Guess I should have read the link before running my mouth... Larry King

Something I've always wondered about... Is it called Armour Yellow because it was the color Armour painted their reefers, back before there was a PFE? Larry King

Dear group In 1917 the B&O ordered a batch of steel underframe freight reefers. Plans were published in the "Railway Age" trade magazine. The article stated that the underframe was supplied by Ralston

Yes, it was rebuilt by Ryan- #257799 was in a Ryan ad in the 1922 CBD, along with a really neat rebuild of a King patent hopper car, also for NYC. The Lsection trucks I agree were probably original. L

There's a big difference between cars used in high speed mail and express service and cars which spend most of their time sitting on a siding near a construction site, and when they ARE moved,are move

Dear Mr Chaparro I do not see how you get the Archives Canada pictures. I get a screen showing the photo's catalog data but not the actual picture. This has been true of all the ones I have tried to o

I clicked on the link provided but do see a photo,only the archive listing What am I doing wrong? Larry King

Are you going to do more of these? L.King

Dear group Attached please find the picture I referred to in my previous post- A Pere Marquette all wood single sheathed auto/box car, perhaps a converted stock car? Larry King

This is an unusual car- an all wood single sheathed boxcar. Could it be a wood stock car converted to meet a shortage of box cars? I recall seeing a similar Pere Marquette car in the Steamtown DL&W ph

On the NYC, "S" denoted two things: It meant a "System" car that was "at home" on any NYC line, and it also (usually) meant a car having the highest allowable amount for repairs; thus usually the newe

I think that is an SP Harriman design flat car. As to the switch, I have heard of No.3 switches being used in the old days-like the DL&W circular freight house and yard on the waterfront in New Jersey

I think it might be an old SP O-50-4 fuel oil car from about 1905,those were large (12,000 gal) and both the small dome and the "fore and aft" elbow safety valves would fit. I also think it is a radia

Dear group A while back I was able to buy the Herald King decal set for the Pennzoil 3 compartment tank car described in a Model Railroader article of some years ago. This article had no prototype pic

This was actually a very common car on the NYC Lines-they had some 16000 of them. Some later rebuilt to outside stake cars,last ones in service about 1925. Larry King

Dear Mr. Burgess I'm sorry, the domain name of Mr MacLeod's address was cut off. I would like to get in touch with him Larry King

I was going through some old magazines and came across a reference to Doug MacLeod from Orinda CA as a maker of detail parts for model freight cars. Anybody know anything about him? Larry King

Dear group. I am currently finishing a Westerfield Erie Dominion Fowler box car. What would be some Erie track scale abbreviations ca.1930? Thanks for any help you can give Stay Safe!!! LR King <lrkdb

There was an article in RMC showing the "tall" 10' IH car-sorry I don't have the date but I think it was in the late 80's or early 90's.MRG for 12-1987 had an article with a lot of pictures but no pla

Back in the mid 1970's I used to see this type of car at the old Pennsalt plant in Riverview MI. Most of them looked like the ones in the 1940 CBD which was my basic resource then (the Kalmbach reprin