Does anyone make SFRD Ice Hatch Latches? For whatever reason I am missing most needed to complete some Sunshine SFRD Rebuilt reefers. Thanks, Tom

Here is the last installment of "Daily Interchange Report of Cars" from the NJI&I to the Wabash at Pine in 1953. The following list is dated 07May53. All cars originated at South Bend. I am showing In

I misread a section of the website (and the sentence that I quoted) that made it clear that transportation is now by tank truck. So I will be looking for metal trucks out on the highway labeled "live

Here is the underside view and note the non-matching wheels of the truck in the PRR gondola behind it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/16038384558/in/photostream/ Gary Laakso Northwest o

Bob, I would concur with others who have said that this not really an "extreme" weathering job. Rather it looks to me to be a hard-working steam era freight car nearing its appointment with the paint

Soo Line Livestock Car 29667 A link to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum website: https://www.midcontinent.org/equipment-roster/wooden-freight-cars/soo-line-29967/ Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Photo: Freight Cars On Barges A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/11939/rec/60 Click on the arrows and scroll

Photo: Wilson Reefer 9272 A photo from the Penney Vanderbilt And KC Jones website: https://penneyandkc.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/maybrook_yard_005.jpg According to the January 1955 Equipment Registe

Photo: Oregon Fish & Game Commission Hatchery Transport Car Photo courtesy of Taylor Rush on the Facebook Early Rails Group. https://tinyurl.com/yn9kh4f8 His comment: “An interior shot of the Oregon F

Photo: Unloading Can Stock (1948) A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/7924/rec/116 Click on the arrows and sc

If you are modeling the 1930s or so like I am (August 1939) you might appreciate a new YouTube video that just came out on weathering…not how to but more what is appropriate. It is at https://www.yout

Chicago lakefront railyards - lots of information and photos http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/12/ic-freight-houses-along-michigan-avenue.html

Photo: Seaboard Boxcar 24145 A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/10118/rec/43 Click on the arrows and scroll

Hi List members, C&IM fans are gonna like this. All images 1948-1959. C&IM 6149 twin offset side hopper https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9~4AAOSwzOleXodq/s-l1600.jpg C&IM 8198 40ft ss boxcar https://i.e

B&O Sentinel Service Boxcars From: Allen Cain Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:43:09 CDT Would the B&O Timesave Boxcars have travelled off the B&O line or were these in captive service on the B&O? And thank

I've been working on a roster for a small short lived Michigan short line, the Keweenaw Central railroad. I have the report of original cost to date of freight cars that lists Fitz Hugh as the builder

Clarence, Given that the photographer’s notes are “Grain elevators alongside piles of materials at port” I think you are spot on and the archive misinterpreted that to be piles of grain. Regards, Bruc

Please check the 1955 Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) for Fort Dodge , Des Moines & Southern (FtDDM&S or FDDM&S) for , class VS, of series 932 - 946 (evens) on the roster. I have the 1955 C

Photo: DMIR Hopper Cars A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/9224/rec/13 Click on the arrows and scroll on the

Photo: Straddle Carrier And Boxcar With Lumber Load A photo from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries: https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsnorth/id/6854/rec/134 Click on