my guess is that the three compartment tank car contained refinery products used in smaller quantities like lube oils. everywhere that I've lived there were tank farms by water. for a couple of years

That's an expensive car to cut up. It's a very nice car on it's own. Every so often you'll find one for sale on ebay. Redball had both plastic and metal versions of a Buckeye end. I don't know if that

don't know why but Howard Ameling (NKP "expert") called them basket cars. NKP steam era stock cars (the ones proceeding these) are featured in the RMC planbook and Mainline Modeler's stock car book. e

The description says it is a glass negative. I was an engineer (chemical engineer) at the plate manufacturing department of Eastman Kodak from 1973-78. We manufactured photographic glass plates which

wasn't the original Tichy box car end (#3001?) for a USRA double sheathed car? have you tried using a Yarmouth ladder as a substitute ladder stile? can they be filed down? you might also try using a Y

Around 1981 I worked in a factory where we got it in bags and large cardboard boxes lined with plastic film. It had very light density. Factory made copy machine toner.

looks like someone had a pencil sharpener

you can buy the Hundman book from bookfinders for about $14. I have the book; it's worth $14. Ed Mines

I bought a package of #11 surgical blades from ebay for a couple of dollars.

Maybe they're racks for tomatoes?

I bought an expensive one from a site I learned about on the old STMFC forum which sells to professional machinists - it worked real well and wasn't outrageously expensive. I've been using carbide mic

roof flashing?

my recollection is that NKP freight car diagrams used to be available on the internet under the umbrella "alphabet route"

what about sand used to make concrete? when I was a kid there were 2 abandoned sand quarries near my home where sand had been taken for building homes. One was filled with water and is now a park.

There was an article on these cars along with drawings in Mainline Modeler.

My recollection is that the car was a one-of-a-kind with experimental sides. Can't remember how I know this. I've seen this photo or a similar one several times before, maybe in a CBC or Trainshed

I found the same thing in the book Men of Erie published just after WWII. I hope you didn't pay full price for that book. there are better ones on the market.

Rob, a nice kit for these cars is available from F&C.

Yes. I found 2 photos of the cars you asked about - 14781 & 14001 - with black diamonds on a lighter colored (freight car red?) background.

what makes you think the car had a police escort? it's possible a car full of sugar would be targeted by strikers. ed mines