I guess that means the box for my first TM car is more of a collectors than the car. Jim Gates

Although all you can see is an arm, it is really nine men and a boxcar. Jim Gates

The originally passenger equipped cars were 10000 to 10199. The 100 that were converted were 10200 to 10299. These were renumber 4100 to 4399. Most of these kept there passenger equipment until the en

Specifically, the 200 Fe-24 delivered for passenger service came with the Allied Full Cushion. The other 300 came with Barber S2 trucks. When 100 of these were modified for passenger service some got

I would say that if, on a moderately to bright sunny day, you were looking at a boxcar with one open door from 87 feet away (12 inches in HO), the the color of the interior would be .. dark. Jim Gates

Based on the stake pocket positions and the rivets above the bolster I would say class Ft-G. Jim Gates

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