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Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question

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By Bill Daniels <billinsf@...> · #12378 ·

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By Al & Patricia Westerfield <westerfield@...> · #12377 ·

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By Al & Patricia Westerfield <westerfield@...> · #12375 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question

Shawn, when I get to auto cars in my freight car volumes, I will include the company stuff I have for the late 1950s about assignments, and you will see that indeed some cars were renumbered every

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #12376 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question

Dave Nelson wrote Since OR and WA are relatively small in population, it also suggests that a lot of export autos were going to Portland or Seattle. The "New Car Carriers" book that we discussed a

By Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> · #12374 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question

Shawn, The Ops-Ind list is one place to find out. There was a thread a while back indicating that Jim Eager and Nick Molo were trying to I don't know if Ward's existed back in the timeframe of

By Jeff Aley - GCD PE <jaley@...> · #12373 ·

Reefers For Sale

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By howiselary <glw@...> · #12372 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question.

Larry Smith wrote: If a consortium of roads assigned gons to haul auto parts from a specific plant, what are the chances that the shipping foreman would only load a NYC gon for a plant on the NYC, an

By tim gilbert <tgilbert@...> · #12368 ·

Re: NYC Mystery Boxcar

Ted Schnepf inquires: Cubic capacities were either 2601 or 2550 (steel end cars had 36'5" IL). Photos show these cars with inverse corrugated steel ends, which would date the application of steel ends

By Richard Hendrickson · #12371 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question

Shawn, You wrote: There may be a list of plants in an auto company's 10-K filing to the SEC; I have no idea of whether they would still be available for the years you want from the Government or the

By tim gilbert <tgilbert@...> · #12366 ·

ICC Valuation

Henry Bender recently sent me the facts, as he understands them (having worked in SP's Valuation Dept.) about the origins of the valuation: the 1913 Railroad Valuation Act directed the ICC to oversee

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #12370 ·

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All righty then...boxing gloves anyone?

By Rick <oscaletrains@...> · #12369 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question

Shawn, SP carried Bay area traffic via the Sunset route as well as via the Overland route. The exact distribution of traffic would be very difficult to pinpoint at any particular time, but you

By Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> · #12367 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question.

Shawn I won't say never because that will get you in trouble, but I doubt if the NYC gons would have been used on the SSW. Larry Smith "Beckert, Shawn" wrote:

By Larry Smith · #12364 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question

The only auto assembly plant I'm sure of in NY at the time was GM's plant in Tarrytown, a northern suburb of NY City. This plant was originally Maxwell's, and dated from before 1910. It closed in

By Jeff English · #12363 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question.

Dave Nelson wrote, in part: Dave, there were two General Motors plants in Southern California that I know of: the Van Nuys plant for Chevy's and Pontiacs, and the South Gate plant for Cadillac's.

By Shawn Beckert · #12362 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question

Greg I wrote the section on the automobile cars prior to the introduction of the high cube and auto racks and it was edited down from around 60000 words to just over 3500 to fit in the space, so

By Larry Smith · #12361 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question

Regarding RRs and the auto industry, Dave Nelson writes that in 1950 California was a major market for automobiles, even ca. 1950, and in the post-WW-II era Ford, GM, Chrysler, and Studebaker all had

By Richard Hendrickson · #12360 ·

Re: ICC Valuation

Until the previous discussion on valuation I had always assumed that it started after 1913. However, upon hearing Tony's and others' reference to earlier instances of valuation activity, it piqued

By CBarkan@... · #12385 ·

Re: Railroads and the Auto Industry: A Research Question

Greg Martin wrote, in part: Ah, but the devil is in the details, in this case the details of *which* equipment, *what* destinations and origins. I intend to run one or more sections of merchandise

By Shawn Beckert · #12359 ·

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