With my Jerry Hamsmith CB&Q FM-11 flat car kit ready to hit the paint shop, a pair of Multiscale Digital Kewanee Boilers on the way, Charlie’s placard PDF, in hand, a question. What was the background

While I can’t comment on the built date for the prototype that Walthers chose to base their model on. However the New York Central built their first 4-truck “transformer” car in 1949. These 58’4” cars

The 1” white stripes (or black for gray cars) on top of and below of the reporting marks started about 1933 and went to about 1959. For about a year into 1960, a single line was applied between the NY

Bob, this photo is shot at Illinois Central/New York Central’s South Water street terminal on Chicago. Yes those curving tracks were team tracks. The Chicago River is just off frame to the right, whil

NYC 92075 is a member of NYC lot 693-B, one of 100 cars numbered 92000-92099 built by Dispatch Shops (East Rochester, NY) in 1941. Builders photos can be found on the New York Central Historical Socie

The NJI&I being a local road to me, and a potential modeling interest, I can shed a little addition insight to the traffic. The agriculture implements were likely out of Oliver Farm Implements, earlie

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.