I'd like to add this 50 ton truck to the wish list. It's good for tank cars built in the thirties. I don't know the manufacturer, Scullin

Here's the much anticipated results of the 1956 UP train box car composition over Sherman Hill. There were 31 trains. Of these, there were 5 EB "lumber" trains containing 11, 10, 8, 9, and 10 SP box

special form. Two copies were sent to the accounting department and two copies to the car department and one filed in the files where they were recorded. This was done on the whole RR and was done on

_ch00ch00@... (mailto:ch00ch00@...) writes: One of the smallest railroads paid the MOST per diem, The Long Island Rail Road was a dead end railroad that owned NO

It's a bit of a relief to read this e-mail tonight! I was starting to wonder about the proportions of railway specific freight car books in my collection. Do I have enough PRR, or NKP or ATSF or

I have to agree with Richard, but I would go one step forward. I think that any one interested in freight cars ought to have this set of excellent, state of the art books. Cyril

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