John, Ben, My first impression was also of a Bx-8, not noticing the breaks in the vertical sheathing and the wheels seemed closer to the car ends than later practice. But I cheated and did a look up o

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1983953805183939&id=1634742540105069&set=a.1983949145184405.1073742939.1634742540105069&source=43&l=1d57d84d48 A Bx-3 far from home rails. John Barry ATSF North B

Mostly steam locos so far, but an artsy view of a karmer cut lever: https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1983950438517609&id=1634742540105069&set=a.1983949145184405.1073742939.1634742540105069&source

While generally correct, sometimes you have to take the OWI captions on the LOC collection with a grain of salt. Case in point is the following: Loading tank with aviation gasoline in a gasoline plant

Clear and Legible! John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Army set up regulating stations at Spokane, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, and El Paso to maintain fluid traffic conditions on the Pacific coast. They and addition

Guys, Don't forget this is in 1943 during WWII. The Office of Defense Transportation (ODT) through ICC orders has just made the private reefers a national pool, the ODT Liquid Transport Division is ma

Jack and Dave Nelson are correct about the CNW trap cars, which appear in another Delano photo of home road cars in a home road yard. Besides, how do you explain all the photos of munitions loading or

Dave, UP only had trackage rights into the LA basin. The UP's LA&SL came on to ATSF track at Dagget and left RR west of San Bernardino, I think at Riverside. The Mojave District was Santa Fe only Bars

Dave, Barstow was more than a Division Point Yard even during the Depression and WWII. No, it wasn't the major classification yard that it became with the hump, but a lot of trains made up and broke d

The USAF reporting Mark is no more a mystery than the use of USA on the rolling stock shipped to Europe, North Africa, or the Pacific during and after.WWII. It doesn't show up in any North America ORE

There isn't one yet. I just got off the phone with Carol John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736 -------------

Bruce, It could be some of the photos are part of the build up, but I strongly suspect that these are photos of the demobilization instead. Things that clue me are the "sold" scrawled on the engine co

Fran, You've gotten good advice from all the previous posters. No source of information is perfect as Steve stated with his experience with the Santa Fe stock cars. How close do you want to get? And f

Dennis, I see a model of the prototype SP gon that carried sand to the Richmond CA ATSF sandhouse. You can see one on the trestle behind 0-6-0 ATSF 9020 as shown in my 2014 blog post Evolution of the

Santa Fe was a large user, but it wasn't universal among during the period that they were purchased. National B-1s were purchased with many orders of refrigerator, gondola and box cars. But, other bra

A day late and a dollar short, I'm surprised that no one else has challenged #10. I concur with the choice of an ATSF steel box as they were highly visible and numerous. And the choice of the Red Cabo

Potatoes were indeed a significant San Joaquin crop. In 1943 and 1942 the agencies at Stockton originated 2054 carloads of potatoes out of 9661 total originating carloads, Holt 254/805, Middle River 2

Thanks, I needed to scroll down to see that. Too new for me in 44 though. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4

Ben, I see lots of NYC cars, but didn't see any diagonal panels, did I miss something. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washingto