While I concede that the silver-painted 10'-6" car is a possibility, I'm pretty sure I see a double door, so I'd go with dark-colored car with lots of white or light gray material on it. Ron Merrick

One of the photos I posted on the Rock Island group, the 20041, appears to have this type of truck. Other cars had a type of roller-bearing 50 ton truck with a flat top to the sideframe, but appears d

I snagged two of the Sunshine 67.1 NYC gon directly from Sunshine at, I think, Naperville. Built one and put one on eBay because it was one of those cars that were probably infrequent visitors to my p

OK, I'm going to take a chisel blade or something to mine to help it flatten down better. I never seem to be able to file down the edges of mine enough to get them to lay right, probably because I'm a

Is this the same as the former Sunshine 67.1? I built one of those, and installed the wood floor in it. My modeling era is 1958-63. I keep all my Sunshine instructions, but they're not where I can loo

That's what I presumed. Thanks, Ed, for confirming it. Ron Merrick

I picked up an Intermountain kit lettered for Illinois Central lease, with the reporting marks NRC 16337, being fully aware that I would have to change something. The MDT book shows these cars as lot

The one on the right is more than likely an MKT car. This is based on the light colored paint, and the marking on the car appears to be part of an M, and the right size. Ron Merrick

I get what Bruce is saying, look at the rivet lines where the internal heads are attached. Now subtract a good bit of the distance between the pairs of rivet lines, which is dead air space (the volume

Ron Merrick

This structure looks like it's on the west side (the town side) of the Santa Fe elevated ROW through downtown. Best guess is that it's north of the Santa Fe station, which still exists at the southeas

Steve: Thanks for the research on these. I picked up one of the Ethyl black-band cars before I realized it was too late for me, but I didn't have exact dates. I don't remember the UTLX black scheme fr

I, and perhaps some of the other list members, have been on that line. Not only does it still exist, but parts of it are a commuter line and other parts of it carry passenger excursion service (plus l

Those could very well literally be 'forms' for concrete work, either for a retaining wall (dike or levee) or a large formed concrete structure. Could have been something being constructed at the time

'Blocking' is also used as a verb, referring to the act of assembling cars in blocks. I think, without citation, that this is a very old railroad term. 'Lashup' could have been hostler slang, but not

Dennis' explanation is most likely. Wherever this crane is, it appears that its purpose is to lift stuff that's between the two crane rails, probably stuff that arrived by motor transport or perhaps o

I looked for these cars in the Jan 55 ORER, by which time the conversion of single-sheathed cars to steel boxcars was complete. Certain series of cars that received new steel bodies had some designate

One theory -- the car was spotted right where it was photographed, on a siding with a bumper which looks like it could be a wheel-stop type (acting only on the wheels of the leading axle). Switcher sh

I would caution that many LCL cars from roads other than NYC had full interchange data from the get-go, based on what the stenciling drawing called for. I suspect that was 'just in case the car goes o

Clarifying my post, I was thinking of the period after the LCL tariffs were abolished, and/or if a car was 'captured' by somebody having a request for a car one morning when there weren't any regular