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

GSC was located in Eddystone, PA, near the Baldwin Locomotive Works. GSC supplied the industry with one piece engine beds/frames with cylinders cast integrally, tender trucks, tender under frames and

Guys; I can attest to the fact that “foobie” was a term in use in SoCal while I was living there, mid-late 80’s at earliest, early 90’s at latest, to refer to a certain part of female anatomy enhanced

Boiler Load Project This started out as a simple enough project: Put a Bachmann boiler on an HO scale Red Caboose/InterMountain flat car. I've done a number of flat car loads, including using smaller

This photo is said to have been taken ca.1910 at the Eastern Packet Pier looking at the Commercial Wharf in Boston, MA just off Atlantic Avenue. Rail service at this location was provided by the Union

Eric; I look forward to seeing what you do next! I like pencils, too, and they do work great for weathering boards and decks. A technique I got very fond of in some of my more recent steel box car, go

Eric; Nice job on the PRR X23! Very convincing weathering! Thanks for contributing! Elden Gatwood

Folks, I think recently someone posted a link to two Wilson's steel 4 foot reefers with ice bunkers, showing clearly the roof hatches. I believe the car numbers were in the 2000 series. I can't find t

To add: I read a group of letters between PRR and a customer where PRR billed the customer for clean-out of a gondola where PRR got back loaded with trash and most damaging, oil drums full of waste oi