Also it depends on your time frame. It was renumbered twice and the door was changed during its life. J. Stephen Sandifer

“The Santa Fe Modeler,” 2nd Qtr. 1989, p. 31 has an article by Keith Jordan on the model of 13000 that he made in HO scale. He laminated .010 styrene to an Athearn reefer shell stripped of its details

Several photos and descriptions on pages 187-191 of the Santa Fe ice reefer book. Built in 1946, scrapped in 1964. “The Super Chief to California” on one side, “El Capitan Coach Streamliner West” on t

#1 Yes #2 Yes J. Stephen Sandifer

If I am reading Richard’s article correctly, and looking at the BLI website, I come up with the following dates for the BLI paint schemes. Columbia Southern car paint scheme is good from 1953. Great W

Very interesting document. Thank you for posting. J. Stephen Sandifer

And the Toad Suck ferry. J. Stephen Sandifer

LCL freight cars would roam the country just like any other freight car. Let’s say you are a mfg. in New Jersey. You take your stuff to the freight house. The freight house has enough stuff from vario

You need to distinguish between express box cars and LCL service. An express box car or express reefer would be in passenger service. So a train like a “fast mail” could have express cars from several

This was clearly before OSHA. J. Stephen Sandifer

I don’t KNOW that this is the answer. This is a very early photo, probably 1900. Note the cars have no corner posts and the trusses are stuck in pockets like those on a flat car. Some of the early car

A railroad wheel is solid, but with a slight slope so that the outside of the wheel is smaller in circumference than the inside by the flange. A tight corner like this pulls the wheel to the outside o

Beautifully done! J. Stephen Sandifer

Athearn produced a version of the Roundhouse Old Time stock car that slipped my notice, and I sure would like to find one for my collection. It is the ATSF version painted for Kraus Livestock Commissi

Oil companies merged, bought each other, and bought and sold refineries. I would like to see a list of active refineries and their brands circa 1950. Skelly at one time had a refinery in El Dorado, KS

Some railroads purchased poultry cars. The 1906 ORER includes the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western with 50, the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis with 25, and the Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking w

I am tied up for the weekend, but I remember Southern was one of them. I seem to remember that plans for theirs were published in one of the Freight Car cyclopedias. J. Stephen Sandifer

More Photos. 89164 and 89017 had end doors. J. Stephen Sandifer

If you have a Pep Boys, Discount Tires, or NTW tire place in town, just go over on Saturday night after they have cleaned up and closed and pick up weights on the concrete. J. Stephen Sandifer

I think some of it ended up in Temple at the Santa Fe Archives. However, Frank was too generous in loaning stuff out, with many items never coming back. Contact Craig Order at <cordner@...> .