Hello Group! I suspect this issue of inclusion of rolling stock details within the Valuation Reports may have been a railroad-to-railroad decision. Some have already reported that they found no

David Pfeiffer is retired. There is no one there right now that fills his shoes in terms of passion for railroads, although many of the archivists are friendly and helpful. David is still active--I

The “go to” guy for ICC valuation data at NARA Suitland used to be David Pfeiffer Not sure if he’s retired by now (I last emailed him approx. 2003) I have an email for him if you want to try

I did not look at rolling stock records, but during my forays into the ICC records at the National Archives in Suitland and later College Park, I have found very few photos. I was mostly looking at

I have a copy of the val report for the Rochester branch of the ERIE. I was looking for information that would cover the electrification that was in place ~1906-1914. I am less sure of the end date

I visited the National Archives back in 1985 to copy 1917 era ICC valuation information for some Texas railroads. A guy at the Interstate Commerce Commission had a 4-drawer file cabinet full of

Charlie Vlk wrote: A guy named Bill Edson used to sell these sets by railroad. I bought a bunch for roads I was interested in. Tony Thompson tony@...

This is a good question in general. I am doing research on the CB&Q Aurora-Chicago line and have the images of the ICC reports for the subject area physical plant from the BRHS Archives. I have

I have a question. What sort of documentation was done of rolling stock in the 1917-19 era ICC valuation of the railroads? Were pictures taken of the various classes of rolling stock like they did of

Notice the initials on the end of the gondola J.W.E.co. Virus-free. www.avast.com

I don't have any information on the Ellsworth Coal Line but here are two LOC images of the James W. Ellsworth and Co. coal dock in Cleveland

 Hi John, Decades ago, there was a major article in one of the hobbyist magazines on the CP 'Big Otis' gondolas, and I think it mentioned ELLSWORTH COAL LINE. Sadly, I don't even recall what

Does anyone know what the Ellsworth Coal Line was ? In the 1920s, 30s, and 40s the CPR owned a large number of 40-ft steel drop-bottom coal gondolas that were stenciled ELLSWORTH COAL LINE in addition

OK, a couple of things about the available ORERs: No, none of the Taplines versions are ORC and thus searchable. But most of them are indexed as seen here, so it's easy to find a road of interest and

Chris Adding "bookmarks" and an "index" seems rather pointless if the entire document were searchable for any text value. My guess is no, these are not OCR scans. And

I have not purchased the Taplines digital ORERs but I noticed that they are offering at least three older ones right now on ebay: 1899

Tim, yes – Alco Models imported NYC milk cars like the one you pictured, albeit with roof and floor level vents. The NEB&W via F&C offered a cast resin version way back when that was extremely top

This problem is not limited to the Westerfield scans. Best to ask before buying if you want any private road data. Dave Nelson From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On

Dave Talk is cheap... gimme a URL link so I can see for myself :-D And scanning 1,000+ pages is TIME CONSUMING unless you pay someone to do it for you;

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 04:33 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote: What we really need are PDF files that have been O.C.R. scanned ! :-P But such a project would probably be prohibitively expensive or time