As I was beginning analysis of the wine carrying cars in the UP Frt Conductor's Book, I decided that I would sample some of the contents of said cars. This, unfortunately, led me to send a message

US Quartermaster Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts

Mike queried: I notice the reporting marks USQX in the Frt Conductor Book. This reporting mark appears to not exist in my '53 ORER. Does anyone know what this was in '49? Mike Brock Mike,

I notice the reporting marks USQX in the Frt Conductor Book. This reporting mark appears to not exist in my '53 ORER. Does anyone know what this was in '49? Mike Brock

From the UP Frt Conductor's Book... One train had 15 cars carrying rail westbound between Laramie and Rawlins. These cars were: 1.UP 55052 Flat 2.SP 48612 Flat 3.CNW 43651 Flat 4. SP 151256 GS

enough of up I I'm the wrong kind of techie (I'm a hardware guy), but I'll try to fake it. What about select mfr, part_number from HO_kit where HO_kit.prototype=orer!roster.class_id and

Warren, I've got a fair number of photos of freight cars from those RRs, some of them prints of which copies are no longer available, which I could send in the form of JPEGs. Tell me exactly what era

In a message dated 3/2/01 9:54:19 AM Pacific Standard Time, guycwilber@... writes: << also the revision of the present note to Rule 3; excepting industrial or other cars not intended for

All, The date of the banning of Arch Bar trucks in interchange has probably been beat to death, but... Many railroads, private car owners, and the American Petroleum Institute lobbied hard

Mike Brock wrote: Earth to Mike. Tony and I (and others) have been making this point for years. Aside from the fact that coal wasn't widely used as a fuel in the western U.S., hardly any users had

I wrote: And Jeff Aley responds with: Well, not LA-4...since the UP went to LA on its own...well sort of. Sounds like SP-1 is/was. Don't know what the other numbers stood for. I wrote: Jeff answers

Fellers, Since I do not currently have a layout for lack of suitable space, I am doing what I can in the meantime, i.e.: trying to assemble research, and maybe build a few kits. My goal

Very interesting to see so many off-line hoppers at that time. It makes me wonder if UP's receipt of a large order of 70 ton hoppers (the H-70-1 class) in 1949 had the effect of sending most of

Styrene. I can't imagine trying it with Delrin (c) grabs. Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts

Richard Stallworth asked: "Is there a problem in getting models from Sunshine Models? I've heard it mentioned on other lists that it takes a very loonnggg time to receive models or catalogs from

Jeff Aley writes, about Mike Brock's UP consist data: I never claimed this was true "in the west," certainly not on Sherman Hill (which, as we've previously established, is only marginally in the

Tim, Have you been doing this with the DA (delrin) grabs, or with styrene grabs? I couldn't keep a good enough grip on the DA grabs to accomplish this (after losing 4 or 5, I gave up!). Any tricks

At the RPI club, we need a bunch of pulpwood cars. We have a number of MDC gons lettered for C&O (the prototype of the kit) and a few kitbashed to N&W and Rutland (different ends). We just