3M had several that were at home on the Santa Fe's Corona branch. Jim Gates

Epstein's GATX history lists it as 1930. But it also lists ownership of 11,296 refrigerator cars at the end of 1930 and 17,910 at the end of 1931, so they may not have officially transferred the cars

What did you do in the Great World War Two? One extra point if you recognize the movie. Jim Gates

A fairly decent website on the Army's small tugs: http://www.usarmysttugs.com/index.html Jim Gates

There are three photos on page 58 of Billboard Refrigerator Cars. Two are opposite sides of the same car from 1925, the third is from 1935. Jim Gates

Bx-16 were reclassified from Bx-X. Ex Orient cars were Bx-23 and Bx-24. Jim Gates

Hendrickson and Kaminski's Billboard Refrigerator Cars shows several Northern Refrigerator Car Co. cars in the 3600 series. The standard portion of the lettering looks correct, and one of the captions

The US Army did not have dirigibles, only the US Navy. Jim Gates --------------------------------------------

Anheuser Busch came to that conclusion, their name did not appear on any cars in the immediate post-prohibition period, eventually even changing their beer bottle green color on the St' Louis Refriger

I see the ATSF Fe-M class, but not the Fe-K class. Jim Gates --------------------------------------------

According to GATC: A History of the General American Transportation Corporation, GATC purchased 2046 tank cars from Phillips Petroleum in 1945. I would guess this was a lease-back arrangement. Jim Gat

It says on the page their kits are HO scale. Jim Gates --------------------------------------------

That history is available here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b661737;view=1up;seq=1 According to this the name was borrowed from the German-American Provision Company. The implication i

I have noticed a lot of photographs of gondolas look like this, but I think it is some kind of illusion. At first I thought this might be one of the taller AT&SF post Caswell gondolas, but those had a

This is an AT&SF Ga-Z car. There were 400 built as tie cars by Haskell & Barber in 1915. Numbered 110000-110399. Originally the top of the sides were somewhat arched, but at some point in time they we

Photo of the Albatross here: https://www.vicksburgpost.com/2017/11/04/vicksburg-by-rail/ Could the location of the hog drencher be related to the ferry? Cars might be sitting around a while. Jim Gates

Here is a link to an site that shows the patch. https://www.militarytrader.com/military-trader-news/italian_service_unit_insignia Jim Gates --------------------------------------------

After Italy switched sides in 1943, many service units were formed using Italian POWs (former POWs may be more correct). Jim Gates --------------------------------------------

That number does not appear on Ian Cranstone's Canadian Freight Cars site. Between this, the lack of other markings, and the caption stating it was there to provide coal at a depot, I think it is safe

Between these photos and the discussion of the USRA design tank cars, it appears there were a lot of cars ordered by the government (possibly to USRA plans), but not by the USRA, and are not included