Claus, Pittburg & Shawmut and P&S Northern are two long shots in your list. They were both coal and lumber roads wiht a north-south orientation rather than east-west. Todd Sullivan

Victor, Accurail makes a nice plastic model of the AAR 40ft gondola, and somewhere is a description of which RRs owned those cars. You might check the Accurail website or search in this list in the Gr

Hmmm, if the Sunshine kit is off in terms of roof, ends and height, is the prototype closer to a Red caboose PFE R-30-x reefer? I haven't done a dimensional analysis using ORER dimensions, but the big

There was a big Continental Can Co. plant on Water Street in Syracuse, NY that served canning operations along the Ontario Lake shore for apple products (e.g., applesauce), sauerkraut and cherries, an

I agree with Kevin. I have tried, over the past 15 years, to ensure that the lighting I have on my layout (a blend of 3500K and 5000K lights) is the same over my workbench and paint booth. This hopefu

Andy, The duPont and [Union] Carbide plants in and around the Charleston WV area were big chemical plants. Carbide certainly had a lot of tank cars, but most were for chemical commodities, not petrole

Victor (and others), I would be a bit careful about using boxcar ratios created from ORER listings as the exclusive method for creating a roster. You should be looking at loads arriving on your layout

The flat car that is second in the cut of cars appears to be one of UP's class F-50-x early Harriman Common Standard flat cars, or one of SP's cars of the same Common Standard design (kits available f

Brian, Thank you for your foresight about the hobby's need for more accurate, higher quality freight car trucks, and for all the effort you put in to making them a reality. When I started building mod

When I worked at Alstom Transportation in Hornell, NY, we had a substantial collection of old trucks, mostly roller bearing types, from different freight cars that most likely had been scrapped somewh

Fenton, A little more data. I checked my January 1952 ORER, and the GM7O had 6 ex-Alton 17000 series boxcars listed. They were not big cars: 12'-1" at the eaves, 12'-11" over the running board and 273

Fenton, Looking at the Library of Congress copy of the photo, it kinda looks to me like the ends were 3/3 ends with a wide part at the bottom of the bottom panel. I'm not sure I can figure out the han

Charlie, I think your observations about galvanized roofing being a consistent color on a particular car. That's what I have observed when researching weathering for some of my models. I have used one

Ahem, when I worked at railcar builder Alstom, I was corrected to always call them 'fork trucks', not 'forklifts'. Todd Sullivan ex-shop floor inspector and logistics person for Alstom Transportation,

Richard, The Pacific Coast Railroad (different from the 3' n.g. PC Rys of Calif and Wash) was a steam powered short line just south of Seattle that hauled coal from a few mines in the western slopes o

I just recalled that one of the plastic parts sprues in Bowser kits has four (I think) of these 'tube washers'. They also work, as I have used them in assembling many Bowser kits. Todd Sullivan

Rob, Many brands of model freight trucks have a large kingpin screw hole that will accommodate a boss on the bolster that helps keep the truck centered and acts as a stop for the truck screw. The boss

The reason for having two sets of rails across a scale (one live set for weighing, and one 'dead' set that are unattached to the scale mechanism) is that running cars and locos over the live rails at

Chuck, About the gondola loads, they look granular, or lumpy. Could be sugar beets? (SWAG) Todd Sullivan

Neat photo. Is there a date? Todd Sullivan