Two more photos of Erie #191, as the Vin Fiz car, are found on this website. http://thepublici.blogspot.com/2008_11_06_archive.html Doug Chapman Manassas, VA

A quick scan of the New York Central System Historical Society's archive pulled up the following images. This undated photo of 8041 clearly shows the chafing strip and the roof walk. However, there ar

Ralston Steel Car Company of Columbus built 1,000 of these cars for the Kanawha & Michigan, between July and September 1912. Numbered 7500-8499, these cars were later relettered (NYC) and renumbered (

Elden, NYC 43267 was a 50 ton, 40' box car, built by Despatch Shop in 1956, NYC Lot 858B. It was one of 1390 cars numbered 42000-43389. The drawing below comes from Terry Link's Canada Southern websit

The Mid-Atlantic Railroad Prototype Modelers meet will be held in Linthicum (Baltimore), Maryland on September 19-22, 2019. Full information is available at http://www.marpm.org/ Two full days of clin

Brian, Check out the Feb/Mar 2017 isue of the S Scale Resource, pages 53-57. The article includes 5 prototype photos and an S-scale model of the AB brake system. Doug Chapman

Friends, Noel Widdifield, one of the directors of the NYCSHS, asked me to post this: "Our NYCSHS Archive Photo Collection is housed on the a site that was partly funded by a R&LHS grant with the idea

Paul, I could not find any photos of the W&LE (Wheeling & Lake Erie) in the NYCSHS photo collection. Is it possible that you were referring to the LE&W (Lake Erie & Western)? If so, the LE&W was a NYC

The New York Central System Historical Society announced today that "after almost 50 years of collecting and preserving NYCS photographs, the Society is now making them available to you. Our collectio

I need a set of Michigan Central decals to complete an HO scale USRA SS Box Car. Does anyone have an extra set of Westerfield's D3312 decals that they are willing to sell? Michigan Central had 1000 of

Karl A Borntragerdescribes his 50-year association with the NYC in Keepingthe Railroads Running: Fifty Years on the New York Central. (New York: Hastings House, 1974). Replete with personal accounts o

David, The Toledo & Ohio Central USRA twin hoppers were delivered in 1919 just as you describe, so it's reasonable to assume that the K&M cars were also lettered in the same manner. Unfortunately, I h

Hello, I am looking for photographs and painting diagrams forUSRA twin hoppers lettered for the Kanawha and Michigan Railway, a subsidiary ofthe New York Central. The K&Mreceived 500 cars in two separ

Eric, thanks for the great work in compiling this document! It really helps those of us interested in the WWI era railroading. Doug Chapman

Addendum to my earlier post: Charlie Smith's article on the NYC USRA hopper cars is richly illustrated with more than 40 photos, 7 diagrams of different lots, a lettering diagram and a comprehensive l

The definitive article on NYC's fleet of USRA hopper cars was written by Charles M. Smith and published in the "Central Headlight" (Third Quarter 1980 Vol X, no 3, pages 8-31), which is published by t

Friends, Cyril Warren has posted some terrific photos and maps on New York Central's operations in and around New York City at this website: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=616b1f67315e9e01&id=616B1F67