Photo: UTLX 32391 (1946) A photo from the SMU Libraries: https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/ryr/id/2744/rec/24 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Built 1920. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Over the weekend, I posted a description to my blog of PFE ice service practices, including the borrowing (occasionally) of ice from Santa Fe's SFRD. I included a photo of a model Santa Fe ice car, bu

Photo: Heinz Vinegar Car (Undated) A photo from the Historic Pittsburgh website: https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3AMSP57.B059.F08.I01/viewer Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Bob

Video: Erie Railroad Carfloat Operations in Chicago, 1920 https://youtu.be/eHCJPMATXrk Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I have about 6 months of interchange and local industrial switching between Maybrook-Poughkeepsie and Hopewell Jct. It identifies customer, car type, commodity, reporting marks, car number, originatin

Photo: PCC&StLR Boxcar 2607 (1904) A photo from the Historic Pittsburgh website: https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A8223.174.RR/viewer Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Bob Chapar

Could P&P be the ATSF subsidiary Santa Fe Prescott & Phoenix? They had boxcars numbered 501-1024 in 1917. Paul Krueger Seattle, WA

Photo: Petaluma & Santa Rosa Boxcar 200 (Circa 1940) A photo from the Sonoma County Library: https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/Documents/Detail/petaluma-and-santa-rosa-r.r.-co.-boxcar-at-trombetta-dis

Photo: Wabash Livestock Cars 16429 & 16430 (1933) Courtesy of Peter Ness, a photo from the Decatur Herald & Review: https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/herald-review.com/content/tncms/assets/

Andy; I think your PMcK&Y gon is like these brothers. Note the odd replacement end P&LE put on at least some of these guys, and the replacement handbrake. The diagonal load is just icing on the cake.

https://www.micromark.com/Xuron-Micro-Bending-Plier Has anyone tried these pliers from Xuron? They look like they'd be especially useful for bending cut levers. Paolo Roffo

Gents, Since one sheet of an AT&SF train list was so interesting, I'll share a copy of a book from a Green Bay & Western Railroad conductor in January-February 1945 that is in my collection. I tried t

All- I was just browsing on Facebook and found out that David Leider’s new book is available. http://boctbook.dhke.com/?fbclid=IwAR0Mfq20_JKSPeXHiJhridL-sEPakL8K3W9CXaJL3bAO0euRV81YfRLggzw Based on hi

Photo: Tanks Cars At Dow Chemical (Circa 1950s) A photo from the Science History Institute: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/n296wz501 Click and scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Good close u

Photo: T&P Livestock Car 22098 (Circa 1946) Photo from the SMU Libraries: https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/ryr/id/2745/rec/306 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Built 1929. Nice,

Jim, all; 22804 is an almost new 8,000 gallon ICC 103-W, so not pressure tanks, or acid tanks in the 1% dome format, but AC&F-built for lease to whoever, in this case, Dow Chemical. 22774 is slightly

Photo: Tanks Cars At Dow Chemical (1952) A photo from the Science History Institute: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/8p58pd41f Click and scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Good close up view

On Oct 11, 2020, at 22:09, Kenneth Montero <va661midlo@...> wrote: > From Piedmont & Western Railroad Club website - Railroad reporting marks: First class source, that. > CGW = Chicago Great Western >

Bill; Those little blue pellets are likely the little plastic spheres used in Styrofoam manufacture. One summer job I made Styrofoam billets from pellets made by 3M. They did indeed get shipped in cov

I don’t recall seeing prototype or model photos of loaded or empty flat cars with the brake staffs in the retracted position during operation. What was prototype practice for retractable hand brakes?