Re: Freight car Distribution...help with ICC report
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Michael Aufderheide
Tim,
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The Monon logs do distinguish between XM ('B') and XA, XAP, XAR, XMR ('A') cars, though not all correctly. I haven't looked into it but I wonder if the car had double doors it was labled an 'A' weather the auxilliary door was active or not. The cars had a wide variety of loads. As a sample here are some from fall 1948: ACL 52011 SALT ATSF 8560 CABTS BO 297474 STONE CNW 111830 MDSE ERIE 96962 CABTS GTW 578543 AUTOS IC 38113 MDSE IC 39464 REFGRS LV 6401 SPRINGS MILW 593256 MDSE NYC 147846 MCHY PM 91342 REFGRS PRR 63305 A PARTS PRR 65370 A PARTS PRR 66469 A PARTS PRR 67127 A PARTS SAL 11309 PHOS SAL 22755 SPRINGS SLSF 154238 MDSE SLSF 154055 STEEL SOU 272964 AUTOS SOU 340282 LBR SOU 375252 LIME SOU 148379 MDSE SOU 272617 REFGRS UP 455826 AUTOS WAB 45562 A PARTS WAB 45718 A PARTS WAB 17044 A PARTS WAB 47232 MDSE Regards, Mike Aufderheide
--- On Thu, 4/15/10, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
From: Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> Subject: [STMFC] Re: Freight car Distribution...help with ICC report To: STMFC@... Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7:58 AM Larry Ostresh wrote:TonyFWIW there are 742,546 U.S. box, auto and ventilated cars in theThis almost exactly matches Jeff's 620,000 cars for 1945. Yes, it is about the same -- However, it begs the question of whether various conductors' reports distinguish between XM's and XA's for the purpose of the various ownership tallies. Especially since many XA's were (as you have noted Tony) used for lumber or other cargos during peacetime, and during the war (1945) we can pretty safely assume there was relatively little automobile production! Tim O'Connor
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