Note also that in the ORERs, early on (thru the USRA gons) many gondolas were listed as "Coal Cars", at least for the B&M The B&M USRA gons were listed as "Coal cars" thru their demise in 1954

Try http://www.columbusrailroads.com/n-ralston.htm

To answer my own question (at least for the 5100 series depressed center flats) One of these cars was recently found in Salem, MA I was able to photograph it Monday, and it is like the NH car that Ear

While I believe Jack's comment is probably the "real" answer... Note also that SLRX would be carrying beer - an alcoholic product - there *may* have been "administrivia" issues going thru Canada (more

In the first picture (with the tanks in the gondolas) The 4th, 6th, and 7th car in the gondolas appear to have a "widget" sticking out of the should of the tank. I don't see any sign of this in the ot

While the ORER may be mute for replacement steel center sills (at least for the B&M it is, maybe different for other RRs if they renumbered cars with SCCs into separate series) the ICC valuation data

RE: White band: there's at least 4 other cars with white bands on their domes

I'm working on researching all B&M (and predecessor RR) ORER entries https://bostonmaine.squarespace.com/freight-car-data (NOTE: above is temporary URL until everything gets moved to the new web site)

Trucks look (to me) like the Commonwealth 90T "high capacity" trucks once produced by ECW - #9063 See http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/12/small-modeling-project-nyc-drop-center.html BTW I'm stil

Those big ones at the bottom look like a lot of "fun" to load

And only 2 straps (plus center anchor & bolster pads)...

RE: John Henning photo door Looks to me like it is BCR + someone over-did the rust effects...

RE: Larger barrels Try O scale (or #1 scale or gauge...)? Or dollhouse folks?

A question on well flats & depressed center flats with "double" brake systems Examples: https://www.bmrrhs.org/flat_5000_series/ https://www.bmrrhs.org/flat_5100_series/ So depressed center and well f

What is the lever (?) coming down out of the brake gear housing?

I'm working on modeling the B&M 5100 series depressed center flats (HO scale): https://www.bmrrhs.org/flat_5100_series/#PHOTOS The NMRA archives photo and B&MRRHS "flickr" ones are probably the best f

Note on 10096 the “repacked” date (lower right corner) was ?4-22-32? RE: Nip in top-left corner of door” Looks to me like there is a sheet metal “hood” covering a potential leak spot – or am I seeing

I think other cities had elevated lines that served customers, but it may have been more of a byproduct of "main line" grade separation / topography than just getting local freight traffic off the str

I've found the drawings to be "typically good, but not always" For instance for the "free" example posted by Steve - look at p57-68 Pretty good, but the paper version is probably a LOT easier to decip

Or back in the day where meat processing offal was carried in gondolas. There were a few brakemen who encountered a not so pleasant "surprise"