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

I’ve found some of the individual states legislation on the construction of cabooses in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report for 1914 at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=caboose;id=hvd.h

My thanks to all who responded to my query. The article that Charlie Vlk has provided seems to answer my questions. Just need to find copies of the legislation for the states in which the CB&Q operate

Does anyone know about nation-wide legislative restrictions on the use of four wheel cabooses in about 1910, or employment agreements that may have restricted their use to branch lines or yards? I und

Tom There is an “Outline of Express History” published by the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society as Bulletin No. 40 in 1936. It is available to read online through JSTOR (sign up to read 6 articl

I know that National Malleable & Steel Castings had a type B truck, introduced in about June 1931, and a type C truck, introduced in about 1946, but was there a type A? Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

Dennis ORER figures for XM-24’s 1930 493 1935 492 1940 488 1945 478 1946 475 1947 472 1948 August 400 1949 August 239 1949 November 175 1950 August 77 1951 February 38 1951 October 5 1952 November 0 R

Eric You can add CB&Q class XA-10 cars to your list. 46000-46481 were rebuilt at the company’s Aurora shops in 1926 from XA-5’s numbered 45000-45499 which had originally been built in 1913 by Haskell

See Burlington Bulletin 28 page 26 Carnation had six BREX cars, repainted in 1932, CMX 4201-4206 and 40 former FGE 36000 series cars (1933) CMX 6400-6439. They had a large red, white, green and black

Scott 20507 was a class XP-1A built in 1942 at Galesburg, one of only 10 in the class (20500-20509), with a mono rail and hoist, and an end door 9’ 1” x 10’. Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

In case you have a spare few minutes!

But not always, exactly! The CB&Q had 28 barrel cars in service when the two letter AAR code system was agreed upon in 1910. There was no letter group for barrel box cars so the Burlington designated