The July 1948 issue of Model Railroader has 1/4" scale drawings of the shorter long body LCL/drover caboose. The same drawing, but reduced scale appears in a model construction article in the May 1960

Their web site <precisionscaleco.com> has the contact info phone, email, as well as catalogs and price lists. As Nelson mentions only the family members are handling the business now, but they have re

I can make out the SP herald and the "T&" before the vertical rib. I would take it as a T&NO car.

I think each tank car has a compartment of some sort on the end that contains valves, hoses, gauges, or whatever control equipment for the fluid or gas that is contained in those tanks. Charlie

The SP's El Paso steam era sand house received locomotive sand in ordinary SP GS class gons. Weather was not a factor as the sand was dried in the sand house before being blown up into the delivery bi

Quite a diverse assortment of box car road names spotted at a single industry at the same time. I think this is SP trackage judging from the single tie head block on the switch. Charlie

Came through fine here. I’m using Windows Live Mail. Charlie

The same seller has pictures showing the instructions for use printed on the sides of the box. Charlie

Thanks for posting that very interesting photo and the quick answer to my question. Charlie

It looks like the 200453 might be a re-number. Any idea what the original series might have been? Charlie

The facility is for loading or unloading oil tank cars. Note the bridge of a ship in the background. Charlie

Thanks for posting the El Paso yard photo. Brings back memories. I may have even worked #60 around that time. Looks like one of El Paso’s dust storms may have been going on. Charlie

I’ve observed some outgassing as epoxy cures so anything that interferes with that is not a good idea. Also curing epoxy generates heat which is usually of little concern in our model building unless

My HP shows the same sway. I think the center of the roof on that boxcar has collapsed. Charlie

Steve, A good reference book for UP freight cars if you can find one is “Union Pacific Freight Cars 1936-51” Regarding the UP version of the 1937 AAR box car design, that would be the B-50-19 and B-50

I wonder the odds of that sentry still standing like that when the slack runs out. Charlie

Judging from the diesel age lettering on the cabooses in the background there would have not been many steam engines around to provide the “soot”. Charlie

A ramp set up like this was used to transfer bulk commodities from narrow gauge cars to standard gauge cars. The SP had a similar facility at its narrow gauge/standard gauge interchange. Charlie

Looking in the Western Pacific album for this negative, there is a suggestion that this is a photo of the Swayne Lumber Co. bridge over a branch of the Feather River. Charlie

The negative is labeled ‘UP’, but that looks to me like a long string of skeleton log cars sitting on the bridge in the background. Charlie