Yes During WWII (and in fact prior and post) the output of "the mid- continent" refineries was used almost exclusively in that region. Those refineries were strained trying to produce just what was

ike wrote That seems odd to me, considering that the SP usually ran more than 30 freights (60-100 cars) over Donner Pass on a typical day, and most of that was going to or coming from Ogden. And that

Mike wrote I have a logical explanation. Not every UP freight on Sherman Hill served the same purpose. Some were locals. Some were headed to the PNW. Some were headed to Denver, or Kansas. And SOME

In a message dated 8/17/2008 11:57:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, b.leppert@... writes: I have no idea what an X35 box car is. The PRR class X35 boxcar was one car class -- the Pennsy's

Walter M. Clark wrote: Sounds promising. I'd like to hear how it goes. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Tony's suspicions appear to be correct. The UP S-40-6 is closely related to the SP S-40-5 but there ARE differences. Apparently (Tony can please confirm) the S-40-5 was pretty much unchanged during

Rich Yoder wrote: Not clear to me. The UP S-40-6 cars were built in 1918, well after the Harriman Lines had dissociated, and I really can't say for sure if this UP class even corresponds exactly

mentioned, maybe a grace period of one digest would be in order. This list has unreasonable volume to get individual messages. when I want to and don't have the messages, or even the digests,

exactly True, but actually I was looking at the floor/underframe for one of Al's B-50-1/2/3/4 box cars, with the idea of trying a Harriman-era F-50-1/2/3 working from the photos in Chapter 9 of Volume

This is interesting. Do you know of any published photos? And hopefully not in some issue of the Keystone; the only one I have is Summer 1988. And heck, I have no idea what an X35 box car

Folks, I grow weary of this. No one has answered Tony's challenge to provide evidence that supports a "regional bias in boxcars" position. It seems that any evidence that does not support this

Um, Rich, The mean is the average. Are you thinking about the median? (the point at which half the samples are above that value and half are below)., Regards Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

refined noted Bruce, For UTLX, my '43 ORER tank tally has: 18830 - 8k TM 13666 - 10k TM 1008 - 8k TMI 3600 - 10k TMI plus 1556 under 8k, and 18 either over 10k or multi-compartment. I thought

Can't tell you the class but from the 1930 ORER it is a single deck steel u/f stock car number series 44250 - 46759 IL 36'6" IW 8'5" IH 8' 2596 cu ft 80,000lbs capacity door 5' x 7'10" end door

It would appear that we are headed down the road of confusing average and mean. Which are totally different. Given 10,000 freight cars past a given point, the average will most likely mimic the

Steve Lucas writes: "Tony-- After reading this thread for some time, I have to agree with your basic premise. Most major through transcon routes such as the UP in Wyoming would very likely have over

Posted by: "John Stokes" >This is the other factor in this essentially impossible and largely meaningless exercise in trying to figure out how many cars of each type would typically be seen on a

PRR truck class 2D-F10 tracing e-94261 issued 1932. These were used under FM class flat cars, X29 and X35

I don't think we can draw too many conclusions on car distrubution based on the list of cars in the Charles Collection other than to marvel at the variety of cars which stopped in Harrisburg.