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

silver streak?

Yes, during the late steam era there were entire trains of express reefers on railroads in the anthracite region going to New York City, frequently ending with a coach or even several passenger cars.

My last employer sold solvent borne coatings.The most popular solvent was a mixture of toluene and MEK. Toluene (pronounced toolean by navy men) is an industrial narcotic - it gets you high. It is als

I've seen a couple of photos of former LV double door box cars rebuilt with a single door with the old lady billboard Susquehanna advertising.

Larry, this car was offered as a kit by Qualitycraft and later Gloor. I can USPS a photocopy (take a while to get it). Reply my e-mail ed_mines@....

I'm a little late to the show but at one time (1940s?) a man with a name something like Wisswasser offered O scale drawings of many RDG cars. I bought several in the '80s or '90s through the RDG socie