Freight Car information forum

[Junctionfan]

I have accumulated alot of freight cars with different road names, reporting marks and reporting numbers. I propose we the forum members continue this page for questions and answers about modeling a certain freight car as well for those who are just interested in something about a particular car they saw or heard about.[:)]

[Dayliner]

I'm interested, Junctionfan. I'm trying to build a reasonably convincing freight car fleet and I've found freight car rosters for my prototype road (CP) very useful for this (apart from discovering that I've modelled one car that never existed, and that a few others aren't exactly accurate).

But I haven't been able to find accurate data from some of my off-the-shelf foreign road cars. So I'll start the ball rolling. Does anyone have series range, build date, service date, and any other relevant details (e.g., door width on boxcars) for the following:

SOO 12057 XM
MILW 30371 XM
WFEX 824 RP
PFE 300140 RP
ACFX 89057 T

Thanks for getting this thread started.

[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Dayliner

I'm interested, Junctionfan. I'm trying to build a reasonably convincing freight car fleet and I've found freight car rosters for my prototype road (CP) very useful for this (apart from discovering that I've modelled one car that never existed, and that a few others aren't exactly accurate).

But I haven't been able to find accurate data from some of my off-the-shelf foreign road cars. So I'll start the ball rolling. Does anyone have series range, build date, service date, and any other relevant details (e.g., door width on boxcars) for the following:

SOO 12057 XM
MILW 30371 XM
WFEX 824 RP
PFE 300140 RP
ACFX 89057 T

Thanks for getting this thread started.

Go to this page for information on PFE 300140 http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/reefer/r070-06.htm

The ACFX tank car sounds like a modern 16,000 gallon general service tank car.

[orsonroy]

Actually, the best way to get this sort of information is to go to where the serious freight car historians and modelers hang out: Yahoogroups. There are at least four groups out there: steam-era freight cars, modern-era freight cars, passenger cars, and freight car modeling (mostly modern). The guys who post there are the experts in their fields, and put their money where their mouths are by publishing several books on the topics.

No need to go anywhere else.

[Dayliner]

Thanks for the info, ericsp, and for the tip, orsonroy. I'll check out the Yahoogroups

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy

Actually, the best way to get this sort of information is to go to where the serious freight car historians and modelers hang out: Yahoogroups. There are at least four groups out there: steam-era freight cars, modern-era freight cars, passenger cars, and freight car modeling (mostly modern). The guys who post there are the experts in their fields, and put their money where their mouths are by publishing several books on the topics.

No need to go anywhere else.

Ray,

There's also a recently formed "Baby Boomer Freight Car List" on Yahoo.

[orsonroy]

Baby Boomer? They're targeting the transitional era? Seems to me that this would be covered by joining both preexisting freight car lists...