Looks Santa Fe to me - Curved map - “..e way” peaking out about the middle of the door

Speaking of these trucks... Anyone know what is this "widget" attached to the truck? Damping device? Over-travel (or over-load) limiter? Image extracted from https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-B

IIRC, the railroad allowing a shipper to load the car with one of the “contaminating” loads had to pay for rebuilding (relining the interior?) the car

Ed – Thanks for all the B&LE info. I’m trying to figure out where the B&M 7000 (2nd) HTs and 7600-7799 HMs came from. Both were ex-B&LE cars. Some info can be found here: https://www.bmrrhs.org/hopper

I’m not too familiar with that pier. Does anyone know if the buildings are/were brick or stone? If stone (I’m thinking this is likely), it still might be an original color image If brick, I’m thinking

The 2 “Boston &” cars look to be more “Boston & Maine” to me But then I may be biased :-) Ken

I shouldn’t wander astray of the group’s stated purpose, but I will anyhow (sorry) Just to the west of Cheswick is the B&LE bridge over the Allegheny river (the one next to the Penna Turnpike bridge)

Note for downloads from the Kinkaid collection: If you click on a picture in the "gallery" view, it appears that Smugmug creates a "reduced resolution" JPG to display If you then right-click -> Save I

RE: Photo on 4-8-1937 as SP 43595 https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/30745/rec/693 Two days later, 4-10-1937, with SAME load... as SP 49679 https://hdl.huntington.org/digital

To beat this to death, the area is seen on this Sanborn map: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3764cm.g03701193401/?sp=26 Photographer is standing toward left side of map, picture taken looking right. The

That area is referred to as “Yard 7” in the B&M Somerville/Cambridge yards. Inbound/outbound LCL and freight house, and (?)apparently where some meat reefers were transloaded. The elevated structure a

To find “old” Atlas stuff (in general) From main page ( https://shop.atlasrr.com/ ): - Production -> Archive - Drop down scale (HO/N/O) -> pick type (“Trainman” vs. “Masters”, or as appropriate) - Scr

RE: sugar beets to 3D printer. What I would do… In 3D CAD, make one or 2 individual beets (probably a “profile” spline and a revolve would be enough?) Then make a bunch scaled up/down (possibly non-un

RE: High-platform tank cars Note that anyone modeling a WW-II period “oil” tank car train could use a couple. They weren’t many, but they did stand out in the pictures I have seen.

RE: Early end door box cars B&M car with end doors (12300 series) (with photo) https://www.bmrrhs.org/box_12423_series/ Built 1908-1909 They also had some built 1903 (I don’t have a photo) https://www

RE: Painting interior: Dunk it in the paint, roll around till all surfaces covered, shake off the excess? ;-) Kind of like the neighbor I had who painted his car with a roller…

B&M links now fixed. At: https://www.bmrrhs.org/sanborn_bm_sheets_mass (note the data is just listing the sheet numbers with B&M trackage, not the scans of the Sanborn maps…)

It is my understanding the B&W microfilmed Sanborn maps were produced from the LoC’s color originals. So the color ones available on-line from the LoC scanning project *should* match the microfilm ver

“An ad poster for Swift and Company is on the front of the building;” To me, it looks like it is on the end of the car itself (could be the car is “permanent”???) Reporting marks end in “L” and “9” (n