Thank you Seth. This info is sufficient for my purposes. Doug Paasch

I just bought a Bachmann Silver Series (15009) box car, NYC 164613, stamped BLT 10-47. Under the oval “NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM” logo is a 5-pointed star about 10 scale inches wide. Does anyone know wh

Thanks for sharing that Lee. So the paper lining was sufficient to keep the cans clean even in a stock car? Doug Paasch

Looking at the photo closer, it appears to be a heavy paper liner.

Nice photos Bob. Thanks for a great tidbit of info regarding an alternate use of stock cars. Regarding shipping empty cans in stock cars, its seems unlikely but I’d never say never. As you can see in

Also, notice the hoist, counterweights, and cable/pulley system to adjust the platform deck height. DP

Work train for stringing catenary. One flat carries the cable reels. The one with the "roof" is a high work platform for the electricians. Doug Paasch

Thanks Bob. In reading this, I couldn’t make sense of one sentence so after some searching online, I found the same article. Looks like a line was skipped in retyping it. The sentence “No ice except t

I found this tidbit on the internet about shipping frozen fish. https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy-pdfs/leaflet431.pdf I, too, would be interested in the shipping of non-frozen dead

Not only that, if you zoom in on the guy doing the painting, you can see the brown paint all over his gloves, sleeves, and jacket. Doug Paasch

Tom, There is a Kalmbach book “Railway Express – An Overview” by V.S. Roseman that has a lot of info on REA. Available at Amazon and possibly eBay. A good book. Here’s a link: https://www.amazon.com/M

Thanks Chuck. I managed to get to the 17 photos. Doug Paasch

Thanks Brian! It looks like the pins on the log cradle fold down for dumping? Doug Paasch

Thanks all. You have given me more info than I had before. I appreciate it. Doug Paasch

I need to model some MILW and NP log cars used in Washington State in the 1940's & 50's time frame. I am having no luck finding any photos of prototype log trains & log cars for either railroad. I did

I don’t know if the CSRM site has photos. The link was to www.archive.org and they do have CSRM photos there, along with a lot of other stuff. I never knew until getting this link on the GN group that

I am cross-posting this to the STMFC group as Bill Welch is the expert on WFE cars. Bill, what would you say the body and lettering colors are on this WFE reefer? Looks like the one to its right is WF

That white streak has me puzzled, too. And if you blow up the picture, down at the bottom of the white streak is a blob of something that looks like a naked chicken. Something oozing out of the car? Y

I totally agree with Bruce that these are real paint blisters and all else he mentioned below. Paint blisters are usually caused by outgassing of water vapor where it is trapped behind, for example, y

I’m kind of late to the pickle party, but would like to know a little more about pickle cars in the Pacific Northwest. Does anyone know if they were ever used by Nalley’s in Tacoma (on NP I suppose),