Earl Tuson's Freight Car Pages

Modeling Pre-Depression Era Freight Cars in S Scale

New England Railroads
B&M 34' WUF gondolas
B&M 29000 series Pulpwood Racks
Freight cars lettered for Mystic Transportation Co.
Maine Central Eastman Heater cars
Maine Central: Dairy, Heater, Produce, and Refrigerator Cars, 1901-1938 - NEW!
New York, New Haven, & Hartford 38' Hopper Bottom Coal Gondolas

New England Commerce: Bibliography and Resources

New England Private Car Lines
Brown Company: Chlorine and Caustic Soda Tank Car Fleet
Massachusetts Petroleum Refiners: Beacon Oil Co. (BCNX to UTLX), Massachusetts Oil Refining Co. (to CSRX,) and New England Oil Refining Co. (NEOX to SEPX) - Stalled...

The End of an Era, Whale Oil Purveyors: W.A. Robinson (WARX) and Frank L. Young Co. (FLYX)

Alcohol Companies:
Everett Distilling Co. (EDCX)
New England Alcohol Co. (NEAX)
Purity Distilling Co. (PDX)

Asphalt Companies:
American Tar Co. (ATCX)
Independent Coal Tar Co. (ICTX)
Alden Speare's Sons Co. (unk)
Warren Brothers Co. (WBCX)

Chemical Companies:
American Acid Co (UAAX)
Avery Chemical Co. (AVCX)
Samuel Cabot Inc. (SCIX)
Cochrane Chemical Co. (CCCX)
Merrimac Chemical Co. (MCHX)
Naugatuck Chemical Co. (NCX)
New England Chemical Industries (NEWX), Consolidated Chemical Industries, New England Division (CCIX)
Paper Makers Chemical Corp, its constituents and associates (AWPX, ESCX, GALX, PMCX, SSTX, VCTX)

Oil Dealers:
E.A. Buck Co., Inc (EABX)
Jenney Manufacturing Co. (JMX)

Refrigerator Car Lines:
Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. (DAMX) C.B. Kendall Co. (CBKX)
Narragansett Brewing Co. (NBRX)
Safety Refrigeration Co. (SRIX)

American Steel & Wire Co. (ASWX)
Atlantic Chemical Co., Burlington Rendering Co., and Consolidated Rendering Co. (CDRX)
James S. Bent (JSBX)
F.W. Bird & Son (FWBX)
Brown Co: Box cars and Wood racks
Eastern Manufacturing Co. (EMCX)
T.A.D. Jones & Co. (TADX)
Kistler Leather Co. (KLX)
A.C. Lawrence Leather Co. (ACKX)
Marden-Orth & Hastings Corp. (MOHX), Marden-Wild Corp. (MWKX)
Milton Ice Co. (MIX)
New England Fuel & Transportstion: New England Coal & Coke Co (NECX), New England Gas & Coke) (NEGX)
New Haven Gas Light Co. (NHGX)
O'Bannon Corp(OCOX)
C. A. Spencer & Son Co. (SPEX)

Refrigerator Car Companies based outside New England
Fairmont Creamery Company's Fairmont Dairy Line
Northern Refrigerator Car Company/Northern Refrigerator Line 1922-38
Chicago, New York, & Boston Refrigerator Company's New York Despatch

Online Prototype Resources

H.H. Copeland & Son: Freight Traffic data - NEW!

Online Freight Car Photos of the Teens and Twenties

Car Builder's Dictionaries from Cornell University Library, University of Michigan Library, ...
1st Edition, 1879
2nd Edition, reprinted, 1888
3rd Edition, 1895
4th Edition, 1903 - Photos start on .pdf- page 164, drawings on .pdf- page 201.
5th Edition, 1906 - Photos start on .pdf- page 180, drawings on .pdf- page 231.
6th Edition, 1909 - Photos start on .pdf- page 204, drawings on .pdf- page 271.
7th Edition, 1912 - Photos start on page 201 (.pdf- page 191,) drawings on page 274 (.pdf- page 264.)
8th Edition, 1916 - Photos start on page 201 (.pdf- page 221,) drawings on page 273 (.pdf- page 294.)
9th Edition, 1919 - Photos and drawings start on page 250 (.pdf- page 270.)
10th Edition, 1922 - Photos and drawings start on page 103.
11th Edition, 1925 - Photos and drawings start on page 103 (.pdf- page 107.)
12th Edition, 1928, still under copyright.
13th Edition, 1931, still under copyright.

Posted 4/5/16.  Updated 3/30/25.  Maintained by Earl Tuson