---In STMFC@..., <Lake_Muskoka@...> wrote : I suppose another way of looking at it is this: were the meaning of the car initials matched someplace by a the same name on a locomotive? If yes, don’t

Never fear folks -- the WAYBACK machine can get you the issues you missed. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.borhs.org/modelermag/index.html Tim O'Connor

Something I've noticed as I go through these consists is, every box car listed as "merchandise" has a 10 ton load weight. Considering that almost all of the other box cars have a more specific

With apologies to the list, I would like to correct some incorrectinformation in my previous email concerning Algoma Central box car no. 2901. Ioriginally counted the end ribs from a faded sketch and

Milw may be "High" due to their part ownership (with NYC and CNW) of IHB. Dick Haave

It’s been so long I don’t recall exactly what rule Tim and I followed. I do know I always recorded the car initial and not the corporate name. I always recorded the initials in the book as-is

Thanks, Cyril Durrenberger --------------------------------------------

Dave, I noticed a few car listings on your data that are NYC System affiliates; PLE, BA, CCCSTL, CNOR, MC, and PMKY. These account for 20 cars but I'm uncertain how much independence these lines had

IIRC it was a tiny bit below 23% Cyril. Given the NYC was so big it is certainly plausible that variation away from that number would occur elsewhere. ... again, IIRC the ICC data averaged out at

Thanks for the responses. Ken Schanz

B&O Modeler BOb Chapman writes:

Last year (maybe 2013), there was a widespread email posting requesting interest from modelers to support a proposed Southern Railway on-line modeling magazine similar to the ACL/SALHS, B&OHS and

Double Deck stock car, Dave. Regards, Guy Wilber Reno, Nevada

Thanks for doing this. I would like to see the percent from NYC as that would give us the amount from the home road. Cyril Durrenberger

Here is the ordered list of the US Boxcar Fleet - the NYC is zeroed out here because for this set of data it is the home road and so it doesn't count. I can see now there is a bit more variation that

Having done similar things I can say “That, Sir, is a lot of work you’ve done”. I took the rows from the last 30 trains, cut away the home road NYC boxcars (23% of all boxcars, about what

Bill, Politics, the damnation of usall. A couple years ago I needed some B&O info and mailed a request along with a $10.00 check. To this day I havenot received an answer, but the

Hello Group, It is sad to see a good source of modeling information going away. But this appears to be a manpower issue and not a lack of articles. The original post stated… Got a message yesterday

The value of the Load Limit specifies the actual limit to the load. The "CAPY" is only a nominal number. The limit weight the car can carry is determined by the size of the truck journals. One example

Terry wrote: "The originals notes marked them as boxcars – so I left them that way" Thank you, Terry. Kindest Regards, Guy Wilber Reno, Nevada