Wait a minute! You mean they've fit _more_ crap, er, stuff in that building? I stopped by in early August and it already bordered on violating the basic laws of thermodynamics.... If you want to look

TUC might have worked, or they spelled it out. Cotton Belt had bought the Sunset Route by the time I went to work for the Southern, and I can't recall seeing any piggyback waybills with that routing g

To reduce bit breakage, first, make sure the bit sticks out of the chuck twice the length of the flutes, second, lay off the scotch..... Scott Chatfield

While some multi _manway_ single compartment tank cars have been built since 1960, for phosphorus for instance, I can't recall ever seeing a multi _dome_ single compartment tank car. Can't say that su

I'm guessing the Eastman Chemical tank cars were assigned to Tennessee Eastman in Kingsport. Was there another Eastman Chemical location back in the day? Scott Chatfield

And covered hoppers and tank cars were specifically exempted from the billboard ban. Scott Chatfield

But were they using "friction bearing" to describe a type of journal bearing or were they using it correctly to describe one type of side plate bearing? "Friction bearing" is an oxymoron since a beari

What he was refering to is Amoco was Standard of Indiana, Esso was Standard of New Jersey, etc. Scott Chatfield

Tim O wrote: > Exactly one railroad bought 10-0 IH PS-1 box cars with 7 foot doors - the New Haven. And they bought 1500 of them! Did somebody say 7 foot door? Isn't that what the old Kurtz Kraft, lat

I think it's on Crawford Hill in Nebraska. Scott Chatfield

My guess is it's one of the B&O's late 10'0" IH boxcars, built in the late '50s if memory serves. I've modeled one of the C&O 19000-series cars and the proportions don't match. Scott Chatfield

Eldon Gatwood asked: > Forgive the late date of photo, but I do not have one in NYC days. What does anyone know of this car in its early days? Was it an NYC product? NYC 499064-499073, class 704-F, bu

My friend Joe Sullivan asked me the following: 1. What color were GM&O flat cars in 1952 - 1954 time period? The 42' 50T "USRA-ish" ones. 2. I am assuming that A&WP flat cars and GA RR gondolas (speci

Interesting view of a yard in California in 1959. Note that Brock's Law is in force.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/UP-Union-Pacific-New-York-Central-Car-in-California-in-1959-Original-Slide-e3b/32410898

A friend of mine who is very much a modern day modeler wants to try his hand at kitbashing an N&W class BL or BLa boxcar (Ralston 1923). Has a kit for these ever been done? I have no photos of these c

The 50-foot LCs were converted in the late '70s. The cars converted in the late '60s were all 40-footers AFAIK. A look in the April 1972 ORER appears to confirm this. The former NS 50-foot LCs predate

You can't unload doughnuts frpm an Airslide. The hole in the middle prevents the airflow from doing any good. Now maybe unglazed jelly doughnuts...... Scott Chatfield

There was an annual publication titled "Official Railway Clearances Guide" from the same folks that printed the ORG and the ORER. its purpose was to show the vertical and horizontal clearances of each

From the ends of the tank body and the end sills I believe this is a UTLX pressure tank, a late model X-5 built in the early '50s. Similar to the ACF cars Atlas and Kadee but with detail differences.

Archer rivets and their clones have changed the way many of us approach kitbashing and scratchbuilding. But while looking at some prototype photos for current projects I noticed that what I really nee