Can't make out the lettering at the far end of the car, but per the reporting marks list from pwrr.org, CS should be Colorado Southern. A close possibility may be: CSCD CASCADE & COLUMBIA RIVER RAILRO

That would be the USS Intrepid at what would have been, I believe, Pier 86 @ W. 46th Street which is a few blocks south of the Manhattan Cruise terminal (today) which happens to sit on the Hudson Rive

Not sure if it was mentioned as I haven't gone through all the responses, but I'm pretty sure PRR class K stock cars were used to haul the (summer) tomato harvest to the Campbell's Soup Plant in NJ. T

Nitrogen constitutes about 78% of average atmospheric air, the rest being about 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases and water vapor. As Mark said, bottled, it will be dry, ie humidity content of basically

I didn't look to check the winding direction, but if it IS installed correctly, I'm wondering why it would have been cast the way it was. The casting groove on the "top" side would hold water, and pot

And that the brake wheel was installed upside down on the shaft. Tim Barney

To be fair, the load is marked "Do not hump", doesn't say a darn thing about not wrecking it. Tim Barney

With the tell tales breaking up the outline of the letters, it's hard to make out. To me, looks like the words to the right of the pole above the lettering on PL 719097 are Doors & Sash with the last

I can't say that the list would be 100% accurate/inclusive, but the only reporting marks containing -SEX I could find online are: A: ASEX Armour Stock Express (Armour Car Lines) 7/1932-7/1935 unlikely

Fuel barges still run the Hudson too, bringing petroleum products up from NY harbor to (amongst other places) Newburgh, and Albany. A quick search turns up about half a dozen fuel terminals, most in t

Tell them, thanks to your hobby, you can't afford too! Those STMFC's are too plentiful. Tim Barney

Those should fit commercial betacam decks. Check with your local TV news department. They may possibly have an old unit or two if they haven't gone or have very recently gone to digital recording. Tim

Z axis zhould be vertical height above the table surface. Tim Barney

Model Railroad Hobbyist also has a link on their webpage to the press release. It states that existing subscriptions will be honored. It does say that staff makeup is yet to be determined. Tim Barney

Sorry, forgot to sign. Tim Barney

The plaque on the shovel in the picture says working weight of just under 65,000, which would include full load of coal and full boiler plus operator. I think the 30,000 pounds of counterweight was fo

I've seen many winter-time pictures of my hometown, Altoona, where the snow between the tracks and near the rail lines was so dirty and black that you could barely tell that there WAS snow on the grou

I always wondered where "Thunderbird" wine came from. Thanks Bruce. Tim Barney

I personally find it funny in one scene in "Rudy" (which historically was just after list time ends in the mid-60s, but SHOULD have featured plenty of STMFCs in the form of hopper cars in scenes filme

Loading fine here in IE 7 and Firefox 4 under Windows XP. I'll try in the AM on my laptop (Win 7 and I think IE8). Tim Barney