Claus and Jim, Thanks for your help with the P&LE flat car ID. One problem though. The 1941 car has only seven stake pockets, while the car in the earlier photo Jim presented has 12. A rebuild is a li

Friends, Did anyone else notice what appears to be a rather short P&LE flat car on the hill just above the gondola? I was able to pull the attached photo off the web site. Can't read the number. Yours

Friends, I was pleased to notice a WP 16001-series double-sheathed boxcar in this photo. It is over on the right in the string punctuated by the Phillips tank car. You can spot it by the herald on the

Gary, Diamond Match also had a major plant at Red Bluff. Both plants were switched by 4-wheel GE diesels. I don't know about matches, but I think both plants were involved in dimensional lumber. When

David and Tim, The destruction of the inland redwoods was particularly brutal. Unlike the more sturdy coastal redwoods, the inland trees had very brittle wood. When the tree was felled, often a lot wa

Tim, UTLX 96720 is from series 87658-99999, 11,251 gallons, type TPI. I'm not really familiar with the Kadee model's pedigree, as these are a bit outside my interest. Hope this of use. Yours Aye, Gart

Rick, I, and my parents were born in Iowa, though I grew up in La-La Land (aka California). We ate a lot of watermelons when I was young, most of them probably coming from around Fresno. My parents al

Tim and Friends, Actually there were two different underframes applied to WP 1952 and 1953, apparently for evaluation. I have the general arrangement drawing in the book FREIGHT CAR DIAGRAMS, BOXCAR,

Jon, That's not a pistol, it is a revolver. There is a difference. I'm no expert on guns, but it looks old, and might even be Civil War-era. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Bruce, Just last week I posted two views of a tank car that exploded on the B&O. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Jeff, Kaolin was often shipped dry and loose in boxcars until slurry shipment in tank cars became common. I remember seeing it, or something similar, being unloaded from a Seaboard boxcar with a Bob C

Ben, Here are the photos on resend. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Noble Friends, Yesterday's History Blog featured a story about the conservation of a 15th century painting by the Venetian artist Antonio Vivarini. The painting in question is today known as "Saint Mo

Friends, I have a non-freight car photos I'm trying to ID that I think was taken on the Southern. If there are any Southern fans on this group who might care to assist, please meet me on private email

Friends, It might be more interesting if I had attached the photos. Error corrected. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Friends, I have just scanned up the two attached photos of a wrecked tank car. The back of one photo says, "Exploded oil tank on B-O RR." There is no date or location. Was this notable enough to have

Allen, Daniel and Friends, Some "lacquer thinners" are pure acetone. I buy a house -brand of fingernail polish remover sold by my local supermarket (Care One brand, sold by Giant, and probably other r

Friends, Attached are four photos of C&O MW tenders I found at Gordonsville, Virginia circa 1985. Note that all four are different types, but probably all were assigned as water or fuel cars to MW tra

Ken, EBAX 3197, the car I shot, is not in my 1958 ORER. That said, I just took a look at the EBAX roster there. While there are a number of 3,000 gallon cars, most are 6,000. Most are ICC 105A300W TPI

John, Interesting list and interchange information. One point: automotive lead (tetraethylead) is extremely heavy. From my observation on the WP in the 1970s, which moved a lot of Ethyl tank cars, is