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Looks like either the first series of Challengers or a 2-8-8-0. ?I’ll go with the CSA1

Bob, Is that a Big Boy heading it up,, or a Challenger?? The photo comes in too small for me to tell. I suppose you saw the clip of the Big Boy running through the snow in Kansas.? A friend sent me

Crate Label Society Meeting (Dec. 14 - Riverside , CA ) Information from Tom Spellman... The Citrus Label Society will meet on: When: Saturday, December 14, 2019 Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Where:

A great photo thank you for sharing Paul Doggett. England ???????

He was one of the great photojournalists of the Life Magazine era. Bill Jolitz

Photo: Reefer Train A UP steam locomotive with a block of reefers in Wyoming. Note the snow fence to the right of the photo. This photo was taken by Elliott Erwitt, who is known for his artistic

Thanx for all the info. I will study your Patch website. hope things are progressing downstairs. Lou

That's page 41, not 4, of the 2012 Great Model Railroads. There's also information on my virtually stagnant Patch website at: http://www.patchrailroad.net/The_Patch/Patch_Operations.html Keith Jordan

Route Cards Tony Thompson noted that on PFE reefers a common location for route cards was near the door. Another common location was near the bolster at the bottom of the car side on wood-sheathed

Bob and Others, Thanks for posting these. I use car tags for car switching/forwarding on my Patch layout, set in Los Angeles. I was able to locate several prototype Santa Fe tags, along with zone

Refrigerator Car Tags Below is a collection of refrigerator car tags from the collection of Ralph Heiss. Based on the known size of the smaller numbered route cards the larger cards are not as large

Weathering A Reefer A post from Ralph Heiss' Lehigh Valley Harbor Terminal Railway on weathering a reefer with PanPastel medial and an artist's pencil:

Photo: SFRD 35361 Photo of a Class Rr-28 reefer with straight line map:

I misspoke by equating demurrage with per diem. While they both represent charges by a railroad for others use of their equipment, they specifically differ as follows: Demurrage - A penalty charge

These numbers are even more impressive when one factors in the seasonal nature of PFE business. Are these round trips? It’s been stated that PFE was more concerned with having an empty car returned

Bob, That’s very interesting information. There certainly must have been a lot of cars sitting in yards waiting for a call to duty and I suppose still are. There are strings of them sitting on

Reefer Trip Factoid A Tony Thompson observation... "...most freight cars averaged less than nine trips PER YEAR...PFE was proud that its cars averaged between ten and eleven round trips per year,

Simulating Caboose & Reefer Operations On Cajon Pass In 2015 I had the pleasure of visiting Jon Harrison's HO scale railroad in Portland , OR , during the NMRA National Convention. Jon models the

Intermountain HO Scale SFRD Reefer Kits A few days ago, Intermountain confirmed production of an undecorated SFRD reefer kit. The kit number is 41199 and the price will $19.95, The car has a steel

Still Belong To Other Yahoo Railroad Groups? Our transition to Groups.io from Yahoo is complete and I welcome our new members. As far as I can determine, all the Yahoo message archives, files and