They had these laws in several states. The train crews had their hand in it. The shorter the trains the more train would have to be run and more trainman would be working. One state had a law you

I've pictures of C&O gondolas in Los Angeles in the 1950s. Al Kresse

Gary, I think it probably had more to do with economics then any thing else. The big voter turnout was from Cochise Couunty, which had large mining interests, a lot of railroads. Shorter trains means

Gary, I agree with you again. Apparently they had hearing in Washington, DC, May 1916, which the N&W folks participated in. That would be as the War in Europe was just unfolding and the US was

Its very odd to have a train length provision in a state constitution and its not something the usual politically connected interests want. The question is then "who benefits" and i don't think its

This law was put in place by the people of AZ when developing the AZ State Constitution in 1912 and voted on by the people of AZ. I've not seen any reference to union involment. Santa Fe and SP

Gary, Old timer guidance and historical recollections are great "original sources" in my book. If it was not for "old timer sargents" steering us straight we wouldn't have servived in the war zones

Andy, I thought the F&C gon was a flat kit (or kits, they come 2 in a package). Maybe this is a newer version of the same kit. The original ones didn't have any detail on the interiors of the side.

I spent 20 years in the ESPEE legal department and everyone there, including the olde timers when i was a pup, told me it was union lobbying for more work not coupler strength that was involved. If

Gary, First, I don't doubt your very logical conclusion. Do you have any pre-WWI "original source" documentation to back that up? . . . or even a general book on railroad history during those

The state laws had much more to do wth union politics then coupler strength. The laws were desiged to maximize union employment and or overtime. The unions were pushing for federal laws to do the

Thanks for finding support material relative to the 1912 Arizona 70-car freight train length limit. Rationale appears to be to minimize coupler failures resulting from higher slack-loads from longer

Dick, As we have been over multiple times in the past, the F&C home page works fine, the problem is that when you try to view, say "HO Freight Cars", you get a list of roadnames that then goes

In Mozilla Firefox on a PC, I viewed the site then called up the source and did a search for what I wanted. I copied that reference and pasted it to the base URL and got the page. A little cluggy

This is an old problem with their website. You can get to the home page, but unless you're using Explorer, you can't get inside and look at the individual models. It's been like this from day

Hi Guys, Does anyone have any information regarding the Terrell Cotton Oil Company and their tanks cars? Their reporting marks, history, transport of what and why etc thanks for your help MATT

hi tehre, Can anyone tell me if Continental Oil used Tank Cars with any other reporting marks than CONX and CTAX? i.e. Did they lease any cars from GATX, UTLX etc? Also when did they change their

Brian, Can't explain what your problem is, but using Firefox 3 on a MacBook Pro, the site comes up fine. Dick

What scale? F&C already does a resin kit for these! BTW, F&C's website STILL refuses to work on my Mac, either in Safari or Firefox. That's just lame. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni From: Richard Yoder

I've updated my stock car photo page with some details of ATSF cars and the CM&StP at Galveston http://atsfrr.net/resources/Sandifer/Clinics/Stk/PresStk.htm ______________ J. Stephen (Steve)