Charlie, I agree with what you have to say, but I think you meant you like OBjective reviews, not SUBjective reviews. Jim Quoting Charlie Vlk

Ohhhh!! Back to discussing Freight Cars!!!! I'm all for including reference photos whenever possible. I know that manufactuers and magazine article authors often have problems securing photos that

Brian J. Carlson wrote: operated in the I learned quite a bit on this topic from reading Moody's Industrials. I would think google could lead you to enough corporte histories that you could put

Mike Brock expresses some concern about the Prototype Police...as well he might. Mike, rest assured that the PP file with your name on it is a large one. And bear in mind that widely recognized

Gene Green wrote: I'll repeat myself: Tim and I were doing analysis of railroads, not model railroads. Our hypothesis on the distribution of ordinary boxcars was for real world data. That it might

Charlie; Funny that you brought that up! I have had that same problem with standardized car requirements/waybills on my layout. It just didn't seem to replicate what I thought was going on

Tony- At the risk of straying too far into the Operations Sig group and away from the Freight Cars themselves with this thread, I think that it is worthwhile here unless STMFC is about making random

Gene-- IMHO, there is no one STMFC distribution model that can be universally applied by all STMFC modellers. Each has its own merits. But it's said that when the only tool that one has is a

Very timely, albeit possibly off-topic, question. Just a couple of days ago I went to the state archives and library and yours was one of the questions I researched. In addition to Sanborn maps and

Charlie Vlk wrote: I'd agree that when this happens mindlessly, it's a bad feature, but there ARE leased or assigned cars which DO cycle back and forth as loads and empties. Many tank cars are in

Wow! A bunch of responses quickly. I haven't been able to find Sanborn maps for Warren Pa. Corry Pa, Youngsville, Titusville Pa. etc yet. If these response get far from steam era freight cars please

Tim wrote: It was outbound from Merced Falls/the YV and was considered essential to the war effort...they shipped 115 carloads in the first months of 1944. I don't know where it went. Switch lists

Brian, I quick search on Amazon came up with these three that looked like pretty good places to start:

SCCX photo located here: http://www.trainweb.org/chris/lakewhatcom.html Brian Ehni

Many of these towns had a When I started on collecting information on the Bagnell Branch I came across a commerically published regional map that listed all the stores and businesses. There were a

All, I'm trying to locate photos of Shell Oil Co. tank cars, in particular cars lettered SCCX, SCMX, and SNHX. These would be cars in the steam era. Any leads on sources would be appreciated. Also

Jack was the zinc inbound, or outbound? If outbound, do you know where it went? I suppose if inbound in a Milwaukee gondola then it could have come from Idaho... and if it was inbound, what industry

Bulk oil dealers - try Sanborn maps, telephone books/yellow pages. ---------------------------------------------------------------- J. Stephen (Steve)

I hope the Mike will allow mw a little latitude here since this group is often a source of wide ranging information. I am looking for an avenue to determine what retail gasoline stations operated in

Gene wrote: That is exactly correct Gene, especially for railroads like the YV and others that didn't have "through" traffic. Some of that "better information" is obviously photos and there are