Bob, Nice find. 126439 was built by American Car & Foundry, and if the car behind is 126158, it was too. But I can't quite make out if the third digit is a 6 or an 8. If the latter, 128158 was built b

And the XM-25-26 series is the first entry in the CB&Q listing on page 557 of the Jan 1943 ORER reprint. It list the same dimensions for height of running board and extreme height as the folio diagram

I am conducting a clinic at this summer's Santa Fe convention on how to build the Santa Fe's Duryea underframe box cars and am in need of one of Ted's P125 mini kits for use on a Bx-27 model. If one o

While just beyond my 1944 modelling era, the line of condemned Alton 17xxx steel underframe DS boxes is relevant for me as the 17000-17998 40' IL , 8' IH 2730 CUFT boxes wer just over half of the Alto

Bill, In a word, YES! The Westerfield kits, nice as they are, represent the original configuration and the 10'6 IH raised roof (12" extension). There is no represntation of the approximately 1000 Bx-1

Steve, Tony, Since the Rock and SP proper only had the single interchange point which happened to be at Tucumcari writing the routing as RI-SP was also unambigous, at least as long as the T&NO was abo

Brian, Congrats on bringing a family photo into 3D! It's very cool that you could personalize part of your modelling with a bit of family history. I may plagarize your efforts a bit and redirect a shi

A positive example of "You Break It, You Own It!" John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

Inspirational Paul! What decals did you use? John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

Bob, The Oct 44 ORER lists NBCX assigned to National Car Co. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

Indian Red Way Cars are mid-decade in the future (1966) for those modified with cushion underframes on the Santa Fe. 1974 saw the demise of Mineral Brown in favor of Indian Red on the remaining way ca

Garth, The cars at Hills Bros are in fact on a State Belt spur served from the south as you surmised. The Santa Fe Spear St yard was behind the Marine building with a Santa Fe owned spur running on th

That is WP's San Francisco yard & team tracks. See the attached Google Earth image. Green track = WP, red = SP, yellow = joint ATSF/SP. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lov

Bob, Those are Fe-U 50' SS Automobile cars. Within a couple years of this photo, the 500 cars had their left hand doors sealed converting them to single door box cars. When initially converted, the on

Eric, I found the List of Assigned Reporting Marks of Private Car Companies in the Editorial Section immediately following the list of marks assigned to Railroads. It begins on page 1006 of the Oct 43

Eric, Check the listing of reporting marks in the back of your ORERs that are missing the L&S cars. Not all private car owners listings appeared in every ORER. When a company had cars but wasn't liste

Brian, Thanks for posting the family related photo! Although Joshua Hendy was in Sunnyvale at the other end of SF Bay, my layout serves the Kaiser Richmond yards that Hendy made scads of engines for.

Update: Thanks to Jim Gates eagle eyes, I removed the PRR 83589 X25 series I misread as X26 and updated the totals in the text and table. The updated info is in the Blog at the location below. 22201 S

With the pending release of the Rapido SS USRA car, I did a little homework with my October 1944 ORER. I posted a list of the 2305 cars listed there in the following blog post: The Rapido Single Sheat

Nelson, No typing required!. Copied to Word, then search & replace the spaces with tabs, copied into Excel. See attached. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA