Hi Tim, I am working on about 20 to 25 home road cars and about 10 or so connecting road cars. I do not have enough connecting road cars. I can afford this because I scratch build and have tons of

Joel, 23% sounds close to the perfect figure for most Class 1 railroads. During good economic times the percentage is less, and during bad times it can be much higher.

An alternative explantation is that these doors may have been to allow the car to be used as an exhibit. That way you could see how the car looked on the inside with the doors closed and there was

You have mentioned Northern Specific Models in a couple of emails. Who are they and how do I get in touch with them? Google does not bring up a website. I like the photos of the Wabash car and

Hi Bruce, Thank you for the information. I checked and I only have 23% of my box cars are home road. As I had suspected, I need to increase my home road box cars substantially. I model in the

Bruce Smith wrote: I agree with Bruce. In the conductor time book data I have for SP's Coast Line during 1948-1952, home road box cars were 29 percent, and T&NO box cars (closely allied, of

Thanks Guy, (and all), That pretty well answers the question. I was guessing that it was between 6 and 12 months. This info answers the question for our entire STMFC time period. Paul Hillman

Joel, It is VERY important to differentiate between "home road cars" on the home road and home road boxcars... On the PRR the former was around 50% for most of the modern steam era and while we do

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All, I just received some kits from Sunshine today. I ordered kit 100.4 and was pleasantly surprised to see that the high bumps of resin on the right side panels have been removed. I bought this

Other pics of the same car exist with a different billboard. Almost reminds me of a Lionel "Aquarium" car. I wonder if that panel was painted to go along with whatever railroad the car was

Hi All, I am curious what the percentage of home road cars were on the lines of the eastern coal carriers such as the LV, DL&W, Erie, NYO&W, CNJ, and RDG. Does anyone have any idea? These coal

I suspect this list tells more about the state of western road box cars at the time to be available for this "high" class of freight service. The western road equipment was taking a very heavy

Did you notice that the http://www.atsfrr.com/resources/Williams/TimkenBoxCar88.jpg had a sizeable Santa Fe logo on it. I wonder what the connection between that box which does not have ATSF ID and

As I recall it was Russell, I can dig out my picture and post it later. I could probably get a map location as well. Todd Horton To: STMFC@... Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:17

What kind of price?? Dennis ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: [STMFC] Re: Something new and very

Hello all, From what I've seen from western RRs in that era, 20% is more or less normal. As an example, Union Pacific train lists from Wyoming (1956) that I reviewed showed that 18.6% of all plain

Dennis, The most recent article I know of on these cars is Richard Hendrickson's that appeared in issue #2 or #3 of Model Railroad Hobbyist. Marty McGuirk I find it a little odd

Rich, I will correct you because you are wrong. You said my 70-ton A-3 is a PRR class 2E-F2 with side frame pattern # V7808. The 2E-F2 and that side frame pattern is a Crown truck, similar to an

I am even more surprised in the relatively small portion of "home road" cars. Approx. 1/5 of all cars processed. Arved G. Grass Fleming Island, Florida ... ...