Loading cucumbers: https://tinyurl.com/y96nrcmk Have any of these open side-style (correct terminology?)pickle cars been preserved at a museum? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo taken in August 1956. This is Baltimore & OhioTrain No. 102 eastbound at West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio: https://www.flickr.com/photos/38641689@N05/13222580804/in/album-72157642498545434/ I'v

Yes, you are absolutely correct. After I enlarged the photo to its maximum I could just see the lines between the boards. Thanks for correcting this. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

This 1926 builder's photo is from the Indiana HistoricalSociety website: http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16797coll21/id/94/rec/616 I imagine these cars carried various salt

A railroad specialty product: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/texaco-hot-box-coolant-n-w-railroad Does anyone know how this was used? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Diagram: http://explore.chicagocollections.org/image/artic/85/9883d2b/ Pressed Steel Car Company Photos, circa 1950: http://explore.chicagocollections.org/image/artic/85/f18t606/ http://explore.chicag

Photo on this link: http://explore.chicagocollections.org/image/newberry/83/k35mk2d/ Caption: "Workers loading wheels onto railroad car, 14th Streetpassenger yards, Chicago,May 1948" The car looks lik

This is a link to the BAOX tank car photos from the T.A. Watson collection: http://www.nakina.net/galleries/BAOX/ Use the slider to scroll down to see the photos. The images are not very large, howeve

From various prototype photos it is apparent that steelstrapping was used for gondola and flat car loads in the steam era. One type of load I have not see secured by steel strappingin the steam era is

And the risk of beating a dead goat to death, two prototypephotos of our friendly forward facing goat: http://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?ItemID=867&Categoryid=45 http://www.protocraft.com/categor

The caption for this undated photo says this is arefrigerator car but it looks more like a boxcar to me. What caught my eye wasthe horizontal sheathing. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmrrhs/1283261314

I've seen two opinions as to what "DF" stands for.One stated "Damage Free" as in a car with a cushion underframe. Theother stated "Dunnage Free", that is, a car that has load dividersand other interio

I came across this photo on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffs4653/4058168784/in/photolist-7bBbcj-anCQp Caption: "Old wooden boxcar stored at the small yard inButler NJ.This photo is from Aug

Here is a link to an undated photo of a car dedicated to on-linecinder loading/unloading: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns1827.jpeg I'd sure like to see a photo of this or a si

A few questions: Were bulk clay shipments in boxcarstypically short- or long-haul? Which railroads did a significantbusiness in bulk clay shipments? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

WP boxcars leaving the Pullman-Standard (paint?) shop: http://freight.railfan.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=wp19811&o=wp Note the P-S switcher. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

And 25,000 cars later: http://freight.railfan.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=milw2150&o=milw Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

PS-1 promotional paint job in 1956: http://freight.railfan.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=ssw75000&o=ssw Note that 75000 is not the actual car number, but 75,000thPS-1 built. Other cars similarly being promote

Coincidently, this particular car from the Barriger Librarycollection https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/39274271965/ was the subject for a postcard: https://groups.io/g/RailwayBullShippers

I found this photo on the Model Railroad Minutiae blog: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sEJ70W7AjiM/VuxhZMrFSaI/AAAAAAAAJ5k/gMbi09Mo7WsNypDpKzrQA4SYM0qPCLINg/s1600/Scan10001.jpg The caption reads, "This ph