Bruce Smith wrote: > snip Bruce, You raise an interesting point and question "How did car builders place the decking on flat cars?" Did they start from the ends as you do or from the middle. I have

As I noted in my message of August 18, we have just about drained the useful information out of the frt car distribution thread. I also asked in that thread for opinions regarding the acceptable

Drawings start in 1926 for hopper cars, flat cars and gondolas, we have one 1955 conceptual drawing for an M-55 boxcar. Tale Care -Nick Fry Archivist Director at Large

Yesterday I saw a RDG retrospective on "Trains and Locomotives" on RFD- TV. The first segment was all steam (both B&W and color)including a camelback. There was a MILW 2 bay offset hopper in a

Could you please tell us the exact time period these cover. Cyril Durrenberger nfryumbc <borhsarchives@...> wrote: The B&O Railroad Historical Society is happy to announce

The B&O Railroad Historical Society is happy to announce that a selection of steam era B&O Painting and Lettering Diagrams are now available via our new publication "Scans from the Archives Vol. 3" A

Hey Guys,   Does anybody know the dates for Larry Kline's RPM Meet over in Pittsburgh in 2009?  I hear there will be some steam freight car (required content) models there.   Thanks, John John

Rob, On the subject of creosoted lumber for flat car decks. We've learned here previously some railroads did precisely that (e.g. AT&SF), and that others (e.g. PRR) did not (Pennsy used oak, which

Is there some way to limit this subject to say no more than say 5 e-mails per day? . . . . unless there is NEW real data to share? . . . . or is there some way to make this a sub-group that one has an

All, Many components get close to scale dimensions. Why not the airhose as has been mentioned before. To make a scale gladhand I need the dimensions of it better a measured drawing. Is there any

Knowing the UP, this probably happened more than a few times...

Jason & Rob I'm working from original PRR drawings that show the planking to be Tongue & Groove 2 3/8" x 5 1/4". I guess we are used to lumber yard sizes and not Mill sizes. Ed Schleyer Rob & Bev

Steve, Those cars obviously got there, but did they ever get home? Mexican railroads were (and still are) notorious for capturing U.S. cars. I've heard that even today when they come back north, the

Allen, Great data! Do you know if the UP -> Wabash traffic in KC was primarily PFE reefers? Or was it a lot of general merchandise? Also, is it correct to assume that the

Mike Brock wrote: thinks." attendees at asking only a month later that noticed some Soon I Had I 33 yrs In this that that when distant Center Mike, Tim's and Dave's analysis was only on a few trains

Jason, I am building a Westrail A.A.R. Fifty Ton, 53'6" flatcar resin kit. The deck was originally scribed styrene. I decided that since I wasn't going to build the scale underframe, I will use

Somebody notify me when this exercise is over...until then, I'm checking out! Mark F. wrote: more traffic.

Malcolm Laughlin <mlaughlinnyc@...> wrote: Cyril, I like your approach, but two comment/questions. Has anyone ever done this ? BC of course. Not that I am aware of. I would to

Malcolm, For fleet selection, the idea of adding a "weight" to the percentage of each railroad's fleet is appealing to me. This encompasses the idea of "home road", and "close affiliates". For the

Posted by: "wmcclark1980" What we have is the problem that always occurs when using statistics. Most people won't accept that a relatively small sample size can forecast much larger populations with