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After some frustration and persistence, the forum is repaired and functional with the exception of our custom forum template (to make it look like the rest of the site). I will be working on restoring that component this week.

All of this research inspired collaboration with Randy to devise these illustrations. This should help set model railroaders and others researching these cars in the right direction: CP-Flat-95-1866.png UP-Flat-369-ca-1868.png LASP-Flat-23-1873.png LAI-Flat-44-1873.png CP-Flat-1181-1878.png VT-flat-...

Here are some additional photographs for reference:

Diagram for 25' boxcars. Sacramento Shops, 1894.

Continuing in the series of early CPRR freight equipment, a look at boxcars. There appear to be two common types of car before 1876, a 25' long car and a 28' long car. Of the two, the 25' long cars were the most numerous type in service on the railroad until the mid 1870s, with 681 of them on the ro...

Additional Central Pacific cars:

Early Central Pacific and Southern Pacific flatcars utilized a standard design: a 30' captured end sill car. Cars of this type were also used by the Union Pacific Railroad.* The CP also built cars of this type for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. Similar cars were also used on the Canadian Pacific...

I have some roster info on the Combination cars from Kyle Wyatt: CP 1542-4500 (even) Combination Boxcar Built: SP Sacramento Shops (most) Capacity: 15TON Inside Length: 27'-7" photo 1624 Central Pacific & Southern Pacific RRs p.583 (available online) photo 1624 The American Railroad Freight Car p.71...

I have been working on assembling a timeline for early CP cabooses to go along with our the other early car discussions. Here are the first three classes, listed by the date they were constructed: 1866 (?) - Boxcar Conversions. These are the standard boxcar converted to a caboose with the addition o...

A while back I searched high and low for photos showing a single CP combination boxcar (or any CP car) in ochre. Occasionally a dirty car, or one catching the light shows up that almost seems it is light colored. The clue is the lettering, every CP freight car will have a light color (white lead) le...