A friend asked the subject question and rather than speculate, I thought I'd ask here. Thank you. David Payne Georgia

Cover the load with tarps before it departed ... and hope for the best. David Payne

Years ago there was a cartoon in MR depicting a woman at the door of a cabin speaking to her husband while a “bumpkin’” son sat in a rocking chair with a blade of grass clenched in his teeth and eyes

John Sykes III writes: Actually I was looking for a southeastern “home” for the AtlasO model that I have, but it doesn’t appear that many, if any, migrated south. David Payne

Thanks to Tony and Ben for your replies. David Payne

Does anyone have a list of owners of the subject hopper car; specifically, one with flat ends (for all I know, they may all have had flat ends). Thank you! David Payne

I blame it on the programmers who put the "new" comments at the top rather, than as I recall from years ago, the bottom of a reply. I think most responders don't THINK about what is below the reply th

Though I cannot speak for the era in the photo, I've seen plenty of boxcars moving with one or both doors open and hoppers, but not drop-bottom gons, with dump doors open but certainly fewer than boxc

Or "K Class" ... or "Big Apple" ... DPayne

I have a photo showing a green NP box car with yellow(?) stripe and what appears to be a "DF" circle logo on its plug door. Northern Pacific is in arched lettering to the left of the door and there is

Armand, Perhaps it's "time" to begin your kit-building business. ;-) David Payne Georgia

I have an AtlasO ACF 70-ton 2-bay 1958 cu ft covered hopper lettered for Boraxo with reporting marks of GACX 40231 Blt 9-50 New 9-50. Is anyone familiar with the commodity / commodities shipped in the

In addition to Southern, Central of Georgia served a General Electric transformer plant in Rome, Georgia, and had twenty 70-ton 37'10" in length with a 17' depressed deck cars in the 11800 - 11819 ser

I attempted to search for this subject before asking here ... How prevalent were beer shipments by rail in 1950 and what type(s) of cars were principally used to handle this business? Particularly, I

The 1965 ORER shows 17 cars remaining in the 37700 - 37833 series. David Payne Georgia

Just wanted to thank everyone who had offered comments on the "mystery car" ... Over on the OSCALEMODELERS yahoo group, Jim Martin offered the following ... From another list. The 2nd car is a OTDX go

At the suggestion of one of the OSM members, I'm forwarding this to the STMFC group. The first car appears to be a covered gon used in hauling coil steel, but what about the second one? Thank you. Dav