David, Columbian Carbon’s reporting marks were CCX. For the referenced 1952 date of the photo, CCX car numbers ranged from 211-307, 95 cars in service as of 1/52. They were built in relatively small g

Bill, From the diagram….No. 14 ga. C.B. galv. steel sheets & No. 11 ga. galv. saddles; SREM Co. Several good photos clearly illustrate the roofs were of the Murphy rectangular raised-panel type. Seabo

Tim, The Seaboard diagram for 23000-23499 denotes the ends as..…4” deep corrugations; 5/16” top & 1/4” bottom sections; Mt. Vernon Drwg. No. 508-D-18895. Thus, it’s apparent these ends were designed b

Eric, I don’t know if this will be of any help, but here goes. About 30 years ago I obtained permission from ACF to cut slivers from larger paint samples that are glued to the inside covers of bill of

Don, In 1940 George Sisk photographed ART 247 from series 200-299, built in July 1930 by the Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Co. The cars with wood sides & ends had steel fish-belly center sills. These

John, If new Wabash box cars built in 1948 by ACF were indicative of repainted box cars of the period, then the truck side frames should be #10 Wabash Red. Regards, Ed Hawkins

Aaron, All I have to go by are original paint specs. The AF-1 cars 11000-11699 eceived metallic brown for the entire car including doors, underframe & trucks. Stencils were white as these cars predate

Aaron, Seaboard’s turtle-back roof auto cars measured 14’-6 1/2” from rail to top of the Apex (11000-11999) or Blaw-Knox (22000-22199) running boards, and they were not equipped with brake regulators.

Eric, No joy yet. I inquired with Gene Fusco about the project because I have been one who pushed for it, along with Al Hoffman. Both of us pushed & provided the necessary information for selfish reas

Bill, To help answer your question, I have a number of in-service photos that can be used to bracket the date. EJ&E 61205 was built “new 8-48" with a scheme painted freight car red. A photo taken 6-24

Bob, The UP BA-50-2 ballast cars were built as ACF lot 156. They were 33’-2” length & 1982 cu. ft. capy. Other cars of similar design were: C&S 15150-15249, lot 214, built 8-26 CB&Q 220000-220199, lot

Garth, Apex Tri-lok, Blaw-Knox, Kerrigan, and the redesigned version (late-1953 to early 1954) of the U.S. Gypsum running board & brake step were all rectangular open-grid design with a similar overal

Ken, There are a number of changes that could be made to back-date the model, however, the significant issue is the UP B-50-40 PS-1 box cars built in 1948 came with 6’ door openings while the B-50-52

Steve, Pullman Lot 5457 was for 50 cars, SRIX 101-150. A side-view builder photo of SRIX 101, built 10-29, was published on p. 191 of the 1931 Car Builders’ Cyclopedia. Drawings also appear on pages 1

Tim, In Oct.-Nov. 1951 the WP received 600 PS-1 box cars WP 20801-21400 built by Pullman-Standard in lot 8027. The first 20 cars 20801-20820 were equipped with Compartmentizers and received aluminum-p

Garth, The box cars offered by Branchline Trains were typically available in a 4-pack, which in some cases represented a mix of both new and repainted cars, plus a 5th model available to be bought as

Paul, The 7/38 ORER denotes UP 175000-175399 as 40-ton XA auto cars, 50’-3” IL, 10’ IH, 9’-2” IW, staggered doors 9’-11” width, A-end door 1.5’ x 1’, 4626 cu. ft., 389 cars in service. A 1941 UP diagr

Johannes, The following link provides history & data on the B-50-25 box cars that began in 1939 as UP 9100-9199. RP CYC Volumes 6 and 8 also provide information & photos. In addition the UPHS has publ

Johannes, Based on ACF & Pullman-Standard paint specs and good builder photos for C&O box & auto cars, I can help to narrow the range to 3-years (8-37 to 10-40) when the change of door color took plac

Garth, While there’s no credit for the Duryea underframe cars on the STMFC web site, I believe Ted Culotta developed the original list. Any additional equipment having Duryea underframes not currently