Photo: NYC Gondola 329127 (1920) A photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/HstoricPho/id/4833/rec/13 Use the arrows and scroll to enlarge the photo. Bob Cha

Hi List Members, I cannot quite make out whose rebuilt USRA boxcar this is, but someone will be able to nail it, especially given that there appears to be a map on the side of the boxcar https://www.d

Thanks for the info, Garth! Elden Gatwood

TJ, could you please contact me off list? cepropst@q.com

It's really quite fascinating. A lake frozen hard enough that multiple cars were driven out on it. but it's the harvesting that is interesting. How they did that. Schuyler > Erie subsidiary Wilkes-Bar

I have completed the build of a Sunshine Models resin kit of Northern Pacific (NP) double-sheathed Box Car 12833. If you are interested in the build of this resin kit of NP double-sheathed Box Car inc

Photo: Boxcars In 1902 A photo from Digital Commonwealth courtesy of Robert England: https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:vt150m265 Click and scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Titl

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