Kurt Laughlin wrote: Dunno about yards but the ICC data on percent of home road house cars on home rails showed a clear relationship between more home road cars at home when economic times were bad

For freight cars not being used there is a need for storage tracks. It is very likely that part of a yard would be used for storage but only for that owning railroad's freight cars. Sometimes cars

To expand on what has been said, Storage yards full of HOME road cars. - in some cases, older cars, ready for retirement/scrap Modeled by including scrapping scenes, white-lined cars, trees growing

Kurt, That probably depended upon the road and its economic circumstances. Some lines might have cleared out older, less useful cars by sale or scrapping to avoid having to pay taxes on equipment not

It would depend on the yard, Kurt. Classification yards would probably be somewhat less busy, reflecting the downturn in traffic. On the other hand, a storage yard might be full of cars; I have

More cars idle on little used tracks, slower turn on RIP tracks of home cars. Jim Fellows

What is the thinking on how a frieght yard would look during a period of economic downturn? Would there be more cars, less cars, or no change? KL

Jon, As you know I've built your two humper. I must say I had to laugh at the instructions sometimes...When I wasn't scratching my head : ) Clark Propst MC IA

Mr. A.T. Kott, Thanks for the clarifications.  I found two images of C&IM 7199 in my 1937 CBC (overhead interior and near side view).  The interior shot clearly shows the Murphy style ribs.  The

Dave,Not wishing to continue beating a dead horse,but did your research reveal any regional biases or seasonal variances ?Armand Premo

Anthony Thompson wrote: Whoops! Got my Tim buddies mixed up. Tim Gilbert and I worked on the distribution hypothesis. Tim Muir (who is also a STMFC member) does high detail 3d cad models of steam

Dave Nelson wrote: Surely you mean Tim Gilbert? Or is this someone else? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Charlie Vlk wrote: And so we did. Charlie, when I developed the hypothesis I did not have any wheel reports but with the understanding that a good set of such documents would either confirm or

My apologies for the poor choice of words used to title the document I sent to Mike Brock covering the Steel Fleet owned and operated by the FGE/WFE/BRE/NX companies. Initiailly when I created it I

I noticed the obsolete version of the Sunshine kit list in the Files area a few days ago and deleted it. I thought everyone knew about the website by now. I was wrong. I do feel that when someone puts

Jim That is magic Cheers Barry

Jon: I ordered several cars from you at last years Naperville Sunshine Models Show. Two single dome and one double dome tank cars. I have opened the double dome kit and the decals are not in the

Here it is! http://www.sunshinekits.com/ Jim Brewer Glenwood MD

Barry, Go to Steamfreightcars.com. The latest all-time list of Sunshine kits is there in either PDF or Excel format. Jim Hayes listed in March. Tom Olsen 7 Boundary Road, West Branch Newark,

The Sunshine list appears to have disappeared from the Files. Is there any particular reason for this, or Yahoo being Yahoo. Barry Bennett