Photo: Loading Boxcar With Artillery/Bomb Shells (Circa 1919) Photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86717616 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. Anyone know if these a

Photo: Poultry In Crates Inside Poultry Car (Undated) A photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148742419 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. Taken at Rockingham County,

MORNING ALL: Here is a shot from a PFE refer at the Paris museum near Los angled. Above the truck is a devise in the area where a defect card holder is normally placed. This is unlike any defect card

And comparing the R-40-14 ends to the R-40-25 ends we see the characteristic change in the topmost major rib that occured about 1949 and model companies have mostly ignored (with the exception of one

Photo: War Material In Gondola Cars (1918) Photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/45518110 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. Budd Manufacturing Company. I’m not sure

Here is 44739 Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Dan Smith <espeefan@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date: Monday, October 10, 2022 at 8:19 PM To: <main@Real

More refrigerator car photos taken by Dallas Gilbertson, North Western Refrigerator Line Refrigerator Car NWX 10548 at Santa Maria, CA in May 1953. Tom Dill Collection, Pacific Northwest Railroad Arch

In a recent message, I've noticed another example of a double sheathed car with no fascia, the metal roof being nailed directly to the car siding. Dennis Storzek

Japanese Internees Unloading A Boxcar Photo from the National Archives. Circa 1942-1945. Caption: “Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Volunteer workers loading a truck from a boxcar for tran

Early Intermodal?

Shoot me now. Another color controversy. I was about to paint 3 more SP BX-13/-14 Sunshine kits, when my Rapido SS USRA cars showed up (left in photo). And what is this? poop brown? Following a long r

Has anyone made a list of what manufactures have made PS-1 boxcars in HO scale and what attributes each model has? Something like Kadee 40' PS-1 Boxcar 10 panel, 6' Youngstown Door etc. I am trying to

One more refrigerator car from the lens of Dallas Gilbertson, Pure Carbonic Co. dry ice refrigerator car DICX 319. Tom Dill Collection, Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive. Richard Wilkens Director of

Richard Townsend wrote: "What I know of is: Kar-Line (later Cannonball) AHM (later Con-Cor) McKean Intermountain Kadee" Not quite right: Kurtz Kraft (NOT Kar-Line; later Cannonball) AHM (later Model P

Dave Wetterstroem asked: "Has anyone made a list of what manufactures have made PS-1 boxcars in HO scale and what attributes each model has?" AFAIK, not recently, and not since additional PS-1 models

Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone ------ This is the other experimental aluminum refer as Tony pointed out. They came from different builders and were not identicle. The most noticeable

I built and upgraded Southern Car & Foundry Tank car resin kit 2005. It is a different design 8,000 gallon tank car as it has a 6 course radial tank with different safety valve location that I lettere

Long time Santa Fe N-scale modeler, convention chairman and ATSF art aficionado Gene Rutledge has his collections up for auction this month by Huismanauction.com. Auction info and links to the two on-

A slight bit out of era for this list, but I'm looking for information on Canadian Pacific 41' Drop Bottom Gondola's, specifically those known as the Big Otis. I was browsing through Canadian Freight

Note the order the heralds are applied: SP leading on one side with UP leading on the other. Dead giveaway. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)