Photo: Loading Oranges A photo from the Hagley Digital Archives: https://digital.hagley.org/PC20110419_319 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. This is a photo of (supposedly) orange crates being loaded

I was reading the two part series on the X29B from the 11-12/92 issues of Mainline Modeler. There are a couple of discrepancies between the two articles. In the first Greg Martin went the extra mile t

Hi List Members, A NYC 40ft steel box and NH 168569 ds box in Auburn ME ca 1930 https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/79697/zoom Enjoy! Claus Schlund

To assist in the tracking the development of a specific freight car fleet, would anyone be able to provide a scanned copy of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway entry from the April 1947 ORER, please? I

Interesting photo of two NYC GPs on an elevated structure somewhere (St. Louis?) with train consist including a green PFE reefer and numerous NYC baggage cars. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q7sAAOSw7

Mel, HUH? "Aluminum foil"??? Are you talking about the metal roof? If so, it is neither aluminum, nor foil. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Hi List Members, Image of CN 3903 36ft ss box Portland ME 1924 https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/71971/zoom I'm wondering about the vehicle - STANDARD OIL CO OF NY - in Portland ME? That is a long

Hi List Members, PFE and FGEX reefers in Oakfield Junction yard ME 1930 https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/10455/zoom Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, B&M 40ft ss Pratt truss box Princeton ME in 1933 https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/81182/zoom Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, The lettering on this tank car is a bit hard to make out, but the word TARMAC in stylized fashion is discernable. I will note that cars belongs to The Barrett Company with reporting m

Hi List Members, Image of MEC ss 40ft box at Portland ME 1924 https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/53702/zoom Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, A B&M drop-bottom gon (on the left, partial view only) and then a MEC gon in 1924 Portland ME https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/46560/zoom Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Tony, Are you saying that that is a “Stock” PFE Express Reefer? I have to take your word as I wouldn’t know one if it walked up and bit me. Paul Catapano Winchester, VA.

Here is another 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 Ini

I have completed the build of a Dennis Storzek Modelmaker, kit 1920 , Soo Line “sawtooth” box car I numbered 39344. If you are interested the build of this resin car flat car kit, photos and writeup o

Photos: Miscellaneous Freight Cars Fair quality photos from the PhillyHistory website: https://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Detail.aspx?assetId=5328 Circa 1900. https://www.phillyhistory.org/Pho

I see from published photos, and kit notes, that IC two-bay hoppers were painted red in the fifties era. I have a P2K two-bay hopper model, originally a war emergency car and rebuilt with steel sides,

Photo: Tremont & Gulf Ry. Boxcar 668 (1957) A photo from the Texas Transportation Archive: https://www.ttarchive.com/dtphoto.aspx?id=N8VA14M7VBR Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I previously posted the link to my completed build of a Dennis Storzek Modelmaker, kit 1920 , Soo Line “sawtooth” box car I numbered 39334. I was asked if I would update the blog to include a photo of

Photo: Tremont & Gulf Ry. Boxcar 672 (1950) A photo from the Texas Transportation Archive: https://www.ttarchive.com/dtphoto.aspx?id=P09A149YDXR Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA