Rock Island Flat car ca. 1931

[doctorwayne]

Thanks for that link, Bear.  There's lots of interesting information there, and even though it's directed at '20s-era modellers, I find that a lot of those same cars are also appropriate for my late '30s-era layout.  I do, however, take some liberties by including some "too modern" cars on my layout, specifically covered hoppers - there were definitely some of them around, but many were modified boxcars, rebuilt with roof hatches and underbody discharge gates.  I scratchbuilt four of them as modified Dominion-Fowler cars, but also have over a dozen all-steel covered hoppers, built from a variety of kits, the majority of them originally undecorated.

I was tempted to reply to the link, but decided that it was better to simply enjoy the information offered, rather than make it look like I considered my chosen-era more interesting....which is definitely not the case.

Wayne