The change in ORER listings took place sometime between 1952 and 1954. Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@...

It may be difficult to find a specific issue with the Google search function, and they can also be problematic to download from outside the U.S. I've downloaded all I can find, and may be able to help

Looks like a depressed centre flat to me... CP numbers all of these cars in the 3099xx series. My best guess based on what I can see is CP 30992_, which corresponds to a group of 5 cars built by CP (l

Canadian Pacific had quite a number of slab side covered hoppers as well, as did the Pacific Great Eastern and Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo. CP had some different options on some of their cars in terms

Tim, Procor cars wouldn’t have been visible until the 1960s… this Union Tank subsidiary wasn’t created until the mid-1940s as Products Tank Line of Canada. However, this company's cars were not visibl

I hadn't been aware of these specific follow-on orders, but the practice of smaller Canadian roads placing an order for cars identical to and immediately following one by a major Canadian road seems t

I'm thinking that these photos were related to some sort of experiment to see if automobile boxcars could be used in this kind of service. Flat cars would have been in high demand for all sorts of war

It would appear that the OCRX reporting mark (Oil Creek Refining Co.) disappeared from the ORERs between the July 1935 and July 1937 issue, suggesting that the photo cannot have been taken after the m

The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada engaged in this practice as well, and continued it as late as 1915 based upon available documentation. I’ve had the opportunity to consult a car ledger held by Librar

Interesting photo, and I thank you for drawing it to my attention. Given that this car did not appear in Shawinigan Chemical listings until 1946, despite an 8/1933 built date, I think we’ll find that

This is a CN 1929 standard boxcar, built as the CN 503500-513152 series between 1929 and 1931 (this particular example was built in April 1930, which narrows the source car series somewhat to 505851-5

This looks to be a CN 1923 standard boxcar (CN 500500-503499, built from 1923 to 1927). A number of these cars found their way to the Quebec, North Shore & Labrador around 1960. I have no information

The word at the upper left of the reefer appears to be “CHICAGO”, and based upon a listing in the January 1910 ORER, I think we’re likely looking at a car listed by the Chicago Refrigerator Car Co., w

Neat photo. Built by Rhodes Curry of Amherst, Nova Scotia in July 1906, this car would be assigned to be CN 336401 following the Grand Trunk’s absorption into Canadian National in 1923. Ian Cranstone

From the ORER: Quantify of stock cars was given during this blackout period as: 34 cars from January 1927 through July 1936; 40 cars from July 1937 to April 1938; 45 cars from July 1938 through Januar

I don't have any particular information on this car, but based upon the visible stencilled built date of 11/15 on the flat car itself, the most likely source was a CN 651264-651459 series flat car, or

Thanks for finding this photo Bob, it seems to be one I haven’t seen from Library and Archives Canada. IOX 7044 was actually built by AC&F in the fall of 1920, and reweighed in 3/1937. Following acqus

From a 1924 ORER, the Georgia & Florida Railway (G&F) shows 28 cars in the 2403-2499 series (shown as 36’6” 30-ton flat cars). Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@... http://freightc

I had a few thoughts vis-a-vis tracking the GATX fleet based on my experiences in working through understanding the Imperial Oil/Transit Company Ltd. to Products Tank Line of Canada fleet, and the Can

Interesting fun fact about those UTLX cars – they're actually cars belonging to UTLX's Canadian subsidiary Products Tank Line of Canada, being former Canadian Industries Limited cars built by Canadian