I'm trying to determine the differences between insulated boxcars (AAR designation XI) and bunklerless refrigerator cars (RB or RBL), and don't see any real difference in design or use (although the O

Clark, You are a week ahead of schedule! The 2020 event was set for next weekend. It was cancelled in March. Details were posted on the website and in messages to several discussion groups. http://www

My late friend Wayne Madison made this roof pattern for the SSW rebuilt box car. It has a lot of additional material for what I can only figure must have been part of the rebuild process. Ed mentions

Photo: FGEX 35754 With Potato Load (1943) Photo from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/42655/rec/6 Scroll on the photo to enlarge

I like the roof (and roofwalk) colors And note the ratio of wood roofwalks (most) to steel (very few) Ken -- Ken Akerboom

Photo: Wabash Gondola 2963 (Undated) Photo from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/42531/rec/7 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. B

Hi there, I'm looking for some WWII era colour images of CB&Q wood boxcars as a basis for painting and weathering a model. I intend to go through the Farm Administration Library of Congress collection

Photo: Pacific Electric Boxcar 10069 (1947) Photo from the Los Angeles Public Library: https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/photos/id/28746/rec/40 Use the slider to enlarge the photo. Desc

Rob; As I recall, there are those great Delano photos, as well as others, taken in Chicago during WW2 that include some CB&Q cars. Elden Gatwood

Matt; Thanks for confirming that. I think I have seen a NKP box in that service. As improbable as it sounds, I think they nailed them in place, climbed the ladder to get out, then filled the car, then

My error. Here is PE 2417. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Thanks, Jack! I have not seen the explanation on why PRR chose that flooring in doorways only, for their X53 class meant for “sensitive” coil on pallets, but it may have been from their experience wit

https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_22169 Nice vacuum, too! Elden Gatwood

Photo: Rio Grande Flatcar 23018 (1956) Photo from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/12757/rec/9 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it.

PE Boxcar 2417 A friend sent me this photo from the Brea (CA) Museum. Seen is Pacific Electric boxcar 2417 in Brea in 1918. I checked Thompson's SP boxcar book and there is no PE series for this car s

Folks; How were these racks used? If for poultry, how unloaded? https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_12653 Thanks! Elden Gatwood

Photo: Pacific Electric Boxcar 2082 At El Monte Depot (Undated) Photo from the Los Angeles Public Library: https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/photos/id/85349/rec/180 Use the slider to en

George; You are certainly right. Yet the PRR also owned scores of purpose-built coke hoppers (H22). Plenty for everything the PRR did with coke. And who the heck wanted to unload a box car full of cok

Folks; Have any of you turned up any more on these cars? https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_12857 Was there a method behind the madness of using wooden box cars, and not hoppers, for shipping potentially

Ray; I am, too. They are not plugs, but added to the back of the doorway. I cannot find anything on how that was supposed to work, but assume it seals the doorway from escape of coke, although I do no