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
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 - NEW!
The Minors picked up by the Majors: Beacon Oil Co. (BCNX) and New England Oil Refining Co. (NEOX to SEPX) - Coming Soon!

Paper Makers Chemical Corp, its constituents and associates (AWPX, ESCX, GALX, PMCX, SSTX, VCTX)
The End of an Era, Whale Oil Purveyors: W.A. Robinson (WARX) and Frank L. Young Co. (FLYX)

American Acid Co (UAAX)
American Steel & Wire Co. (ASWX)
American Tar Co. (ATCX)
Atlantic Chemical Co., Burlington Rendering Co., and Consolidated Rendering Co. (CDRX)
Avery Chemical Co. (AVCX)
James S. Bent (JSBX)
F.W. Bird & Son (FWBX)
Brown Co: Box cars and Wood racks
E.A. Buck Co., Inc (EABX)
Samuel Cabot Inc. (SCIX)
Cities Service Refining (CSRX)
Cochrane Chemical Co. (CCCX)
Eastern Manufacturing Co. (EMCX)
Everett Distilling Co. (EDCX)
Independent Coal Tar Company
Jenney Manufacturing Co. (JMX)
T.A.D. Jones & Co. (TADX)
C.B. Kendall Co. (CBKX)
Kistler Leather Co. (KLX)
A.C. Lawrence Leather Co. (ACKX)
Marden-Wild Corp. (MWKX)
Merrimac Chemical Co. (MCHX)
Naugatuck Chemical Co. (NCX)
New England
New Haven Gas Light Co. (NHGX)
O'Bannon (OCOX) Safety Refrigeration Co. (SRIX)
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

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 271.)
10th Edition, 1922, not yet scanned.
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 4/13/24.  Maintained by Earl Tuson