Freight Cars Journal

ISSN 0742-9355

Freight Cars Journal explored the history, development, and technical evolution of freight cars. Published by David Casdorph, with contributions by many others, Freight Cars Journal provided data, technical drawings, and photographs for a wide range of freight cars.

Thank you to David Casdorph for allowing us to make this archive available and to the following individuals for their time and effort scanning various issues of Freight Cars Journal: David North, Jim Stanitz, Richard Brennan, Rob Shaw, Pierre Barbe, and many members of the railcarhistory email group.

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	Freight Cars Journal #1 August 30, 1983 FMC 5374 Boxcars Railgon Roster Car Builder's Logos
	Freight Cars Journal #2 December 9, 1983 19th Century P&R B-wheel Coal Cars Modern Sulfuric Acid Tank Cars
	Freight Cars Journal #3 We currently do not have a copy of this issue. Please contact us if you have one and are willing to scan it or allow us to scan it.
	Freight Cars Journal #4 June 1984 ⦁ Volume 1 ⦁ Number 4 GN 40ft Boxcars FMC-P Production List 1 New and Rebuilt 40' Boxcars of the 70's and 80's The ACF CH-29
	Freight Cars Journal #5 October 1984 ⦁ Volume 2 ⦁ Number 1 Freight Car Roster of the D&RGW The GATC Dry-Flo 3500 Philadelphia & Reading 4-wheel Coal Cars FMC-P Production List 2
	Freight Cars Journal #6 December 1984 ⦁ Volume 2 ⦁ Number 2 Western Pacific Series 3011-3050 Fifty-Ton Boxcars FMC-P Production List 3 Reading Series 20400-20549 Gondola Drawing Freight Car Roster of the Bay State Milling Company
	Freight Cars Journal #7 February 1985 ⦁ Volume 2 ⦁ Number 3 Missouri Pacific's Quasi-Articulated Airslide Covered Hoppers 1985 Forty-Foot Boxcar Survey
	Freight Cars Journal #8 March 1985 ⦁ Volume 2 ⦁ Number 4 Introduction of the 65-Foot Gondola Annotated Checklist of North American Freight Car Builders 1850-1985 R.A. Boyd TrailerTrain Corrugated Containers Review FMC-P Production List 5
	Freight Cars Journal #9 April 30, 1985 ⦁ Volume 2 ⦁ Number 5 Railbox Roster Trailer Train’s New RTTX Piggyback Conversions
	Freight Cars Journal #10 July 1, 1985 ⦁ Volume 2 ⦁ Number 6 Modeling the Southern Pacific Modern Forty-Foot 100 Ton Boxcar Reading Co. Eight-Wheel Caboose Utility Fuels, Inc. All Time Freight Car Roster 1978-1985 FMC-P Production List 6 Souther Pacific Train Consists: Part I The CZLAT Trains
	Freight Cars Journal #11 August 15, 1985 ⦁ Volume 2 ⦁ Number 7 America's Intermodal Freight Cars of the '80s
	Freight Cars Journal #12 October 15, 1985 ⦁ Volume 3 ⦁ Number 1 Lehigh & New England Freight Car Roster
	Freight Cars Journal #13-14 January 1986 ⦁ Volume 3 ⦁ Number 2 Fishbelly Hopper Cars Modeling Monon Box Car No 1 Stack Car Update
	Freight Cars Journal #15-16 April 15, 1986 ⦁ Volume 3 ⦁ Number 3 Texas & Pacific 50-ton Boxcars Modeling Two Modern Southern 40-foot Boxcars in H.O. Scale 89'4" Piggyback Flats from Athearn Parts The New York Central's 1916 All-Steel Box Car Project
	Freight Cars Journal #17-18 We currently do not have a copy of this issue. Please contact us if you have one and are willing to scan it or allow us to scan it.
	Freight Cars Journal #19-20 October 30, 1986 ⦁ Volume 3 ⦁ Number 5 New York Central’s All Steel House Car of 1912 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Ice Car Series Sherman, Shreveport & Southern Freight Cars General American's 70-ton Refrigerator Car of 1937
	Freight Cars Journal #21 March 15, 1987 ⦁ Volume 4 ⦁ Number 1 Reading Co. Freight Equipment Numerical List 1885-1901
	Freight Cars Journal #22 May 30, 1987 ⦁ Volume 4 ⦁ Number 2 Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Freight Car Roster c.1985 Southern Pacific Train Consists Part 2: SECIY Trains White Pass & Yukon Freight Car Roster LO: The Covered Hopper Column:1
	Freight Cars Journal #23 July 31, 1987 ⦁ Volume 4 ⦁ Number 3 Southern Pacific's 1987 Open Hopper Fleet Denver and Rio Grande Western Freight Car Roster of the 70's and 80's
	Freight Cars Journal #24 November 30, 1987 ⦁ Volume 4 ⦁ Number 4 Charleston and Western Carolina's 36 root Boxcar #1939 The H.O. Scale Auto Parts Boxcars of Mark Ala LO: The Covered Hopper Column #2
	Freight Cars Journal #25 January 29, 1988 ⦁ Volume 5 ⦁ Number 1 Missouri Pacific Freight Car Roster
	Freight Cars Journal #26 April 30, 1988 ⦁ Volume 5 ⦁ Number 2 Northern Pacific Freight Car Roster Circa 1940 Wisconsin Central's New Paint Scheme Railbox Renumberings 1983-1987
	Freight Cars Journal #27 July 27, 1988 ⦁ Volume 5 ⦁ Number 3 Santa Fe 50-Foot 100-Ton Double-Door Plate F Boxcars Of The 1970'S Mckean H.O. Scale 50-Foot Acf Exterior-Post Boxcar Missouri Pacific Piggyback Trailers: A Roster Of Major Series 1986 Big Three Industries Inc. Tank Car Photo Roster
	Freight Cars Journal #28 October 15, 1988 ⦁ Volume 5 ⦁ Number 4 A Journey to the Land of Phosphate General American Transportation Refrigerator Car Assignments LO: The Covered Hopper Column #3
	Freight Cars Journal #29 January 30, 1989 ⦁ Volume 6 ⦁ Number 1 Reading Freight Equipment Numerical List 1901-1938 Union Pacific Express Boxcars B-50-25 Chicago North Western and the Ralston Purina RBLs El Reno’s Boxes
	Freight Cars Journal #30 April 30, 1989 ⦁ Volume 6 ⦁ Number 2 UTLX #75966 Pulp and Chip Equipment in the Southeastern Paper Industry Seaboard System Woodchip Hopper Car Fleet Norfolk Southern Standard Color Scheme 1988 Trailer Train’s F89G and the Sierra Car and Foundry HO Scale Model On Boxcars Rebuilt with Two Different Ends
	Freight Cars Journal #31 July 28, 1989 ⦁ Volume 6 ⦁ Number 3 Milwaukee Road Flexi-Vans Marks I & Ii Late Steam Era L.P.G. Tank Cars The BPLNTH Numbers
	Freight Cars Journal #32 October 30, 1989 ⦁ Volume 6 ⦁ Number 4 Southern Pacific/Cotton Belt Covered Hoppers Kansas City Southern 700002-700053 Heavy-Duty Flat Car Nine Two-Bay Covered Hoppers From The Forties And Fifties
	Freight Cars Journal #33 March 30, 1990 ⦁ Volume 7 ⦁ Number 1 Western Pacific Freight Cars At Merger
	Freight Cars Journal #34 April 30, 1990 ⦁ Volume 7 ⦁ Number 2 Gunderson’s 1989 Box Car Conversions for the WCTU Railway Reading Covered Hopper Class LOc A History Of Pneumatic Brake Equipment For Railroad Cars 1869-1953
	Freight Cars Journal #35 August 15, 1990 ⦁ Volume 7 ⦁ Number 3 Norfolk Southern’ 1989-1990 Coal Hopper Rebody And New Acquisitions Program ATSF 90000 CSX 100-139: Central Transportation's 1931 Built Covered Hopper Series A Pictorial Review Of NACC/GERSCO Freight Equipment,
	Freight Cars Journal #36 December 31, 1990 ⦁ Volume 7 ⦁ Number 4 Illinois Central Freight Car Pictorial
	Freight Cars Journal #37 February 1991 ⦁ Volume 8 ⦁ Number 1 Cp Rail Freight Car Pictorial
	Freight Cars Journal #38 April 1991 ⦁ Volume 8 ⦁ Number 2 The Midwestern Grain Cars: Part 1 – The Garvey Elevator Company, Inc. (GELX) ‘Blue Island’ Reefers CHTT 200034 Fluidized-Gravity Covered Hopper Conversion
	Freight Cars Journal #39 June 1991 ⦁ Volume 8 ⦁ Number 3 Sk. Bolton, Jr. Freight Car Photographs ‘Blue Island’ Reefers 2 Maryland And Pennsylvania Freight Car Roster The Garvey Grain Division Of Garvey International (GGIX)
	Freight Cars Journal #40 August 1991 ⦁ Volume 8 ⦁ Number 4 A Checklist Of Covered Hoppers Commonly Found In Plastics Transport Service Santa Fe Freight Car Paint Schemes And Lettering Of The 1980s ‘Blue Island’ Reefers 3 B & O 475400-475409 The Ohio Valley Coal Shuttle NW 164000-164999
	Freight Cars Journal #41 January 1992 ⦁ Volume 9 ⦁ Number 1 Evans 4780 Cu. Ft. Covered Hoppers
	Freight Cars Journal #42 February 1992 ⦁ Volume 9 ⦁ Number 2 ACF’s New 6111 Covered Hopper The ATSF FT-60 Heavy-Duty Flat Car
	Freight Cars Journal #43 March 1992 ⦁ Volume 9 ⦁ Number 3
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	Freight Cars Journal #50 January 1993 ⦁ Volume 10 ⦁ Number 1
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	Freight Cars Journal #52 March 1993 ⦁ Volume 10 ⦁ Number 3
	Freight Cars Journal #53 April 1993 ⦁ Volume 10 ⦁ Number 4
	Freight Cars Journal #54 We currently do not have a copy of this issue. Please contact us if you have one and are willing to scan it or allow us to scan it.
	Freight Cars Journal #55 June 1993 ⦁ Volume 10 ⦁ Number 6
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	Freight Cars Journal #57 We currently do not have a copy of this issue. Please contact us if you have one and are willing to scan it or allow us to scan it.
	Freight Cars Journal #58 September 1993 ⦁ Volume 10 ⦁ Number 9
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