Craig wrote:” a 'front end' caboose was required by Indiana state law for trains longer than 65 cars.” Not exactly, Indiana’s full crew law stated ”It shall be unlawful for any carrier to operate a fr

Doug, from CanadaSouthern.com notes on NYC painting and lettering notes “A STAR under the oval herald indicates car used in grain service as per note #2 in drawing book J-56487” I have a copy of the d

Tim wrote “ Later NYC cars had a yellow circle with a black "A" - is that basically the same thing?” Yes, a clean loading only car. Not necessarily grain loading only as many 50’ both single and doubl

Group sorry for the cross group post but there is revenant content between the two groups. I posted a number of General American builders photos from the 1940’s and 1950’s that were given to me from a

Group, in modeling a gon with drop ends. The builders component sheet says that some cars had Klasing 5L-700 and the remaining cars had Universal 1995 hand brakes. Photos of of both of them show a rat