Looks to me that all the cars have the same cargo: boxes of Rinso soap. I wonder what was so noteworthy about several carloads of soap that the brass hats and the photographer came out to the team tra

One of the main reasons the railroads hauled carfloats like this in New York harbor was so that they could minimize shifting at the float bridges. The tug stays in the middle while the barges split th

I came across this most curious car today: http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=x36.gif&sel=box&sz=sm&fr=ge My guess is that it was an experimental (only one was built) lighter weight

Bruce, Understand. I think I have more of a problem with left and right than the freight car conventions. Jim

Here's another view of the same car, same side (handbrake, B-end, to the left): https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=19950 There is a dent in the tank above the number two so maybe it was in

One today perhaps doesn't normally equate the island of Manhattan with freight, much less rail freight, but at one time the Hudson River side was all but covered in tracks. Freight trains were such a

I suspect that the draw to the GM&O was that wooden single sheathed cars were likely cheaper to buy (but more expensive to maintain) compared to the steel sided cars (single or double sheathed). Jim M

I believe that some roads invested in transfer cabooses to win favor with the union. I wouldn't be surprised if the NYC had this in mind when they rebuilt a bunch of boxcar frames into transfer cabs r

Tony, Are you sure about those weights? Not quite apples to apples but a built up three piece 70-ton roller bearing truck with truck mounted cylinders and 34" wheels weighs 8,500-9,000 pounds (I have