I was organizing boxes of daily carload reports for various MILW stations in Washington yesterday and happened to notice this one on the top of the February 1940 packet that has URTX 89009 with a carl

Western Refrigerator Transit (WRT)) cars were acquired by Union Refrigerator Transit of Wisconsin (operated by ART at the time). From reading the entry in the 1905 ORER, the changeover happened Septem

Thanks for the tip, Scott. It looks like he has a list of his videos on his website that makes it easy to find specific topics instead of relying on the YouTube interface. https://paulbudzik.com/scale

The Great Northern Railway Historical Society has added a bunch of digital equipment diagram books to their online company store. They are a very reasonable $4.95 each. https://gnrhs.myshopify.com/col

The write up on these cars in the Soo Line historical society freight car book says the ends and herald backgrounds on all steel P-S boxcars from 1936-1942 were painted black as built. Paul Seattle, W

The Amarillo RR Museum website was updated on August 7, 2000 and promotes the NP 1949 reefer as their newest car. https://web.archive.org/web/20001018121110/http://amarillorailmuseum.com/ Paul Krueger

You're right, Dave. I overlooked the dimensions on the table in Richard's article. The photo does answer the question about the trucks for this series though. Paul Seattle, WA

This is the prototype for the Red Caboose 42' flat car, isn't it? Richard's RMJ article has a question mark for the type of trucks used under this series of cars and this photo shows them very well. h

Actually, the caption probably is correct. Pacific Creosoting had a plant at Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island that was served by the MILW via rail barge. Paul Krueger Seattle, WA

Could P&P be the ATSF subsidiary Santa Fe Prescott & Phoenix? They had boxcars numbered 501-1024 in 1917. Paul Krueger Seattle, WA

I've bought a couple batches of shells from her through Facebook. The most recent batch of 12 shells was a couple weeks ago and she charged me $8.25 for Priority Mail shipping. Paul Krueger Seattle, W

You can get Roundhouse shells here for $1 each, plus shipping. http://www.gallowayenterprise.com/ Paul Krueger Seattle, WA

Here is some more information from a bookseller who sells through Facebook and train shows. Paul Krueger Seattle, WA ======= Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Vol. 35 – the 1937 AAR Box Car by Silverlake I

I saw it at Ron's Books, but I'm sure there will be others selling it. https://www.ronsbooks.com/RAILWAY-PROTOTYPE-CYCLOPEDIA-VOL-35_p_30444.html Paul Krueger Seattle, WA

Evidently, there is a new volume of Railway Prototype Cyclopedia coming this fall. I'm surprised I didn't see this mentioned here. Maybe I missed it? Paul Krueger Seattle, WA ========== Volume 35 is a

Smokebox Graphics has an information sheet for this set on their website. http://smokeboxgraphics.com/assets/df0187_instructions-color-web.pdf They also have a few additional steam-era decal sets. htt

They won't sell them one at a time, but I expect they'd be open to a business proposition from someone to buy them in bulk for resale. Paul Krueger Seattle, WA

I can't read the numbers on the other cars clearly, but the closest two were built as auto cars with end doors, 205800-206199. Most of this series was listed as XM cars in 1935, but about 64 were list

I was looking at photos on the Library of Congress website and found these from Omaha with freight cars. Most were taken November 1938, but I think one is from 1941. Paul Krueger Seattle, WA Unloading

Or donate to Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive in Burien, WA. www.prnrarchive.org Then anyone can publish the images, even White River if they asked. Paul Seattle, WA