Group, in modeling a gon with drop ends. The builders component sheet says that some cars had Klasing 5L-700 and the remaining cars had Universal 1995 hand brakes. Photos of of both of them show a rat

Group sorry for the cross group post but there is revenant content between the two groups. I posted a number of General American builders photos from the 1940’s and 1950’s that were given to me from a

Tim wrote “ Later NYC cars had a yellow circle with a black "A" - is that basically the same thing?” Yes, a clean loading only car. Not necessarily grain loading only as many 50’ both single and doubl

Doug, from CanadaSouthern.com notes on NYC painting and lettering notes “A STAR under the oval herald indicates car used in grain service as per note #2 in drawing book J-56487” I have a copy of the d

Craig wrote:” a 'front end' caboose was required by Indiana state law for trains longer than 65 cars.” Not exactly, Indiana’s full crew law stated ”It shall be unlawful for any carrier to operate a fr

Yes Salem, Indiana on the Monon. The Monon built in the company shops these “head end cabooses”. They housed the head end brakeman and any LCL that may be carried to be distributed along the line. The

Group, if anyone can help me identify the white tank car that is behind the 2-D+D-2 "*800 Class" in the two slides that were recently listed on ebay? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Slide-CSS-SB-Sou

Now the question is where was ASF’s and/or Bettendorf’s foundry where these loads originated? I’m modeling part of Pullman’s Michigan City plant and I’m trying to run down loads of parts into Pullman,

Other drawings in the society’s collection pertaining to the lot 504-B are Drawing X-39696-A General Arrangement 6’-0” Side Door and Drawing 60178 Lettering 40’6” All Steel Box Lot 503-B and 504-B. Se

The New York Central drawing Q-53566 details the General Arrangement for AB Brake Equipment on the lot 504-B boxcars. The drawing is available from the NYCSHS. The photo of the brake equipment on the

Not a builders photo, but a photo at the builder. https://flic.kr/p/jJBqLk A number of cars line up on the delivery track at Pullman’s Michigan City Indiana plant taken from a train on Monon’s Michiga

My mistake Tim, I guess it was fat fingers on a small iPhone keypad. The ERDX11000-11049 and NRRB/NYRX 2500-2599 cars were rebuilt from lot 734-B boxes not the 743-B that I had posted earlier. Seth La

Peter, the NYRB 2500-2599 are the same cars as the NYRX 2500-2599 cars. If you look closely at this photos of the NYRX cars, you can see the the B was repainted or stickered as a X. Both the ERDX 1100

Armand, there are many different groups of ERDX reefers. What series do you want to know about? http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-MODELS-FREIGHT2.htm Near the bottom of the list are ERDX reefers.

Dave, according to the Gordon Odegard article in the Jan 79 MR the B&M did. There is a photo of a B&M car but I could make out the number and was unable to find anymore photos of B&M cars on the few w

A question for the group. I have not had any luck finding a roster of USRA and USRA copy wood cabooses. I know the following roads had them and a partial list of numbers. Boston & Maine ?-? Central Ve

Dennis wrote: Exactly what I am working on right now. There were three versions that were rebuilt. One has the side doors with solid ends sometimes called a work train caboose or rider car. The other

Group I have a question regarding the dates of K brake phase out. I know K brakes were banned from interchange in/about 1953, but when were K brakes banned from new installations and heavy rebuilds? T

The car is assigned to Oldsmobile Lansing Mich. for sheet metal parts. The car is listed on page 60 (page 94 of the PDF) in Freight Cars Assigned to Special Service on the MCRR dated June 1947. The fi

As Ray said American Model Builders has a laser cut kit of the 19000. See my article in the 1st Quarter 2015 NYCentral Modeler, about building the AMB kit. https://nycshs.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/n