There were 10 to 20 CN cars going down NYC's Hudson Division every day, paper for the New York Times. Malcolm Laughlin, Editor 617-489-4383 New England Rail Shipper

Thanks Larry, Merry Christmas!

A very easy industry to model is a newspaper printing plant - many rectangular buildings will look right. You can use a half dozen of those Canadian cars to bring in one or two cars every

The dry buckets Russ, I wasn't talking about the grain leg (elevator) its self, but a hopper that the leg dumped into. When this hopper was filled to a certain weight it would dump into the loading

I have compared notes and are having a hard time finding a source Chris, have them made, you would be surpised at how many sets you could sell. Rail Graphic requires 25 set order. Scale Rail Graphics

No, no, the northbound grain would have been ship(ped) out of Duluth MN- Superior WI. Clark Propst

Grain weather it be corn, wheat or what ever weighs so much per bushel. Grain was shipped by the bushel when I was on the RRs. The grain elevators had an agreement with the RRs on weight. We never

I recently acquired an old cabinet card photo of sheep being loaded into a Northern Pacific double deck stockcar, NP 16629. Does anyone have any information on when this car was built? Also trying

Clark, Only weights that were acceptable for trade were scale weights. If the elevator had a track scale they should have been able to get a WWIB weight agreement and then all was well. Bucket

Kurt, Moving structural steel that was long enough to require a 65' foot car increased the freight bill by about 25%. Rates were often based on the value of the product and the transportation

Right at the end of this groups time frame the economics of loading Hogs in the Midwest must have changed. The 36' and 40' cars vanished and were replaced with a CB&Q purpose built group of 50'

most pink, Here is an update on the above equipment: 1. Steve Lee, head of the Union Pacific Steam Program, confirms that RI caboose 17017 was purchased by the UP and will be moved to Cheyenne. 2.

Roger that. Marty's observation calls to mind RW-6, the "paper train" on D&H with its head end Canadian signature. Tim Gilbert's Suncook Valley analysis is interesting to me, and informative. My

As I recall it, the cars were never used in interchange service, running strictly on PE trackage, which would explain the lack of reporting marks. -- Paul

Bob Chaparro wrote: The cars still have their PE flat car numbers. If you look in Equipment Registers, these appear as flat cars, but PE did list them in some periods as tank cars--clearly

Here is an image of cars once used to transport spring water from San Bernardino, CA, to an Arrowhead water plant in Los Angeles. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics27/00048072.jpg I believe this is a Los

NP boxcars relegated to hide service received a simple stencil: HIDE LOADING ONLY in white, plain block letters about 5 inches in height. This stencil appears to be lacking from NP decal sets,

This may be a dumb answer, but wouldn't General American work? Or is there more to it than that? Rob Kirkham

Canada-US grain trade is a complex issue, and in recent times rather more heat than light has been shed around it due to issues of a political nature, which are out of scope for STMFC. However, some