The CB&Q was allocated 500 double sheathed box cars, even though the company had switched to single sheathed ones in 1913. The USRA ones only lasted on the roster for about 33 years, until 1951, compa

But has anyone a link for a 1902 ORER? Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

Staying with the wrecking equipment, does anyone recognise the origin of the boom car 207313? The attached photo by Bernard Corbin shows the boom car with CB&Q's 75 ton Industrial wrecking derrick 204

Elden There was a second photo of this event, as attached. I think that the only date given was the 50’s and no location. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

Brent I’ve checked the BRHS model index and there isn’t one listed for the FM-7. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

Steve The closest would be ones built by AC&F in 1909, class FM-7, numbered 90000-90525 with 247 more the following year, numbered 90253-90499. They had a steel, fish belly underframe, 40' 6" length a

To provide some clarification to the discussion (looking into the future) - According to ORER’s, the first group of CB&Q leased Mather cars, 20000-20139 (40’ 3” inside length) was received between Feb

Tim Thanks for the photos and to the others who replied with information. Looking through a CB&Q-published 1969 Equipment List, I found that it lists MNX 1700-243 and LNX 2444-2464 as being leased to

I am trying to identify all the cars in the National Car Company which were owned by the CB&Q / BRE. So far I have MNX 1700-2364, starting in 1949, with 2444-2464 being changed to LLNX in 1967. LLNX w

My apologies. Meant to be forwarded but hit the reply button by mistake. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ From: Rupert Gamlen Sent: Friday, 6 November 2020 8:25 am To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: RE: [

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Bob I don’t know about these particular cars but the CB&Q built some double deck stock cars in 1905-6, class SM-2 numbered 51990-51999 (renumbered in 1914-5 to 60650-60659) with SEC Universal / Eyler'

Dave I’ve checked the newspapers (through the National Library’s newspaper collection) for the 20’s and 30’s and found that there was a company called Nash Motors NZ Ltd. having the sole agency for Na

As New Zealand’s population was so small, it did not have its own vehicle manufacturers, so vehicle were either shipped here complete or partially disassembled, crated, transported by rail and then sh

HT-3 191000-191499 HT-4 191500-191749 Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

190000-191749 were twin hoppers in classes HT-1 to HT-4, built between 1926 and 1929 with an outside length of 35’ 1”. 190672 was an HT-2, built at Galesburg in 1927-8. 192000-193199 covered classes H

Historically speaking and being parsimonious - It has been the custom for all time to paint the trucks black. This necessitated the changing of pots and brushes when the painting of the body was finis

Claus Thanks for this link but I think it may be too old for some members. Box car 26519 was built by Wells & French in 1891 (26503-26753), while 26259 behind it (if that is the correct number) was bu

CB&Q 56315 was built by the Burlington at its Galesburg shops in 1926-27, part of class SM-18A group numbered 56200-56699. They were constructed using National Dump centre sills from retired GA-12 and

Dennis Material relating to these waycars is very scant, and I can’t recall the BRHS publishing anything about these cars other than three photos and a diagram. Now that I have found the varied legisl