Huh, didn't know there were ever any peaked-end gondolas anywhere in the NYC system. David Thompson

> I'm assuming HO since you mentioned Sunshine (AFAIK, their hopper > minikits were for the AAR alternate standard offset, not the cars in > question), Sunshine did make a minikit for the 1920s NYC Sy

To get back to the actual topic, does anyone know how to zoom or enlarge this photo? The car looks like a pre-tank-anchor German-American product, and a larger version would be nice. David Thompson

This is the other end of that sheet steel load on the Southern flat shown here: https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A8223.1235.RR/viewer The captioner was kind enough to identify t

Pretty typical hopper-bottom gondola. This type was fairly common from the 1880s through 1910, but was superseded by self-clearing hoppers and GS gondolas. David Thompson

P&LE 3 was an experimental car built by Youngstown Bridge Co. in 1897. More in this topic: https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/topic/32635979 David Thompson

Peerless Tank Line 2002. Car is a German-American Tank Car product. David Thompson

1916 might be correct for the build date, if the car was converted from a conventional hopper. Would probably need to find a photo to speculate on the origins. David Thompson

It is the type of walkway that shows up on PTX's earlier cars: https://play.google.com/books/reader?printsec=frontcover&output=reader&id=ZPg4AQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.RA1-PA849 See also the pair of Ohio Cities

In particular, the half-visible one (not the NYC one) seems to be sitting very high off the trucks / body bolster. One of Illinois Central's wood-side GS gondolas. GS gons tended to sit high on the tr

This is one of those tank cars built in the 'Teens with the underframe commonly attributed to Standard Tank Car, but I believe the high-walkway cars were built by Pennsylvania Tank Car before STC star

> I'm puzzled as to the identity of the double door single sheathed car. Missouri Pacific. David Thompson

And on another tangent, the third pic seems to show P&WV's 1920s project to rebuild their 1905CD hoppers. David Thompson

Pressed Steel Car "straight sill" hopper, from series 25010-25159, built in 1900. PSC built over 7,000 of these between 1900-1904. This photo is far and away the most detailed image I've ever seen for

One of 800 gondolas in series 20000-20799 built by Pressed Steel Car in 1900, the last 200 with drop doors. David Thompson

C&O had 3000 similar skirted quads built in 1916-7, but theirs were all "rebodied" into USRA triples and offset quads a decade later. SSC built another batch of these for several industrial users in 1

Is this the series of cars that ended up on the B&M as the B&M 7200 series (new to B&M in 1962)? ??https://www.bmrrhs.org/hopper_7200_series/ If that group is ex-WM, then the ORER dimensions given are

Western Maryland did have a large batch of Gla copies, but this particular car was a taller rebuild with some differences in the ends. David Thompson

It depends on how far from "1923 ARA" you want to go. If you're counting the X28, then the N&W BP, BS, and BT classes would also count. Closer to home, Erie, PM, and NKP had auto boxes based on the AR

> I do, however, find the roof unusual. Why to the seam caps seem to > stop a good foot short of the eave? I believe those are stiffening ridges of some kind. If you look at the right side of the roof