Back around 1937 Frisco rebuilt a heavyweight passenger car with welded side construction. The car was mentioned in one of the "Classic Trains"...
Does anyone know what sort of passenger service was offered, if any, between Oklahoma City and Kansas City in the early 1940s? I am endeavoring...
Sides for the Texas Special are available in N-scale from M&R Models. Unfortunately he doesn't offer anything like this in HO.
Re: Passenger car colors/ opinionso While I am sure that there are more folks more knowledgeable than I who can fill in some of the blanks here I...
Was wondering if anyone knows the revenue number for this coach that was shot by Fred Springer some years back? TIA...
:( I am sorry to be able to say that the "Oklahoma City" SLSF 1551 is no more. A shot of where the car sat along with some scrap parts have been...
Its worth noting that some ACF Builder's photos are posted to George Elwood's Fallen Flags website... http://rr-fallenflags.org/acfx/acf-h.html
Anyone care to take a shot as to this car's former number?
Below are summaries of two MAIN consists that were involved with derailments or collisions in 1944, the first on the L&N and the second on the...
Thanks so very much for the help!!! I do appreciate it!!!
Does anyone know which 12 Section - 1 Drawing Room sleeper became SLSF Instruction car #54? Did this car later receive a MofW number? Trying to...
Like so many museums the money and man power has likely not been there resulting in neglect of significant pieces of equipment and for some it is...
As a priveate car leaser it was used by wealthy individuals and company heads to travel to various places, as deemed necessary by the one leasing...
Originally built as a Pullman leaser private car named Henry Stanley in 1927, it was sold to the Santa Fe in 1944 where it became ATSF 20. Never...
With all the talk about heavyweight cars I am surprised that the Kansas City and Memphis were not mentioned. She was a real treat, being a...
"The KCS Historical Society sells one for $30.00. I am not trying to imply anything here, just trying to be helpful." It is something I will...
Nice to be proven right.,.. even if it did take over 4 years. What I mentioned before still remains true... while you can have a large number of...
The x595 cars (2585, 3585) are 10 Section - 1 Drawing Room - 2 Compartment sleepers while the 4042 and its subclasses are 10 Section - 2 Double...
"you seldom if ever had a mixed consist of equipment that was made up on the spure of the moment..." One of the only times that such would be...
Some cars that originally had wood underframes were rebuilt with steel center sills and end platforms. These cars didn't have the underframe...
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