I found that railroads were not the only users of Pintsch Gas. It was also used to light coastal buoys and such. The pictured car could therefore be delivering gas for those uses as well as rail needs

The pump

Disappointment, yes and no. Yes about not lettering a car in Andy's colorful livery. No in that I have insight into tank car traffic for my layout. Richfield Oil had a tank farm served by the Santa Fe

Well done Chris, good looking cars

Multiscale Digital also makes the finest scale model (my opinion) of the GE Turboencabulator that has ever been produced!

Thanks to Ed Hawkins and everyone who chimed in with this interesting puzzle. Just to summarize what has been said: 1. Ed provides an airtight indentification. Bravo! 2. I checked all my SP resources

It does seem rather late, but CN had lots of little branchlines where they had to continue passenger service. Electric lighting of passenger cars in this service was always problematic because the car

Pintsch gas was use to light passenger cars at one point. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

Surprised to see one in service in 1961 (a year after this list’s end date). Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

Flat Car Deck: What Color? I have a Tangent Scale Models HO scale GSC sixty-foot flatcar. The car is supposed to be a Santa Fe Class Ft-7. It has a build date of 4-56 which is perfect as I model 1956.

And, my heavens, the same photo shows up on Fallen Flags: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/cn/cn51845jpa.jpg Ed Edward Sutorik

Pinch gas is made by the railroad and is used for non electrified coach lights. Each car has a storage tank mounted underneath which is filled before each run. Usually you can see a gas line down the

I just discovered this photo online: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/fc/7d/c0fc7d934845175f17faf35fc4477561.jpg There was no commentary that I could see. Ed Edward Sutorik

Chris They look fine models. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I am sorry my photos did not make it into ioGroups. Let's try that again. Here are photos of S scale SAL pulpwood cars the SAL made from flatcars with a simple addition made from used rails. Again apo

Rio Grande merged with Richfield in 1936. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

In my 7/35 ORER, Rio Grande (RGOX) was still a stand-alone, and also in the 1936 tariff.. Ian Cranstone's on-line tabulation shows the RGOX reporting marks in use by Richfield from 7/37 to 4/38 (my 1/

My 1938 ORER lists RGOX under Richfield Oil of California. Cars listed as RGOX are 101,102 201-255 601-606 607, 608 609-623 800, 801 802 804-810 811-815 816 Al Smith Sonora CA

I’ve learned something new; the photos I posted were from 40’ SS boxcars, hence the ‘Z’ bracing and not rebuilt from the 120000 series. The cars in Ed’s diagrams are the earlier 36’ DS cars and would

The toolmaker at Front Range Products (AKA Tapp Industries) was Fred Brummet (sp?). He was later one of the founding partners at Intermountain. Fred Becker, owner of Front Range and Brummet's boss, li