Chad That was the first thing I noticed when I looked at the photo. Just last night I was looking at the three I have in different stages of construction. Chet French Dixon, IL

The Wabash reloaded livestock into home road cars at Kansas City and perhaps Council Bluffs and released western road car back home. Chet French Dixon, IL

NJI&I 4233 was one of the fifty ex-Wabash 87000 series war emergency cars sold to the NJI&I in Nov.,1960. Wabash's Decatur IL shop added the eight panel steel sides to the cars and painted them in the

Very nice car Bob. I have always like these cars and figured if I wanted to build one I would use a Branchline 8' door car and sand off the rivets and replace them with weld seams. Probably would use

Pretty sure the DTI 7023 was one of the early Shake N Take cars. I would guess the chance of the DTI gon showing up on the M&StL is more surprising then a ATSF auto car showing up on the CB&Q. Chet Fr

Victor, We pulled a lot of cars of sand out of a large pit at Forreston, IL and it was shipped in both hoppers and gons. The sand was often wet which kept it from blowing. In the early 1960's, when In

Smokebox Graphics also offer an Ann Arbor box car set which will do four cars. The set covers the 1950's. A Buffalo Creek set which will do two cars. Early 1950's. and a New Haven set for a 1955 reblt

Craig, You may already have the answer as I am just now reading a few days worth of messages I jumped over. But starting with WAB 89300, the roofs were the diagonal panel type. Chet French Dixon, IL

I had an interesting experience with this car. I stopped a few times to look at the car when passing through Atlanta. On one of these occasions, I stopped and noticed two men working on the car. They

John, The carbody color. Chet French Dixon, IL

It brought back memories looking at the1948 Varney catalog. My very first kit was the Southern box car purchased at the local pet store which had a small amount of HO scale items. I was 8 or 9 years o

Glad you are home, Andy. I held my breath every time I heard Ojai mentioned on TV. See you at Cocoa. Chet French Dixon, IL

The cars were described that way in the Wabash 1931 equipment book. I assumed it was to bring the attention to the fact that they were new cars but had rebuilt trucks in 1913. Chet French Dixon, IL

The Wabash hopper car to the left of the crossing appears to be a 30xxx series car from the 30001 - 30294 group built by Standard Steel Car in 1912. The cars had a 30'-6" IL and a 1738 cuft capacity.

Numerous times in my almost 42 years in train service, we would pick up a mty flat car and handle it behind the engines. In the late 1990's, our through freights would pick up mty flat cars at a lumbe

Bill, I purchased two THB 8703 sets, and was satisfied with them. They were for the paint and lettering scheme that was used just prior to the yellow and black scheme. Chet French Dixon, IL

If Jim Singer is at the Maumee session Sunday, I will ask him about the DTI gon decals. Chet French Dixon, IL

The IC did interchange bananas, over the years, with the CB&Q at East Dubuque for the Twin Cities and beyond. A track along side the northbound Q main called the banana track was used for this move.as

In the 1950's, DSDX reefers were often spotted at the Bordens plant in Dixon, IL for canned condensed milk loading. Chet French Dixon, IL

Dave, The wood sheathing was removed and replace with steel sides on the 45400-45999 series cars in 1935. The vertical posts and diagonal braces remained on the outside of the car sides. Cars 46000 an