Perhaps -- but exploding ammunition box cars usually make a BIGGER mess than that.

Wood floors; flaming journal boxes? :-D I saw flames passing by under a box car once, in the late 1970's in Ann Arbor, on a Penn (old Michigan) Central freight along the Huron River. Of course, who kn

Perhaps not; unless one were discussing the native birds of the Solomon Islands with the professor. :-D Do boobies build foobies? (desperately trying to steer back in the general direction of freight

unquestionably Intermountain :-)

I agree Tony - I think that is how I understood it the first time I heard it. I'd heard FUBR (beyond repair) FUBAR (beyond all recognition) variants expressed in Hollywood movies (usually comedies) th

Have you ever spent time inside a closed freight car sitting in bright sunlight for a week? Those canned goods could easily test the boiling point of water if it weren't for being in a freight car tha

Tom Here are two more with gray sides and red ends - we may need to compile a timeline of ownership! :-)

Elden Just an observation - Railroads do consider that X54 car to be a "reefer" - RB. All of the railway literature and especially financial reports I've read classify RB/L cars as reefers or refriger

Dave I searched through my saved emails archive and the earliest use of the term (which was clearly already in use at the time) was back in 2007. I also searched through my archive of saved rec.models

Sunshine for many years included a resin sheet of brake parts that I'm pretty sure included two brake reservoirs (in halves). Would those be acceptable?

I've never heard that before but can someone confirm this about the AHM PS-1... ?? Where did the Walthers PS-1 come from? (I think Accurail acquired that tooling.)

70 ton loads of coal or limestone on 4 percent grades. Yeah, the Rio Grande thought they might need some extra braking power! :-P Remember back in those days box cars rarely weighed more than 50 tons

But I think the Kurtz Kraft body was 10-6

Ahem. When you've got serious grades, you need serious brakes! (Athearn makes the roller bearing version of the clasp brake trucks.)

I make a small contribution ($3) to the INTERNET ARCHIVE each month, because they preserve much of what has been lost already!!Yay for the Wayback Machine!! :-) I support Wikipedia for the same reason

If you have any success making the trucks or having trucks cast in resin (e.g. F&C) please let us know. :-) I believe D&RGW also used trucks of this type on their 70 ton GS gondolas, for which there i

I'm fairly sure that's a "Colonel McCoid" photo of PRR 65356 from San Diego, from Bob's collection.

Unfortunately the 6 foot door disqualifies this model.

I have images of SIX of the 50150 to 50499 cars and all them are 10-0 IH and have 7 foot doors. Exactly one railroad bought 10-0 IH PS-1 box cars with 7 foot doors - the New Haven. And they bought 150

Similar, using Tichy detail parts.