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Re: Accurail O.B. boxcars as USRA design cars

david ellzey
 

That's just from my vague recollections of the 1950's, not seeing any Canadian rail cars here in Louisiana.
Dave
 

From: "Eric Hansmann eric@... [STMFC]"
To: STMFC@...
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [STMFC] Accurail O.B. boxcars as USRA design cars

 
I recommend you get a copy of the ORER for the year of your focus or the year before. Compile some fleet numbers and check what older cars are still running. The 1953 K brake ban sent lots of freight cars to scrap. 

And I would not ignore the Canadian box car fleet. Newsprint from Canada was used all over. 

Eric Hansmann
El Paso, TX



On Oct 26, 2015, at 8:15 PM, david ellzey davidellzey1@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:

Let me clarify that last email, I meant slim chance of Canadian cars down here on the T&NO.
Dave
 
From: "Tony Thompson tony@... [STMFC]" <STMFC@...>
To: STMFC@...
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [STMFC] Accurail O.B. boxcars as USRA design cars

 
Modeling the T&NO, I would have to shy away from Canadian prototypes, which  be the closest match.

 T&NO had nothing like this.

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