Fabulous story, Ken! This is the weird stuff we rarely talk about, but is fascinating. The correspondence is a good read, because the car owner and RR on which the car was destroyed/damaged, usually c

Bill; I wish I still had my copy, but it never got back to me after I loaned it. That is a FABULOUS photo. I looked at it often. I wish I had that one in my digital files. There is a lot of correspond

Tim; Thanks for the fabulous photo! I have not seen that one. Wonder how the tank car ignited? I saw a lot of burnt cars on the PRR during childhood. Hot steel and wooden parts don’t mix. There was a

Is there a decal set that features the logos (Gulf, Flying A, etc.) for the ends of the tanks at a bulk oil distributor? Thanks in advance for any help. Bill.Pardie

Red Owl foods had grocery stores in Minnesota and some in surrounding states. They had a warehouse in Hopkins Minn. on the M&StL. I was given a seal book to transcribe from the middle on 1949 to Jan 1

Hi guys, An early F&C kit was the 37' wood meat reefer. I was looking at images of it, and it seems to be a different prototype from the Rapido reefer (wider fascia below the roofline and perhaps a lo

Guys; At least on PRR: early gon and hopper side replacements involved removing the rivets, then replacement of side panels or boards, followed by re-riveting, painting and lettering. As time went by

Thanks Dave and Steve. This info works very well for me. Another great example of the shared help available from this fine list. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Gary; How about this one: PRR FD1 casting on PRR F31A, 1951. I have another somewhere of the F30A castings upside down shipped on a series of flats, but can’t find it. There are also photos of loco fr

From Ted Cullota's series of books, "Focus on the Freight Car vol ten other freight car types" has some great photos of various tank cars pictured from the 1930s. One of particular interest to me is t

Photo: Mostly Gondolas (Circa 1940s) A photo from the University of Texas Libraries: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/sites/library.uta.edu.digitalgallery/files/20080000-20089999/20089977.jpg Cl

Group; I may have missed my mark. PRR created the X54 to provide Campbell’s Soup in particular, a fleet of cars for which they could avoid dependence on gathering enough other cars to meet their daily

Elden Gatwood wrote: But many of the GA-E cars were leased to the railroads. Did not the lessor own that loader equipment? Tony Thompson tony@...

Thanks, Elden. I guess I'm being too obvious. Jim Hunter

Would anyone know what color the ACL painted their 40’ flatcars in the mid 1940’s? Thanks in advance Matthew Hurst PRRT&HS #6799

November 1961 on the CNJ at Lake Junction, NJ. Matheson 8884, a fairly modern plug door dry ice car, follows Erie and LV covered hoppers behind Baldwins 72 and (I think) 74 northbound after picking up

Group, I want to start a project to convert about 15 reefer cars from K brakes to AB brakes and need brake reservoirs. I don't want to steal just the reservoirs from Tichy or other sets and have enoug

Clark; Generally, they had to make some reasonable accommodation in either too hot summer, or too cool winter, to accommodate canned goods. Reefers were perfect, but jealously guarded by their owners.

Photo: NKP Livestock Car 41001 Courtesy of Adam C. Matthews on Facebook. He comments: "Where's the beef? It's riding the Nickel Plate! Shipping up to six trains of livestock per day, and faster than a

Stencil On CB&Q Boxcar This photo of CB&Q Boxcar 25776 was posted on the CB&Q Group by Hol Wagner. What caught my eye was the stencil spelling out what commodities should not be loaded in this car: DO