========== I don't agree with this. I began nin operations in 1960. Given that for the next ten years we were trying to change what had been in effect for dozens of years, I can say that

I'd like to try to clarify the diversion thing a bit based on what I believe to have been the rules. The excerpt from Don Holbrook below is a nice summary of what happened. BTW, all that I've read

railroad yes, And Tony's comment about SP flat cars means those of us who model the SP pre-World War II are up the creek because there aren't any models of pre-World War II SP flat cars (in HO scale

Thanks Larry. Its a few years late in publication from my model era (1946), but I think it would probably be useful to get one at some point. Rob Kirkham

Larry I suspect Tim would have recommended computing the standard deviation of this data set, in order to see how closely these observed differences from the mean values match the expected standard

Larry Kline wrote: Man! That's a lot of piles! Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510)

Correction: Simmons-Boardman currently sells the Encyclopedia of North American Railroads, published by Indiana Univ. Press http://www.transalert.com/cgi-bin/details.cgi?inv=BKENARR&cat=19 Its

Rob Kirkham wrote: A question: what is the Handbook of American Railroads - that's a new one to me. Is it analogous to the ORER? Published how frequently? The Handbook of American Railroads, by

Thanks Larry! Apart from the PRR, my impression - just scanning through the numbers - is that by incorporating the Canadian numbers (which are obviously underrepresented by fleet size, reflecting the

Rob Kirkham wrote: Its an interesting document both for how it correlates and how it does not. I don't suppose you have another version that incorporates the (controversial?) Canadian railway

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Eric, Thanks. I went through a goodly portion of the images searched under railroad and coal. Mostly 50-ton hops and gons. It would be interesting to know which plants these larger cars were

Hi Larry, Its an interesting document both for how it correlates and how it does not. I don't suppose you have another version that incorporates the (controversial?) Canadian railway equipment? I

For all of you who like the other end of the train. Dwight Jones has just released another in his series of books about cabooses. This one is about DT&I Cabooses. 88 pages of history and many

I just posted a table in the files section file that compares expected and actual counts of boxcars by railroad in the NMRA Charles collection. The file name is _Compare box car counts US RRs -

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I uploaded a document in the FILES section titled "Unknown Foundry Symbols". I know there are many on here who have examined such marks on trucks, couplers, and other hardware and might have photos

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