Eric, The tank cars are in an eastward freight. John King

Steve, I’ve seen other sources where P.H.P. represented Packing House Products. Not sure if that is the case here. John King

Does spraying Dullcote thinned with either MEK or lacquer thinner cause any problems when applied over acrylic paints? John King

Bill, Part of the end panel is raised and it looks like the mechanical unit is moved partially out for some purpose. Do you know of this was done for: Better cooling while loading? To put the car on o

Chuck, The future was 25 years ago. The 1990 NMRA convention contest in Pittsburgh featured Randy Anderson's scratch built HO Scale B&O O-27 gon with working hand brakes. John King

See RPC #4. Broadway did one of the 1929 design versions of the quad hopper. If you are modeling MP, MILW or MKT you are in luck. The other 1929 owners had some details that were different. B&O had th

 Hmmm.  Well I THOUGHT I was only responding to Curt, but it went to everyone.   Shows how much I know about the new format.   J ohn King --- In stmfc@..., <e27

Curt,   I only look at messages in the archives and do not get individual messages sent to my email .     With the new format (which I hate!), if go into the group archives and you

But an interesting story for the rest of us. I'll need LOTS of ladders. And, oh yes, to stay out of the South Florida jail, the truck and lumber would have almost certainly arrived in an STMFC. John K

Charlie, Tony, The B&O agent at Charles Town WV would have the local crew spot the Order Notify cars (STMFCs, of course) at the industry and would put padlocks on them until he had the released bill o

OK. I will admit that sometimes I don't really know the definition of a commonly used term, and I don't want to admit my ignorance by asking a "stupid" question. Good example is "spring plank". The ci

Brad, Search on "Lehigh and New England Railroad". You should find a site, "Lehigh and New England Railroad-Black Diamonds to Tidewater". It has an interactive map and when you click on the towns just

To partially answer my own question, a second search of the archives came up with message 13471 from old friend Tim Gilbert. He said that MDT supplied the reefers to BAR prior to 1948 but there is sti

A related question. The April 1948 ORER only shows one refrigerator car on the BAR roster. Does anyone know what company supplied refrigerator cars to BAR prior to the acquisition of the cars from MDT

The B&O Cumberland Div. timetable dated 9/27/37 refers to high and low pressure positions on the retaining valves. The high pressure position to be used on loaded coal trains and the low pressure posi

Tim, Bob, Agree with Bob's observation. The earlist photo of an M-53 with a replacement door I have has a weigh mark of "DU 11-50" Car number 381175. Unfortunatly, there is no data on the photo to ide

According to the timeline on the B&O Yahoo group site, the Billboard B&O lettering currently being offered on the Fox Valley car first appeared in 1962.(= the future for this group) The same chart sho

Here is a link to a photo in (I think)the University of Indiana collection showing an M-26 in the first 13 great states lettering. In this case, the color is definitely a version of the oxide red. htt

This sure became complicated. ACF put a drawing in several issues of the CBC. (see page 259 in the 49-51 issue) The drawing included a table with tank dimensions for various size Type 27 cars. The siz

Mark, I measured these and compared them to the drawing in the CBC and the series of "8.000 gallon" tanks from Overland are are closer in size to a 10,000 gallon tank. I don't remember seeing a three