Re: Freight car Distribution
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Dan, please consult the STMFC archives. There are literally
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HUNDREDS of posts on freight car distribution, many of them meticulously researched by Tim Gilbert and many others. Also Larry Ostresh has posted dozens of lists of fleet comparisons for single and double sheathed box cars, which immediately becomes an important issue if you want to represent not only a railroad, but that PARTICULAR railroad's mix of box cars. If you want to do a straight line percentage apportionment of box cars, then an ORER is exactly the right (blunt) tool. But then your layout may resemble an ORER and not a prototype. Tim O'Connor
Would the ORER be considered a primary source? If so, an eager volunteer could reference the tallies of all freight cars (or by type) for each railroad and compute the percentage of total (railroad-owned/leased) freight cars. My oldest ORER is January 1958, so maybe that's not old enough for what folks need?
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