Steve, The reweigh on the NYC flat carrying the corrugated pipes appear to be “10-43” which would mean circa 1945 at the latest ;) Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, s

Bob, Berkshire Junction EZ Line Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."

Don, I hope that you can appreciate that there are a lot of things that you have never seen that still manage to exist ;) Thank you for the alternative explanation of sand blasting, and it has merit,

Don, What is he doing then? You speculate that this is not painting but fail to give us any viable alternative. You also assume that the temperature is below freezing, when it could well be above free

Agreed! And our models should absolutely reflect this. Bruce Smith temporarily in Birmingham, Al

Eric, Yes, and repairs as well. Repainting could potentially be included in that list as well, but I have also seen many photos of tank cars that were obviously repainted, but had earlier reweigh (or

Tony, While I don't have Richard's collection at hand, I have looked through the photos I have and counted "new" versus "reweigh" stencils. The ones that are obviously reweighs outnumber the "new" by

OK, I’m a little confused by this conversation. FIRST - afaik, ALL cars in interchange service were required to show CAPY, LD LMT, and LT WT data and the LT WT data was to be accompanied by either the

Folks, The Summer issue (#109) of The Keystone Modeler is now available on the PRRT&HS web site at: http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/newPRRKeystoneModeler.htm Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith, Assistant w

David, My first impression was that the frame was classic Standard Tank Car, not PTC. To me, the bolsters scream STC. Can you clarify as to why you think it is PTC? Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Bill, YES! Subclasses matter 😉 The DT&I cars were clones of the PRR X31B. They looked nothing like a PRR X31! Well, ok, maybe they did sort of resemble them, but to those of us who care, there were cl

Very few cars with slogans lasted more than a year or two beyond the end of the war on any railroad including the PRR. And yes, nobody owned the slogan "Buy War Bonds". It appeared on the cars of many

Johannes, Why would it we incorrect? DT&I built these cars in the 1930s and leased them to the NP in 1961. So they should most assuredly be present on the DT&I circa 1953. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith

Johannes, I believe that you are tripping over some vocabulary. Round roof - this metal roof section was developed in the 1930s and applied to new steel boxcars that were built in that era to maximize

Armand, Still don’t believe (or remember) what you have been repeatedly told here over the past, what 20 years or so? It’s really simple… estimates are as follows (and these estimates are based on har

Let's try adding the photos 😉

Andy, Awesome photo! Here are two shots from the Signal Corps Archives, formerly available through the Library of Va, showing two identical vessels on flat cars awaiting shipment at Portsmouth VA. In

Larry, In addition to showing that CAPY of 60,000, make sure that the LD LMT and LT Wt add up to 103,000 ;) Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Folks, SERIOUSLY? What Bill has been looking at is a .pdf file. http://www.foxvalleydivision.org/fvd2016/imagesfvd2016/clinicdata/Mid-Century%20Boxcars%20V2.pdf It was not an "attachment" (as stated b

Bill, The examples that you site are all different from each other! 1) DT&I hopper. As has been stated here many, many times, it was possible for midwestern or even right coast road hoppers to make th