WHAT A PHOTO! Wow. Definitely St Louis. That concrete shoreline runs for a good distance. A rebuilt PFE BR-1 - Before the rebuilding the road name was written on a wide fascia "letterboard". Tim O'Con

Beautiful photo. This is STL. The TRRA's High Line. The old, but in service TRRA lines are visible below that serviced a number of warehouses before the Arch was built. Jerry Michels

Larry King wrote: Well, as it happens, you are wrong. It's a totally conventional PFE passenger express reefer. Tony Thompson tony@...

Nice job on an old classic David Leider

If memory serves, the group of R40-10s were the only freight reefers to enter express service. In the photo, there's a tapered shadowline from the ice hatch platform to the roof. That's a giveaway tha

Hi Bob and List Members, Thanks for the great links. In the image linked below, the composite gon is probably a CB&Q class GM-1/GM-2 48' 6" IL mill gon https://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Detai

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

Interesting photo of two NYC GPs on an elevated structure somewhere (St. Louis?) with train consist including a green PFE reefer and numerous NYC baggage cars. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q7sAAOSw7

Thanks, that's precisely the information I needed. Ron Merrick

Photos: Miscellaneous Freight Cars Fair quality photos from the PhillyHistory website: https://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Detail.aspx?assetId=5328 Circa 1900. https://www.phillyhistory.org/Pho

Ron, IC open top cars were black until 1947. In 1947 they began painting them red. In 1955 they went back to black. In1955 they began replacing the wood sides with steel sides in the war emergency hop

I see from published photos, and kit notes, that IC two-bay hoppers were painted red in the fifties era. I have a P2K two-bay hopper model, originally a war emergency car and rebuilt with steel sides,

I looked at this, and the 1950 photo of #672, and assumed they were used as way cars (LCL). Beautifully kept, weren't they? Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

If the photo date is correct (1957) would the truss rods and arch bar trucks also indicate "non interchange" use only?

i was thinking the same thing, no dims? ;-)

Were these cars in captive service? Todd Horton

Nice work, Lester! Makes me want to tear down my Storzek original and start over.... Bob Chapman

Photo: Tremont & Gulf Ry. Boxcar 668 (1957) A photo from the Texas Transportation Archive: https://www.ttarchive.com/dtphoto.aspx?id=N8VA14M7VBR Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Nice build of an interesting car. The finish is well done. Bob Allan Omaha

Lester, Terrific build! This car has a lot of appeal and one that surely stands out in a train! Bud Rindfleisch