OOPS I missed those 45' FGs. They are in the ORER table. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736

The end car, riveted with stake pockets, matches up with CMStP&P 67051 and 67053. Between '49 and '52 they were renumbered to 601051 and 60152. Later, Bill Kelly On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:37:36 +0000 (UT

Elden: That's the summary I was expecting, with regard to where those cars actually were as their reported numbers were declining. Considering how many resin and plastic cars I'm currently working on,

Hi Bob and List Members, Thanks Bob for the reference to that nice image. Other good images can be found on the site. Some of my favorites are at the links below. Unloading containers of lime from gon

I forgot to mention! Funaro & Camerlengo now have an SP F-200-1 model flat car. I bought the kit at the Springfield show. It's catalog #8471. (Misprinted labels say F22-1) :-)

Dan Well, he did say "brake wheels" to me - but it could have been a slip of the tongue. MODERN is of course relative - MOST brake wheels from the late 1950's onward were of the so called "modern" var

I’m aware that in the 1950’s and 1960’s the Nickel Plate rolled wood boxcars and cabooses off of their trucks and onto their sides where they were burned. They then salvaged the remaining metal and of

I wonder if the building was a 'boxcar burner'? Back in the late seventies I had some dealings with Purdy Co., a scrap merchant in Hammond, Indiana, located just north of State Line Tower. We were buy

Placard: Tin Cans Just to show that tin can loads were called out for special handling: https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N082_0371_001.jpg Description: "SCRAP RUBBER COLLECTIONS BEGIN TO LE

Fabulous story, Mont! Wish I could have seen that. Elden Gatwood

Another source of door sreening for ventilated boxcars is Precision Scale #48262. I do not know the size of the screening used on the prototyes and wonder of anyone has ever thought to measure this on

I spoke to them last fall at the Narrow Gauge Convention in Sacramento. At that time I was told it would be 6 months to a year on some items. They had just acquired the physical assets of Rail Graphic

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request. While I’m not a y'all road modeler, one of these neat cars could occasionally make an appearance. -Clark Cooper

During the early 1990's I made regular visits to Altoona, PA on business. While there I observed a metal building being built in an industrial area. It was sort of like your typical steel building exc

Ron; Yes. Those X29, and X28A that did not get chosen for the X29B, X29D, X29E, X29F, and X29G rebuilding campaigns were being set aside for scrapping, from the late fifties thru sixties, when they we

Boy will they be surprised when they find out that boxcar kit is actually a reefer. I suppose it was ebayed and not in the original box. ;^) Jack Mullen

Westerfield instruction sheets rarely show car end data, no matter the era, even in as-built lettering. No help there. Perusing all the Focus on Freight Cars books (images are 1930's) and the Steam Er

Edited message follows: Hi john, et al., Drawing from your listing of possible candidates, and being a certified (or maybe certifiable) SPF, I did a little research regarding the PRR cars listed. The

Hi john, et al., Drawing from your listing of possible candidates, and being a certified (or maybe certifiable) SPF, I did a little research regarding the PRR cars listed. The hundred PRR Class F30 50

Wright Trak was furnishing instructions on a small size CD for the V-9 and V-10 cars unle he finally changed to rinted ones. Cordially, Don Valentine