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: Pierre Barbe, Richard Brennan, Jim Eager, Anthony Meadow, David North, Rob Shaw, Jim Stanitz, and many members of the railcarhistory email group.

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Freight Cars Journal #9
April 30, 1985 ⦁ Volume 2 ⦁ Number 5

Railbox Roster
Trailer Train’s New RTTX Piggyback Conversions

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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

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Freight Cars Journal #7
February 1985 ⦁ Volume 2 ⦁ Number 3

Missouri Pacific's Quasi-Articulated Airslide Covered Hoppers
1985 Forty-Foot Boxcar Survey

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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

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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

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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

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Freight Cars Journal #3
March 1984 ⦁ Volume 1 ⦁ Number 3

Fmc 30-Ton Hi-Cube Prototype Boxcar
Bm-Dh-Mec Freight Car Roster
Freight Car Classification In Brazil
New Haven Steel Underframe Wooden Boxcars

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Freight Cars Journal #2
December 9, 1983

19th Century P&R B-wheel Coal Cars
Modern Sulfuric Acid Tank Cars

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Freight Cars Journal #1
August 30, 1983

FMC 5374 Boxcars
Railgon Roster
Car Builder's Logos

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