If you want a good understanding of the POSTWAR FREIGHT CAR FLEET as it was in the northeast: Buy it. I did and I'm glad I did. SGL La vita e breve, mangiate prima il dolce!

I noticed that book went out of print pretty fast. It must be good, eh? What's the consensus? -Tony Higgins the

So... Tony, when a carload was sold in transit to a buyer, who specified the diversion route -- the buyer, or the shipper? Tim

Kits for the caswell gondolas are a month or 2 out, according to Intermountain. I have shipped all orders that I have received for these RTR (Assembled) ATSF Caswell gondolas, and I have a few

Greg Martin wrote (among other things): Well, you may be right. But Pete Holst worked his whole career in car service, and I really doubt he knew less than you about car movements, shipper

I agree with you that sugar beets and the flaxseed would not have moved in reefers. It is unclear what was included in the 1947 "other products of agriculture". The 1926 Annual Report uses the same

Well, at least the New Haven's devotees don't delude themselves about it being "the standard railroad of the world," etc. Richard Hendrickson

Kurt Laughlin wrote: Of course, the shipper had no recourse (other than damage claims). One difference between the old UTL and PFE is that by 1906 the ICC required common carriers to provide

Guyz, All I can say is "ouch"! I have some NH car plans for kitbashing when Brianna is ready to start her own list. Fred Freitas Brian J Carlson <brian@...> wrote: On

And look in the Files area at ERIE train X-78, 2-15-31, with 36 loads of meat, and X-78, 2-13-31, with a dozen cars of meat, in a train otherwise composed (with one exception) of fruit, principally in

I read what Bruce had reduced as a comparsion PRR/Eire and it follows the ICC data that was presented in TKM accurately the data often presented here falls short of the entire story that needs to be

George W Simmons wrote: Hopefully they only moved that way for fairly short distances. PFE moved something like 30,000 cars of cantaloupes a year from the Imperial Valley of California alone in

Tom Madden wrote: No, it's a 1-minute job to add that info, and costs zero. But remember, Tom, the NMRA folk aren't very experienced in publishing--though you'd think that they would be aware

melons, Growing up, my father a MOP conductor/brakeman wouldn't let me keep cantaloupe in the ice box/refrigerator saying, "after you have ridden behind a train load of cantaloupe for 100 miles you

This afternoon's mail brought a package from the NMRA containing a copy of the Cline/Culotta POSTWAR FREIGHT CAR FLEET book. I missed the first printing but ordered a copy as soon as I saw the

and then Kurt Laughlin wrote: Kurt is right about the differences in discussion, but notice that Schuyler did NOT say the Erie carried MOST of the perishables, only that they were the LARGEST of