In a message dated 8/23/2008 12:25:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wakeene@... writes: My question is what amount of operating time/distance are we looking at that will result in worn

Hi Chris, would it be possible for you to provide the pictures a bit bigger ?? The motives deseerve more then 448 by 330, IMHO... best regards Bernd many miles away from any RPM meet...

Here are some more photos of the St. Louis RPM... http://www.pbase.com/cttmopac/2008_st_louis_rpm&page=all In addition, Perry Lambert has phots

Hard to tell from the Fallen Flags image, but I happen to have a 2/59 in-service photo of exactly the same car, DAX 309, thanks to the redoubtable Col. Chet McCoid, which shows the trucks better.

70 ton AAR with 5-spring spring group, spring plank, and Barber lateral motion devices. Richard Hendrickson

Excellent! Thanks Richard! Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 9:43 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Per Diem - AAR Home Districts Rob Nothing that granular: BC was AAR Zone 22

Wouldn't the per diem be offset by the NYO&W's share of the revenue for whatever was being shipped? Gene Green wrote: interchange. For an over 400-mile Class One pike, this road must have had

Brian and Tom, I just went to the site and the homepage showed up.   Sincerely, Mark Morgan  

Rob Nothing that granular: BC was AAR Zone 22 "Western Canada"... Railroads shown as "Principal Freight Car owners" in Zone 22 were: CN, CP, GN, MStP&SSM, NP, PGE, SOO Here are all the AAR Car

Hello Group, From time to time I have seen comments from the Group regarding truck wear from operation and I can understand that this is a concern. Worn trucks could take the fun out of an

It does appear to be down, but if you do a Google search on Speedwitch and then open a cached page, you can access all the content. I know Ted had a bunch of bad internal links on his web site,

Working fine from my links page Brian...ISP issues at your end perhaps? Regards, Peter http://www.freewebs.com/newhavenrailroad1959/

Comes up not found! -- Thanks! Brian Ehni

Think about it -- lots of railroads had per diem deficits. Imagine the size of the Belt Railway of Chicago's deficit -- they usually had 10,000 or more cars of other railroads on their property! Tim

wrote: > CN did a systemwide 8 AM check in the era of STMFC. Steve Lucas. and B&M. like clerk

Walt And my point was that per diem was not even money to pay down the interest on the bonds needed to buy new freight cars in the 1950's, much less total ownership costs. So while NYSW (not the O&W,

Bill Those 'notches' on either side of the spring pack remind me of Barber S-2. Maybe an earlier Barber? Tim

I really like the massive look of the trucks on this 65 foot Erie #15000 gondola, although I don't know what kind they are. http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie15000cdb.jpg Tim O'Connor

Hi Richard - I'm curious - was there an AAR district shown for the Pacific coast of Canada (around Vancouver B.C. - just north of the border; just north of Bellingham Washington?) If yes, which

Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. Messages In This Digest (8 Messages) 1a. Re: ORER discrepancy From: George Hollwedel 1b. Re: ORER discrepancy