I have about 6 months of interchange and local industrial switching between Maybrook-Poughkeepsie and Hopewell Jct. It identifies customer, car type, commodity, reporting marks, car number, originatin

You might try, for a boxcar, packing it with foam rubber. If you are really desperate, fill the car with non expanding spray foam. Given the sloppiness of using spray foam, I would do it on a painted

Generically speaking, in order to gain leverage, a gear box was used. This was most often seen on flat cars with drop shaft brake wheels in a post K brake era. Could we be looking at a gearbox mounted

Guys Thanks for the Rdg Reefer images. Mark

I'm looking for a photo of a Reading Reefer class RMg with road numbers 19300-19399. These cars were built in the Reading shops during 1909 and 1910. I would appreciate any assistance. Thanks Mark Lan

The intellectual property was acquired by Amsted of Chicago. The drawings and microfilm remain in tact and accessible. Mark Landgraf Albany NY

The NKPHTS has a large photo collection that has been fully scanned. I would reach out to John Slater. Nkphts433l@... Mark Landgraf Albany NY

Joe As it turns out, L&N, and several others, seemed to like 20 panel fishbelly gons. The early batches, one for L&N 25000-25299, and another for NC&StL 41000-41025 that were re# L&N 26200-26224, and

Joe Can you identify cars manufacturer, when it was built, or other rrs that had the same car. Road numbers would be helpful too. Fishbelly frame and or sides? What is the side panel count? I have a l

How about using a 3D printer process to deliver paint thru a small bore needle ? I'm not aware of anybody doing this. Mark Landgraf

When you add water to CC you get acetylene gas that is most commonly used in welding. Yes it was used in hand lamps, headlites on cars and locos as well as mining helmets. The gas becomes well unstabl

It looks like a drawbar from the trailer hitch of the truck to coupler of the car for the purpose of moving the car around the facility. Mark Landgraf

Dennis I'll offer to scan that book. I have large enough scanner to do it. Please contact me off list at Mark_Landgraf at Yahoo dot com The binder is hinged. Press the lever down and slide it away fro

Bob, Congrats on getting this far with the SSC drawings. I can sympathize with the effort involved. I'm currently scanning 30,000 8x10 builders photos negatives. It takes time. Based on the dozen SSC

OK - I tried to send an 11 mb attachment that was readable, however our group resized it to 225kb and made it mostly unreadable. Jason or Garth, If you need the readable version email me at mark_landg

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I looked around a little bit more and found a a gondola that was used by LCL corp. It doesn't appear to the exact car you are looking for but it may provide some guidance. It's a big drawing but I got

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Hi, LCL Corp 1956 inventory shows that there were 216 containers were owned by Carbide & Carbon Chemical and were in assigned service to Union Carbide for Calcium Carbide serve. I have drawings of som

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Rupert In the time frame you are referring, the federal rules changed to requiring steel frames under cabooses. Four wheel bosses almost always had wood frames and became illegal. The cause of the new

Doug thanks for the referral Mark

Richard Thank you for the referral. Mark