Rich Orr wrote: During the Harriman era, Railway Age editorialized that the Harriman roads had carried standardarization further than, as they put it with tongue in cheek, "certain well

In a message dated 3/25/2007 10:36:33 AM Central Daylight Time, timboconnor@... writes: So there you have it. I suppose one should preface one's question with "What is the answer today?"

A quick search of Walthers and others show these out of stock and availability unknown. So I'm guessing they are out of business or at least have not produced any product for some time. The

I'm an enthusiastic admirer of the Tahoe Model Works arch bar trucks, but the arch bars applied to the prototype cars when new were 5' wheelbase with a different side frame configuration, so the

As of 1950, Heinz rostered 24 vinegar tank cars, not a large fleet but one that traveled widely (there are photos of them in west coast locations like Los Angeles and Oakland), since carload lots of

Greg Martin wrote: Tell us again, Greg, which railroad it was which styled itself the "Standard Railroad of the World." Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

Al Westerfield wrote: Correct, Al, except they were NOT per diem payments, they were mileage payments. Some lease contracts provided for subtracting the mileage payments on a car (for that

Greg Martin wrote: What Greg and the other Pennsy apologists forget is that 25 years earlier, PRR was taking the lead in OPPOSING larger cars, what they termed "unnecessarily large" cars. They

Thanks Rick for all the detail about SLRX.. Your comment about Varney was interesting. They were nice kits, but I've never had a feeling of the extent to which lettering on them was for cars that

The worst problem in my opinion was that the per diem that the railroads had pay to haul long distance shipments in the leased cars was so great that the lessees' lease cost was more than covered by

I agree with you, Tony. :-) I always understood the intention of the 'ban' was to curb such abuses, whereas advertisement of one's own products on one's own freight cars (covered hoppers, reefers, box

Kurt Laughlin wrote: As I stated back in 2002, this aspect was a very small part of the abuses which the ICC stepped in to correct. The free advertising was indeed ruled a rebate, but this is

Tim O'Connor wrote: Read Richard Hendrickson's clear summary. My 2002 comments about 1946 and thereafter were based on a misunderstanding of the rule. It is clear that "advertisement" was

In a message dated 3/25/2007 4:24:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, thompson@... writes: Tell us again, Greg, which railroad it was which styled itself the "Standard Railroad of the

Jim, as Tony Thompson has already posted, the ruling was made by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The ICC ruling took effect early in 1934, after which billboard advertising could not be applied

It was part of Paul Larson's excellent "dollar car" scratchbuilding series of articles, the closest thing I ever had to a personal lesson in building from scratch and the opening of a wonderful world

Peter Weiglin wrote: Paul Larson, October 1953 MODEL RAILROADER, "Building an HO Swift Reefer" is the one I remember. Unfortunately, Paul is not now much older, having passed away in 1973. No, I

Richard, Tony and all, The point that seems to be overlooked here is that in the logical chronological order the PRR X29, X31/X32/X33, X37/X38 were cars produced with advancements ahead of the

Jim, here is what Tony Thompson posted on 6/6/2002 -- So there you have it. I suppose one should preface one's question with "What is the answer today?" since it seems likely to change tomorrow. Tim