I wish RCW would consider the similar NYC 8 stake gondola as a subject-this was a very common car in the 1922-1950 period Larry King

I think they're off on the date- the first X23 was in 1912, and most were built in 1913.By 1915 they were building the all steel X25. Larry King

Thank you all for the computer advice! You made my day! LR King

A nice picture-pity it can't be downloaded... LR King

Corey makes the original version too LarryKing

Plano makes them in etched metal... Larry King

Maybe I'm wrong but is the PFE car one of their freight type wood reefers converted to express service like they did with steel R40-10 cars? Somehow it doesn't look like the regular wood express reefe

That car was one of the MDT reefers reconditioned by Pullman ca. 1945-this included external end reinforcement. Not an end door. Larry King

I don't have an exact date ,but the "S" prefix was no longer used by the mid 30's. Actually though that hopper looks more like the very late 30's and later NYC offset side hoppers.The 1920's era offse

This is an example of a Mather design 40' reefer built ca.1912 as I recall by Haskell and Barker.They are predecessors of the well known steel frame cars.There were quite a number of PO lessors of the

Not a builders photo- paint scheme is later than when this car was built: it is one of the original PFE R-30-1 or -2 cars built ca. 1906-07. Car number would be somewhere between 1 and 6600. Larry Kin

When I opened this it came up titled "leaving for 1937 flood zone" Note the archbar trucks still on the PRR gon Larry King

I have a question. What sort of documentation was done of rolling stock in the 1917-19 era ICC valuation of the railroads? Were pictures taken of the various classes of rolling stock like they did of

In the 1912 CBD, p.358-9 there are plans for a Frisco Refrigerator Line reefer. I presume this was also part of this consortium. Larry King

Just wanted to say, the 1909 CBD has complete drawings of this car. Also note that the original plate ends with vertical posts have been replaced with corrugated Murphy ends. Very typical of NYC in th

I wonder if it might have sometimes been that, faced with a large high value shipment like this power plant machinery that the RR might overhaul and paint cars just for that shipment,rather than just

These cars were a very significant part of the steam era NYC fleet-about 10500 cars built 1911-16(mostly in 1916) IRM has complete drawings. Larry King

Re the B&M cars- the 1916 CBD figure.425 on,pg.384 shows the Western Stl Car underframe for these cars. I'm not sure if this is exactly the same as the "B&M" underframe. Note these cars had 8x12 brake

Here's something I came across in the 1908 Railroad Gazette (online at archive.org) It is the steel reinforcement used by Armour Car Line to strengthen their wood reefers ca.1907. (note "Armour RSU 2"

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