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Re: Making money with a railroad

Thanks everyone for the responses. Geez, what an arcane system - no wonder railroads went out of business. I realize that the ICC had a part to play in maintaining that byzantine system, but I

By Kurt Laughlin <fleeta@...> · #58663 ·

Re: Canadian box cars in the US

I like what Marty's saying here. I think one should focus on the "appearance" based on you area of the railroad you model. You should think of what types of industries your area/era represents and

By Greg Martin · #58662 ·

Re: Canadian box cars in the US

While this was not CV, on 12/18/1950 there were ten CN box cars out of a total of fifty thee cars on Rutland train #9.All were loads.Armand Premo

By armprem · #58661 ·

Re: AAR stockcar

Tim, new stock cars of any design were very rare after WW II. Almost all RRs that needed stock cars had a generous supply of obsolete box cars which could easily be converted into stock cars, and

By Richard Hendrickson · #58660 ·

Re: Car movements

Posted by: "Russell Strodtz" sheridan@... theloweryard Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:11 am (PST) Rupert, As to ORER's there were many tariffs that involved minimums and took into account the

By Malcolm Laughlin <mlaughlinnyc@...> · #58699 ·

Re: Practical use for model box cars

I understand that Canada can only grow spring wheat. Because of their very cold winters. I worked for International Milling Co in Salina Ks. Most of the wheat grown in the good ol US of A is winter

By ljack70117@... · #58659 ·

Re: AAR stockcar

--- benjaminfrank_hom wrote Thanks. That was the source of my confusion -- the GN and DRGW cars had Pratt trusses, and I mistakenly thought they followed the AAR spec. Yes, I think so too.

By Tim O'Connor · #58658 ·

Re: Car movements

Further on Rupert’s questions and Russ’s response. The RER was actually a tariff subject to the same publication rules and regulation as other tariffs. Nearly all freight rate tariffs made

By Malcolm Laughlin <mlaughlinnyc@...> · #58698 ·

Re: Practical use for model box cars

Clark, I don't know for a fact, but I would be very surprised if the US would be shipping grain to Canada, one of the world's major grain producers. Canada has been exporting grain for probably a

By cj riley <cjriley42@...> · #58657 ·

Re: Practical use for model box cars

Are you talking about the scale inside the elevator structure? If I remember correctly they used a 'batch' type scale at the top of the internal grain leg. Thanks I forgot about those, Clark Propst

By rockroll50401 <cepropst@...> · #58656 ·

Re: Practical use for model box cars

--- In STMFC@..., "rockroll50401" <cepropst@...> wrote: Clark, The elevators I worked in had certified scales and the scale tickets went to the railroad when shipping. P Scheuerman > >

By oracle1728 <pscheuerman@...> · #58655 ·

Re: Source of photo of C&O gondola 43089

Yes I have Bill Welch

By lnbill <bwelch@...> · #58654 ·

Practical use for model box cars

ROAD NAME NUMBER CAR TYPE LOAD TO Manufr CN 475916 Box Paper Incline IM/Sylvan CN 414593 Box Lumber Builders/MC L Westfld CP 236378 Box Lumber Builders/MC L Tichy To put all these recent

By rockroll50401 <cepropst@...> · #58653 ·

Re: AAR stockcar / missing part of first post

Cattle prods were around in the late 40's. Stock truck drivers carried one for sure. We didn't have one. a 2x4 worked well on hogs. cattle usually followed the leader. However the 2x4 also worked. A

By ron christensen · #58652 ·

Re: Car movements

Rupert, As to ORER's there were many tariffs that involved minimums and took into account the capacity of a furnished car. The ORER was the only official publication that could be cited. As to the

By Russell Strodtz <sheridan@...> · #58651 ·

Re: Canadian box cars in the US

Don Burn wrote: Based on photo evidence (I've got one or two pictures of CV trains) there was a noticeable percentage of CN cars on the CV in the 1950s -- especially on CV train 430 from Montreal

By mjmcguirk@... · #58650 ·

Re: BOX CAR CLASSIFICATION.

This would only be possible if the cars had some special equipment. General service cars were free runners and stenciling really meant nothing. You could get around this by classifying a car "XP" but

By Russell Strodtz <sheridan@...> · #58649 ·

Re: SCO-90

May have one. If I find it will share. I wonder if there is an accessible surviving copy of SCO-90. Malcolm Laughlin, Editor 617-489-4383 New England Rail

By Russell Strodtz <sheridan@...> · #58647 ·

Re: Making money with a railroad

Tony, If we are talking about freight charges then it would mean it was prepaid. If the charges are for icing or pre-cooling then that would be an advance. I would not be surprised if the tariffs

By Russell Strodtz <sheridan@...> · #58646 ·

Re: Making money with a railroad

Jack, You are doing just fine. Keep in mind that a waybill is not a freight bill. Normally the destination Agent had to make up a freight bill for every inbound car. While I can not recall ever

By Russell Strodtz <sheridan@...> · #58648 ·

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