Very interesting photograph/car. Were there other railroads that made similar modification to hopper cars?

... in other words they would have to be quartered to make them anywhere nears usable. would have been a better project back in december or january!

I hoping that someone might be able to tell me what HO scale size a wooden matchstick might be? In addition to modeling scrap wood for lumber cars, I'm wondering about stakes for gondola loads and the

Book (above) and there was an Athearn model of three-dome tank car. Not certain how true to prototype it might be. https://www.pwrs.ca/announcements/view.php?ID=9181 rh

https://www.ronsbooks.com/SHORTLINES-INDUSTRIAL-RAILROADS-OF-NEW-JERSEY-VOL-1_p_18637.html

Garth, One of the interesting things about the fish car (from the website) is that it apparently traveled just about every across the country and could be found in any pre-war model layout. Ray

I misread a section of the website (and the sentence that I quoted) that made it clear that transportation is now by tank truck. So I will be looking for metal trucks out on the highway labeled "live

This is pretty interesting... need to find out where to get Department of Commerce decals! I noted the following at the Catskills website in Garth's post: "Nowadays a fleet of modern tank trucks trans

Chicago lakefront railyards - lots of information and photos http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/12/ic-freight-houses-along-michigan-avenue.html

Those are all NYC mail storage cars behind the PFE express reefer?

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Thank you for the comments/photographs of the model and prototype! It would seem that most layouts/maintenance yards should have one or more of these. Comments raise the interesting question of how to

Photographs of the wheel factory a month or two ago on the list made me curious about how these were transported, and Tichy makes what appears to be a very nice version of a wheel car (someone on the

The various repairs to the side panels are also of interest for modeling...

"InterMountain kits build up into excellent models and these are no exception. One aspect not readily apparent is how to install the supports on the roof for the icing ramps." (caption on the inset ph

I think they were loaded through the end door. :-)

There is a similar film showing harvesting of ice on Green Bay and transportation to ice house storage, for later use in rail and other industries. Don't think it could be done these days; many of the

Excerpt from: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-March/097205.html My other vice besides language is model railroading. In the service of this vice, I subscribe to the e-mail list o

From court document "The People vs. Wilson Car Lines, Inc": On April 1, 1932, defendant company owned 1742 railroad cars valued at a fair cash value of $968,853; on the same date in 1933, it owned 169

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