Dave Nelson asks: Dave, I think the specialized nature of tank car and reefer traffic had inhibited railroads from wanting to own very big fleets, so private owners tended to do the job, and got the

As it appears it was a smart move to form all of the reefer and tank car companies, why didn't other car types and commodities get addressed this way too? Fer instance, 50' boxcars with auto racks

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Don't know about the others, Richard, but I do know from extensive references in PFE correspondence on official matters that it was indeed considered privately owned. Yes,

Byron Rose wrote: Good point, Byron; I'd forgotten about URT's use of URTC in the 1920s. But the latest example I can find of a car with URTC reporting marks is 1930, so your conjecture about the

Gentlemen, I stole this good idea from Richard Stallworth (he's a buddy of mine and a fellow Seaboard modeler). Mike Brock invited me to the list and I'm happy to be here, and am excited to learn as

I'll try to find time to do this, but it won't happen in the next week or two. No, but see below. Many URTX wood reefers were rebuilt beginning in the mid-1950s with 4-4 Dreadnaught ends and steel

Actually, a separate corporation in which many railroads owned stock: PRR, B&O, ACL, L&N, and Southern were among the major RRs that participated. Unlike PFE, SFRD, ART, and MDT, all of which (as

OTOH, Union Refrigerator Transit Line used URTC into the 30s and then changed to URTX. Could have had something to do with it's purchase by General American in 1930, but I believe URTC was in use

Richard, FGEX was a subsidiary of the L&N, ACL, and some other southeastern roads I believe. Warren SFRD, IC, NP, BAR, CN & CP reefers were obviously RR owned. ART, PFE, MDT(&

SFRD, IC, NP, BAR, CN & CP reefers were obviously RR owned. ART, PFE, MDT(& NRC) were apparently considered to be RR owned, as the companies were direct subsidiaries of WAB/MP, SP/UP and NYC. But

John Nehrich asks: John, read the message again. PFE and MDT (along with SFRD) already existed, with non-"X" marks, when this rule went into effect. PFE at least was definitely considered

Were PFE and MDT considered railroad-owned? Or was it just this wasn't enforced? (PFE, MDT, and probably a few others that I can't recall off-hand, were listed in the back of the ORER's in the

In a message dated 2/26/01 7:06:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, rhendrickson@... writes: << Plus, of course, a whole bunch of SP B-50-15s. >> Richard, It appears as if the two SP box cars to

In a message dated 2/27/01 7:46:05 AM Pacific Standard Time, tomgloger@... writes: << At what point in time did privately owned cars have an X added to their reporting marks, and when did it

Someone mentioned these cars recently. I wanted to let people know, especially those in California who are planning to attend the Prototype Modelers Seminars being done by Sunshine Models that ML will

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At what point in time did privately owned cars have an X added to their reporting marks, and when did it become mandatory? ===== - Tom Gloger e-mail: mailto:tomgloger@... web

Richard - Check the glossary section for some freight car terms at: http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/Glossary/Glossary-A.html and what you don't see there, let me know and I will try and post

I do have a Sunshine "catalog" of sorts -- I have a text file that I have kept up to date with all of the Sunshine kits, current as well as discontinued kits. I guess I could post it to the shared

Richard Stallworth asked: "Does Sunshine have a website? Do they produce a catalog?" Tony Thompson added: "No, and yes. Write to them at their address shown in many magazine ads (I don't have it