It looks like the brickwork joints on the left side were roughly and crudely repointed to repair water damage. If not properly cleaned, usually with Muriatic acid, a light coating from the mortar coul

There is a T-Rex oil company but I found no reference to tank cars. Lionel also offers this paint scheme. In any event, we need a time machine to find such future paint schemes.

In my youth U commuted with a Pennsy man whose job was to locate missing or misrouted cars. A full time job it seemed. The worst were a pair of long missing PRR box cars he finally located in Mexico.

I belong to the NMRA Facebook group and the posts age rife with questions from beginners, many obviously young because they want answers from the net and not from books or magazines. And they usually

A quick Google search led me to a site that stated oil recycling began in the 30s and grew substantially during WWII. Oil doesn’t wear out. It gets dirty and loses some of its components. Used oil can

The C&O also had similar cars with the reinforcing rods.

Coke was quenched for cooling and handling as it came out of the ovens. Photos of beehive ovens show spigots and hoses between ovens. It could also be bagged for smaller deliveries.

Cobb was a perennial Land Speed Record racer at Bonneville.

I like the meat rail running out to the car. My first reaction was it was a long way to carry a side of beef until I looked closer.

Clearly a limestone half column, or pilaster. Indiana limestone was the standard for many public buildings.

In Pittsburgh they were cement trucks to the Italian construction workers but concrete trucks to the rest. Often called “Italian ice cream!”

I had trouble orienting the photo until I realized it was the Panhandle Bridge in the background. My office overlooked this are but it was the 80s and all gone except for the line from the bridge and

It was reported there is a Homestead in Utah where the photo was apparently taken.

The references I have don’t show Utah operations for Carnegie Steel. Perhaps it’s like the local iron works in Irondale (near Port Townsend) WA that I was told was owned by Carnegie.Research on the co

You are correct and tar paper is one of my pet peeves, along with cinder blocks! CJ Riley Architect

I see the roof of Levenson Steel poking up. I worked there for a few weeks in the early 60s painting steel for I-7 in eastern Ohio. I was transferred there following 2months doing the same job at thei

I am very intrigued by the “hot rod” driving along the tracks at lower left!

Since the NMRA librarian position has been unfilled for years, there is no one to do anything about it. I am not sure how the transfer to the Sacramento library has proceeded but maybe that is the pro

I think you meant Jack Work. He wasn't the all American boy.

Amused by the crooked "decals"