Warren Dickinson asks: Depends on the railroad, the era, and the particular part of the railroad, Warren. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA

One of our members is assembling a bunch of the Stewart channel side hoppers, and wanted to know what trucks to use. I found one picture where I think the car had Andrews, but it isn't clear, and one

their Ah, did I happen to mention that I am also a member of the midearthrails group? I keep our mascot, Smaug II, in my back yard. Jack Priller Honorable Association of Good Guys and Irreverent

I have read that AT&SF was closer to 60%, while the UP and SP reported 30% but that this ignored PFE cars!* I think 30% is a minimum for a model of most any railroad, just to plant the idea in the

Regarding per centages of home cars on home rails, I believe that Dave Nelson provided us with some '44 [?] data about this some time ago. I know I have it somewhere. Anyhow, I believe that for UP,

This is a test only.

Warren Dickinson wrote: Certainly a valid generalization, Warren, but there are so many exceptions that you can't count on it applying in specific cases unless you have photographic or other

Tim O'Connor writes: Well, let's wait until we see them before we get overly excited. Yes, the likelihood of seeing a model of an H-70-1 is about the same as seeing a plastic scale model of UP Big

Steam Listers, Our prior discussion about foreign road hoppers got me to thinking again about the subject of proper ratios of home vs. foreign road cars in recreating history via

I thought of sitting down and translating the small print, but figured it wasn't worth the effort and no one would care. Warren

Yikes! If you read the small lettering, the hoppers are H-70-1's and the caboose is a CA-3/CA-4. Holy Cow!! I've wanted these hoppers for years and now they're coming from Europe, of all places!

Photos available. Well, actually, they're prototype photos... http://www.rocousa.com/marklin/new2001/044.jpg http://www.rocousa.com/marklin/new2001/045.jpg It looks like the hoppers are H-70-1's; I

Both home road and foreign road hoppers were in use for the coal traffic on the Western Maryland in 1952. The following data is based on an article in the May 1952 issue of Modern Railroads and the

Sure, John. In fact, to save us both a bit of time, you have blanket permission to quote anything I post to the freight car or STMFC lists (unless I'm flaming someone or vice-versa!). Richard H.

Tony, list OOOPS! My apologies to you and the list - meant to send that to Richard ONLY...but thanks for the update <G> and now back to our regularly scheduled programming. Happy Rails Bruce Bruce

Though it's off-topic, I feel that accuracy requires observing that MacInTax is no more. Intuit now calls both its PC and Mac products TurboTax. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

Richard - Can I quote this on our Tichy section (http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/rolling-stock/Kits/Tichy-kits.html ) ? - John

Hi Richard, Don't I know it! BTW, I find MacinTax to be very helpful this time of year (as I'm sure is TurboTax, the PC version)...it interfaces directly with Quicken, and even though my taxes are

Mike: I suspect that having a Yahoo ID is the reason why I keep getting SPAM messages of questionable honesty offering all sorts of "deals" on non-railroad merchandise and services. This didn't