Hi List Members, Grand Rapids & Indiana (a PRR subsidiary) class GS gondola in Brighton MA in 1918... https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:f4752p47h Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, Two nearly identical views of double sheathed boxcar GT 5555 in 1904... https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:z890s3311 https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/co

Hi List Members, Image of reefer MDT 12083 in 1911 https://www.historicnewengland.org/explore/collections-access/gusn/197665/ Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Claus, It looks like it might be an ATSF BX-31 - Shake-n-Take 2014 ;) Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."

Hi List Members, B&O and ERIE boxcars [ca. 1898–1907] https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:br86bc63s Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, Images of PRR 288917 (PRR class GS) gondola in 1918 https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:f4752p891 https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:f4752p87g

Hi List Members, Some of us will enjoy seeing these images of D&H heavy duty flat cars 50000-50001 taken in the 1920s... https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/27777 https://hdl.

Thanks, Ben! Elden Gatwood

Elden Just an observation - Railroads do consider that X54 car to be a "reefer" - RB. All of the railway literature and especially financial reports I've read classify RB/L cars as reefers or refriger

Couple of several interesting photos showing unloading of bulk cement from boxcars. http://www.bigbendrailroadhistory.com/2018/12/grand-coulee-cement-boxcar-unloading.html Doug Harding www.iowacentral

Freight Terminals & Trains The 1912 book, Freight Terminals & Trains by John A. Droege, has a ton material applicable to the Steam Era. Here is a link. Freight Terminals and Trains: Including a Revisi

I bought these cars for cheap at a trainshow the other day, I knew when I bought them they'd need work. I'm sure there's cars that line up with these, I just don't know of what. Anyone know? Dimension

Hello, I currently have a Walthers GACX express reefer that I was doing some modifications to match it with the PFE prototype. The problem is I got carried away and damaged the paint and some of the w

And to complete the Droege “trilogy”, Yards and Terminals and Their Operation is also available on google books; https://www.google.com/books/edition/Yards_and_Terminals_and_Their_Operation/AGw5AAAAMA

Scanning some photos by Raymond V. Pelot of Martinez today, I noticed a pair of Shell tank cars in the foreground. SCCX 1114 was a 7960 gal TMI with heater coils and a 345 gal dome. The silver Shell c

Friends, I did a search of this and several lists and could not find an answer, has anyone ever shortened a Kadee running board? I am building a Rail Shop Carbon Black Hopper and want to replicate a 1

Mont Switzer's 2017 Chicagoland RPM presentation motivated me to model a Monon boxcar. O-scale CIL 9157 began as an Intermountain kit. I scratchbuilt a new roof walk for it from styrene strips, and I

Thanks for the pic, Mike! I only saw some Monon coke cars when I visited relatives in Indiana. They looked different from anything else. No, sadly, I never saw them in Pittsburgh, but I haven’t stoppe

Mike, Eldon and all, The info that I have shows the MONON had two designs of composite coke cars. CIL 1019 is a former low side stone gon onto which the composite coke body was lowered and secured. MO

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