This is the office building for a brick selling place in Carrollton, Tx. Just a siding with some boxcars and some bricks on the ground. Cool modelling idea!
This is a 'Shark' ballast plough brake van. These are becoming rarer due to the new 'autoballaster' hoppers which don't need the ballast to be ploughed into place.
Before anyone asks, the big 'ships wheel' in the open end sections are to raise and lower the plough down to rail level.
This is my first post on this forum--I'm usually on the N-scale forum, or the Inspection Pit. I caught this last Saturday in Flagstaff: ZOOM for full size