Dave, I'd be cautious about over-generalizing here. It depends in part on the geographic region and the particular railroad you're modeling. While it's true that very few fifty foot single

Hello, Would anyone on this site know just exactly what was entailed when a railroad serviced a car and stenciled on the REPKD.plus date ,location and road abr.name?Most early stm.era truck

Hi all, First, many thanks for all the info and leads to more. Second... sorry for the terminological faux pas... I really do know better... single sheathed, double door box cars are my

They can't be any older than that - the ICC was created in 1887. KL

The first one should be 1887. 10-1 was the 14th report. Howard Garner

Put a 1 in front of the number below, and you¹ve got it. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni From: Rob Kirkham <rdkirkham@...> Reply-To: <STMFC@...> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:48:26 -0800 To:

With all the recent tank car ID questions, I thought some might find this photo on E-Bay of interest. Its auction 90175576263 Allegedly taken 1940. I'm not sure what single sheathed auto box car is

On p. 26 of Tom Fetters' book on the Piedmont & Northern is a full-page photo of one of the P&N's articulated electric locomotives pulling a string of flatcars, of which the first two are visible.

Jim, I have an Excel spreadsheet, which I suspect came from the late Tim Gilbert, titled "HomevsForeign.xls". His analyis shows the % of home-road BOX CARS on line, by region, in 1944, are: New

IH measurement? Can we assume that a car that is 5" lower than another in IH is automatically 5" lower externally? One of the most interesting freight car photos I have is an enlargement of 2 stock

Earl Tuson wrote: And the ones I have are indeed blue, though a pretty dark or navy blue. They date back at least to 1896 (oldest one I have). Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

If the More likely would depend upon who make the routing. If the routing was decided by the railroad's agent, it would travel as much as possible on his railroad. If the shipper was making the

It's roughly 1200 miles from LA to Portland via SP and 1700 via UP; the best UP route goes directly from Salt Lake to Pocatello, and doesn't enter Wyoming (minor point). But if one believes UP

When were these Annual Reports on the Statistics of Railways in the United States (Blue Books) first published? Eric Hansmann Morgantown, W. Va.

They had a refinery at Martinez, CA. If you were going to Martinez from Concord you went through the tank farm. I was a thermo cracker operator there in 1950. Lindsay

Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States. Earl Tuson

Jeff: I am looking for the same data Tim was referencing but for the era I am interested in 1957. I did a card catalog search of the Buffalo and Erie County (NY) Public Library and found some ICC

There is additional information that both complements and contradicts some of what Richard has said. This small company attracted my attention because of the area of operation and the peculiar

Brian, I don't know the formal name of the "Blue Books" that Tim constantly referenced. But I do have some other ICC sources. What kind of data are you looking

Jeff wrote "I believe Railway Age published these kinds of statistics, though Tim's data may be from the ICC Blue Books instead." I am currently starting to do some research requiring these ICC Blue