Came across the wire. The date is a late for my interests -- these usually sell for $65.... 1. Moody's Industrial Manual American and Foreign 1958 by Moody, John New Haven, CN, Moody's Investor Servic

<John Nehrich wrote: The WM ball herald was being used by the late'30's. Can anyone pin down the date it was adopted a little closer? - John> According to _WM Cabooses_ by Dwight Jones (WMRHS, 1991) _

I was under the impression that InterMountain had made a variation on their '37 AAR box car with 12 panels, but from a flyer I got at the Springfield show, this is a variation on their '44 car. And it

Prototype Modelers Seminar – East 2001 UPDATE 1:00 PM Friday, March 23 through 6:00 PM Saturday, March 24, 2001 Holiday Inn, Monroeville (Pittsburgh), PA, (Exit 6, PA Turnpike) This meet is a follow o

FYI, in Warren Wing's Northwest Rail Pictorial (p. 121) is a 1943 photo showing an IC GS gondola (blt GATC 1940) #85121 on a Milwaukee Road local south of Seattle, loaded with lumber! So at least duri

Speaking of GS gons in the Northwest, there is a shot of a C&S GS gon at Tacoma in '47 on pg 78 of Northern Pacific Supersteam Era. Anyone having this excellent book should take a look at pg 42 if you

As I reported earlier...sometime during this century I believe...pg 99 of Northern Pacific Classic Steam Era shows a string of Canadian Pacific gons of some kind at Missoula, Montana in '40. There's a

Dear friends: Since this group opened for business, I have noticed a great increase in SPAM posts in my e-mail. Many, though not all, come from the domain "yahoo.com". I believe this is the price we p

Same book; this time a D&RGW GS gondola loaded with coal, on an NP [mixed] local in Centralia, Washington in the 1950's... (So, it would appear Utah coal travelled to Washington state.) Timothy O'Conn

Apparently REA changed their paint scheme in 1952, adding the diamond logo, at which time the name was taken down off the letterboard and put on the left of the door, maybe to help balance the scheme.

I would love to pore over those photos of IC and MDT reefers! And a help would be for someone to identify build dates for these from the 1953 & 1959 ORER: IC 50000-50283 7' 3"IH IC 50284-50299 7' 1"IH

Does anyone know of a resource that points out the differences between the early steel reefers of the major refrigerator lines? What I am trying to determine is, using the PFE's R-40-10 through R-40-2

I have not seen anyone report on this but among the highlights at Timonium in late January were steam era freight car photos made by the late Col. Chet McCoy. Bob's Photo purchased Col. McCoy's negati

Folks In one of the CBCs from the interwar peiod - '31 IIRC- there is a picture of an IC USRA hopper retrofitted with Wine door locks in place of the Enterprise ratchet I'm aware that this was a not u

The past couple of years Martin Lofton has set up shop at WinterRail on the Saturday preceding his Pleasanton meet. Is that happening this year? Martin hasn't sent me any info since last fall (hey, I'

"tgmadden" <tgmadden@...> wrote: Indeed, the consolation for those taking two nights from the west coast is that both routes from California stop right in Naperville. While the overnight trains from t

Richard Hendrickson writes: No doubt the tinplaters (forerunners of today's train set > bozos -I CAN say that here, can't I?) The term "bozo" is an approved and acceptable term for use on the STMFC...

Guys, In my collection are several pictures of Cotton Belt wood sheathed boxcars built in the mid-1920's. On the upper right side of some of them is stenciled the admonition "Post No Advertisements".

Just noticed the Accurail version of the B&LE USRA hopper is black, not their distinctive brown. Were B&LE hoppers ever black, or were the USRA-type cars in a special service and so painted? (I think

Has anybody out there seen this piece of crap that Eastern Car Works just brought out? It looks like the tooling was cut in the 30s or 40s, even before N&W built them. Somebody please send them plans