S-40-4 stockcar. https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-R-S/i-vpHmfP2/A Dave Nelson

Clark, click on the link originally provided by Steve Hile in this email. Then click on “Freight Car Photo Gallery” in the bracket of “Scanned Drawings & Images” Enjoy! Schuyler, (who had to puzzle ou

Hi List Members, Whose hopper cars were these? Unique construction. It appears the reporting marks were painted out, leaving only the road number but no sign of the owning road. A 1936 date shows on t

Like the old Arby’s commercial -- Me: “Where’s the Door?”… : “Where’s the Door?” Oh…. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-2nFvPnk/3/X3/i-2nFvPnk-X3.jpg Dave Nelson

So Reading has a variety of cocao cars... 22870 has different roof hatches and different hopper doors than 12343. 12343 does appear to be repurposed drop-bottom box car, with the regular hopper doors

Sorry for the very random request - anyone have a lead on photos of the WAB 7000-7299 Series? Thanks! Dean ONeill Redmond WA

Guys; I have asked my B&LE/Union RR/EJ&E/other steel roads friends, who model earlier than I do, and will report back. The defect card holder is a clue….. Elden Gatwood

Looks great, Eric! Elden Gatwood

I started a Westerfield HO scale X23 boxcar kit in November 2015. The other morning I snapped photos of the almost completed model. It still needs Carmer uncoupling hardware. The model was painted wit

About 10% of the North American boxcar fleet in 1950 was 36ft. Southern owned a fair number of such survivors, maybe even this one: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-R-S/i-TF4QLQ8/A Dave Nelson

As repainted by Greenville in 1930: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-G/i-VTv5dd7 https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-G/i-t2r6hgK/A https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-G/i-ZdthJTf/A h

Photo: SP Yard An undated photo from the Huntington Library: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/21896/rec/638 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. This photo shows a great

A nice complement to the article in PRM Vol. 5: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-N-Q/i-3DTdsTD/A David Thompson

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 26432 (Undated) A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2775 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Too bad the stenc

I have completed the build of a Sunshine Models Southern Pacific (SP) single-sheathed rebuilt boxcar 32620 with “Pratt” truss design and Hutchins roof. If you are interested in the build of this resin

STMFC, A couple notes about the excellent Rapido HO NP boxcars in the 100000-13999 series. The January issue of Railroad Model Craftsman has a nine page, 20 photo article by Chris Frissell that descri

Guys; I agree it is tough to tell. The attached is one of the HD “Crown” Andrews-type used on the PRR, and the 70-ton and 100-ton are almost indistinguishable. The Bowser Crown would be a very usable

Guys; Lukens was a big manufacturer of tank heads, and RRs serving them often had dedicated cars to serve that diagonal loading requirement. RDG also had diagonal loader gons. Even though PRR had no d

Was looking at a partial page of a station record. Showed a carload of cement out of Des Moines Ia. (two cement plants there) was shocked at the initials. Here they are plus the number. Curious as to

Hi List Members, Tank car CCNX 1 in 1955 at Lukens Steel. Note the unusual position of the poling pockets, and the unusual dome. https://digital.hagley.org/72360_0717 https://digital.hagley.org/72360_