It came from the RFP 2251-2450 series delivered by Presse

Dear List, John White published an interesting article in the Summer 1989 issue of Agricultural History on live poultry cars that discusses a number of the questions that have been discussed in this t

Dear list, I’ve been transcribing some early 1950s pocket notebooks from the Superintendent of MoW on the Maryland & Pennsylvania RR. There are frequent notes of freight cars as MoW materials came in,

Thank you for the replies Steve, Bill, and Garth. They’re very helpful. I should have caught the ATSF gondola. It was in my 1950 ORER, but I missed it because I was tricked by the way the entry for AT

Hi Richard, I wondered if it could be RF&P too. The logo is about the right shape and position, and it’s possible that the lettering to the right side of the door says “RICHMOND” (though it’s hard to

Hi Denny, Thanks for confirming that for me. I suspected as much from the materials I consulted, but it’s nice to be certain that the number is an error. The handwriting in the notation is clear, so i

Hello Brad, Ben is correct. The circle star herald with the “The Famous Ma and Pa” cartouche did not make it onto boxcars until well after the time of this list. In the steam era MPA 1155, along with

Hi Bob and Garth, I can confirm that the car in question, and its seven brethren also converted from open hoppers, was in use for locomotive sand exactly as Garth describes. Their conversion happened

Hello all, Now that the provenance of the RF&P covered hoppers is the discussion rather than their post-list disposition, I can be more forthcoming. The RF&P’s first open hoppers were purchased second

HI Garth, That’s a very good suggestion, but in 1930 there were apparently still 100 of the RFP 3401 cars rostered, while there were simultaneously 80 of the RFP 3506-3590 series so it doesn’t look li

Hello Garth, Bill, and list, At first glance the RF&P cabs may appear to be USRA design, but they actually pre-date the USRA proposed caboose specs by some time and are dimensionally different. The RF