Signature Press is proud to announce that in about one month's time, the concluding volume in the series, SP Freight Cars, Volume 5, will be released. The car types included are hoppers, covered

Hi Richard, Brian, et al, I'd vote for the 6-spring version also. I found that my Atlas 70t ballast hart-hopper have that truck that we've long been waiting for. But I've not tried to get more of

Ed, That's a pretty definitive statement. I think you probably meant that the LI did not own any interchangable FREIGHT cars (since of course, their passenger cars did interchange). However, my

My strong preference would be for those on the Erie gon. The trucks on the flat car were self-aligning spring-plankless, and we have several of those in HO scale already (granted, they're

Dennis,I am in the process of a thorough study for a whole month for the road that I am modeling.I am fortunate enough to have a relatively large collection of wheel reports covering a period from

Mike That's a lot of betting, doubts, and exclamatory statements for one paragraph. Since when does a "shorter route" have much to do with anything related to car routing? Freight cars don't travel

Amen, Richard and Dennis. What I was trying to say all along. This should satisfy everyone who has a dog in this hunt, recognizing each perspective as part of the whole, but not THE whole, makes

Bang on, Dennis. Thank you for stating so succinctly the case for researching the intended prototype intensively rather than getting absorbed in abstract statistics. Not to say that the

Put me down for 70-ton trucks in several versions... These: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie-f8000b.jpg These: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie10325b.jpg Or these:

Not really. The other roads would put their interchange on the track. The Un Pac would pull their cars off and put ours on the track. I remember one night we had more cars than the interchange would

cars as a "transfer run".)" train is a locomotive Cheyenne. My east side of Incidentally, the followed by I'm pretty certain the location is Speer and the train pulled by 4005 is westbound on track 3,

states I'm sure this is the key… I'm sure that after one applies a whole bunch of "weighting factors" that account for proximity of other roads, preferred interchange partners, preferred routes for

listed in the when it without built and, collected (about Rupert, the SP was another road that listed a group of cars before arrival, an instance of listing a group of box cars that never did appear.

Before we leave this fascinating[?] look into frt car distributions, perhaps it's time for a brief and casual look at the logic with associated RR interchanges. The Nelson/Gilbert theory says that

Matt,You could also add the CV/GT/CN ,Rutland and the NJ at Rouses Point.Armand Premo

Jason Hill writes: "It would really help in the train symbols were included in this list of data, not just the could of how many of who's cars went by a given point." You're certainly right about

Gene Green wrote: For SP Pacific Lines, the 1891 renumbering book (a printed book) includes a superb snapshot of the roster at the time, including MANY cars which were 25 years old. It's at

Laramie Larry writes: "Or maybe not: It turns out that the probability of 36 or more cars is so low that Excel cannot calculate it. For example a 90 boxcar train with a "mere" 20 or more SP boxcars

Posted by: "Larry Jackman" yard engine did was grab the Cars for the Mop, RI and John Santa FE and make a run to get then on the Interchanges BEFOR 11:59 PM. If he did not get them there by 11:59 we

Tim O'Connor writes: "Mike Brock wrote Gee, Mike, that's looks like 4 of the top 5 box car owning railroads are in the... top 5 of your counts of box cars of non-home road cars." Yep. Let the cards