Garth, Neat photos! CMTX 465 and TKX 700 appear to be STC high walkway, radial course tanks. The date on the CMTX car seems pretty uncertain, but possibly post WWII, while the TKX car photo, if I am r

Elden, The PRR F28 is, as you know, an all steel car, so other than the paint and a few rubber parts, there isn’t anything to burn. Best I can think is that the load burnt, or at least the cribbing on

Hi Another fine work of art. As always. Mark Kapka

Fabulous story, Ken! This is the weird stuff we rarely talk about, but is fascinating. The correspondence is a good read, because the car owner and RR on which the car was destroyed/damaged, usually c

Mont; Thanks for those insights! Any photos? PRR went to all-steel gons with coke containers sometime toward the mid/late fifties due to that same problem. Some customers did not adequately cool their

I am going to take a wild guess about the photo. In the late 60's, a westbound Burlington freight train had a boxcar of bombs or some sort of ammunition from the Iowa Ordinance Plant in Middletown, Io

Bill; I wish I still had my copy, but it never got back to me after I loaned it. That is a FABULOUS photo. I looked at it often. I wish I had that one in my digital files. There is a lot of correspond

The Monon had the same problem with composite coke cars used as late at the 1960's. Coke was loaded in Indianapolis and hauled north to destinations throughout the Midwest. It usually happed between I

In Morning Sun's Rock Island Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment by Steve Hile, there is a picture on page 34 of a Rock Island Outside Braced Wood Sheathed boxcar set off and burning in Cot

Having served a lifetime in the Navy, I can attest to Tony's statement. I would equate FUBAR with FOOBIE. Ed Robinson

Tim; Thanks for the fabulous photo! I have not seen that one. Wonder how the tank car ignited? I saw a lot of burnt cars on the PRR during childhood. Hot steel and wooden parts don’t mix. There was a

Wood floors; flaming journal boxes? :-D I saw flames passing by under a box car once, in the late 1970's in Ann Arbor, on a Penn (old Michigan) Central freight along the Huron River. Of course, who kn

A very nice looking car! Jim Brewer

Folks; I’m sorry if we discussed this before, but I may have missed it. What was the story behind this burning box car? Does anyone have any photos of burning freight cars they can share? Thanks! Elde

Friends, I've been perplexed for a number of years by several tank car photos I've scavenged for possible future models (Yeah, right!). Today I spent a couple of hours playing detective, and can offer

But, but, but you just added another post! And so did I, just now! Arghhhh..... Ed Edward Sutorik

For Throwback Thursday I’m posting this photo of my new O‑scale Santa Fe express boxcar, a recent pandemic project. It started out as an automobile car that the late Jim Pierce built from a vintage At

Bill, Microscale did sets to letter the City Classics HO gas station kit. The Flying A set is 87-874 and the Gulf set is 87-902. Happy hunting. -Jeff Ford Sanger, TX

Bill Jolitz wrote: Until the early 1950s, the "insulated boxcar of the day" was the ordinary reefer. Everything from pharmaceuticals to dry goods to canned goods moved routinely in reefers if weather

Canned goods in reefers! June thru Sept. Wondering why. What does RR Bob have to say? Bill Jolitz