Is anyone working on rosters of Frisco freight & MOW cars? The Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive in September received some material transferred from St. Paul and this includes ledgers from the Frisc

I have attached a photo showing a New York Central stock car as well as a couple Northern Pacific, and at least one Great Northern, can't identify the other cars. This is at Wishram, Washington on the

Here is a sequence of views of transformers and runner being delivered on the Seattle City Light Skagit River Railway in early 1950's. View 01 - Here we have Skagit River Railway center cab diesel No.

Photo of runner for Ross Powerhouse generator No. 41 on C&O 80977 well car. Photo taken at Rockport, WA on Great Northern after the Skagit River Railway was abandoned and runner was delivered on lowbo

Here are four more photos of Great Northern well car GN 60002, including closeup of well. These were taken in October 1958 and shows runner for Diablo generator No. 32. Rich Wilkens

Continuing the well car / depressed center car threads. These are various photos from the Seattle City Light Skagit Power Project. PRR 470031 with runner for Seattle City Light Ross Powerhouse, car on

The Railway Engineering and Maintenance Cyclopedia for 1926 shows weed mowers, burners, and sprayers ranging from hand held to freight car size. A full page ad for herbicides for the The Reade Mfg. Co

Those are 1/4 ton jeep trailers, on one of them you can see the stepped top. The 1 ton trailers have a large stamped steel landing wheel which would be visible. I have a 1945 Ben-Hur one ton trailer.

As this is a photo from a newspaper archives that doctoring is typical for newspapers of that period. This gave a stronger contrast to the photos when printed. You will see the edges of the truck side

Mention of the whale from the Portland Oregonian Richard Wilkens Oregonian, April 13, 1930 WHALE IS TO MOVE ON Car With Embalmed Mammal to Leave Portland Monday. The embalmed whale on exhibition at th

U.S. Army Tank Car USAX 16503 at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles on May 24, 1958. Wonder what nasty stuff was in those tanks? Richard Wilkens

Morrell Refrigerator Line MRX 5687 at Los Angeles in May 1958. Richard Wilkens

Another photo from my collection of GATX 33504 at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles on February 26, 1958. Richard Wilkens

What's interesting is that the PFE car and the SP&S cars have no side stirrup step on the left corner of the cars or hand grabs. I thought by this time that was a requirement. Rich Wilkens

One last view, this is GATX 26452 leased to Anheuser Busch for corn syrup. Car is at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles in September 1958. Richard Wilkens

Nice view of freshly built GATX 70977 tank car leased to Archer-Daniels-Midland at Sharon, PA on October 12, 1958. Richard Wilkens

Swift Livestock Express stock car SLSX 3600 at Milwaukee, WI in October 1958. Richard Wilkens

Here is another refrigerator car, SLRX 4216 at Terminal Island in Los Angeles in April 1958. What type of trucks are these? Richard Wilkens

Was busy doing some scanning and came across this slide of National Car Company NX 6898 taken in October 1956. I find the leasing info interesting as Fruit Growers Express owner lessor, National Car C

These are probably cants, which would later be sawed into other sizes of lumber. Or possibly due to the length these would be made into ship masts. Rich Wilkens