Thank you Chuck.Quite a sizeable amount of coal for such a small road.Armand Premo

1949 Moody's says the Rutland received 244,395 tons of anthracite and 176,529 tons of bituminous. For some reason a few of the New England railroads reported in tonnage rather than car

Al,       All the photos I have seen are of N&W, and VGN 2, or 3 pocket hoppers with bottom doors. No gonds are present. The unloading was gravity, no dumpers. I wish I knew more about the RR's

The Roundhouse milk car is based on the 1928 MDT Pfaudler car. Drawings for this car are available througth the NYCHS. I have a couple of the cars but have never taken the time to check them

Ben, I have submitted a photo (pending moderator approval) of just the car corner and bracket - it seems clear to me that this is not the same as the old T plate shown on the Atlas web site for both

Thanks folks!!! Actually, it it is Al . . . . . water.kresse address came from the German word for water crest . . . kress. I presume the N&W coal cars to Wheeling had to be hopper cars . . . .

--- Schuyler Larrabee wrote: ===================== Before there is confusion, be aware the article concerned the Western Reserve Historical Society, as it related to notice posted here of the NYC

No you didn't, and yes I was. A very wise policy. However, screen shots don't give much info to critique, kind of like the pix posted of the Atlas model that's being discussed. They show enough to

I just got my flyer about the Naperville meet and Sunshine's 2010 production schedule. Right at the top, "The 16th and Final" Prototype Modelers Seminar! Scott Chatfield

Tim's put me on the hot spot to respond to this, I guess. The ELHS (including a lot of DL&W and some NYS&W material) WAS at the U of Akron. We were there for over ten years. We were obliged to

The ELHS archives as well as the NKPHTS archives are at Cleveland State University. Some EL stuff still has to be moved. Brian Carlson On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:30:40 -0400, Tim O'Connor wrote

The photo I posted in the photos section, from the 1937 CBCyc p460, shows 129534. The photo of 128436 is from RMC, 9-89, p56. The photo of 129529 is from MRG, 6-88, p17. None of these cars is listed

Dave Evans wrote: "I am posting a photo of the Atlas test shot taken Friday. Looks like the tooling has been upgraded, and it seems to address several of the criticisms leveled below: - Riveted

Walt,         The PRR movd 100's of these car to the Wheling steel mill in Steubenville, OH. Those more knowledgeable than I confirmed they came from the Columbus area, and returned the same

I vaguely recall the Erie archives (or some of it) is at the University of Akron (?) Ohio. Maybe some NYC fans in the Cleveland area could see about relocating the NYC archives?

Dennis, hi, Uh, you know, I didn't make the comment about cost and doing it right? (Or, maybe you're using my example to clarify a point about the other poster's comment?) Terrific post because of

Tim,         I do not have stats for your question. I would like to mention that 1000's of B&O cars were moved by PRR. These were connected in Md, WVa,PA, and OH. Trains of them went to the

Eric Hansmann wrote: The scary part of the Plain Dealer story is the line, ". . . the society is also culling parts of its vast collection . . ." and we have to hope that the railroad parts are

Gee, Dennis, the problem with the "hand grenade" style of criticism is that there tends to be collateral damage, you know? I think it is much better to just say what's wrong with which models, and let

Chuck Wow, I find it very interesting that almost 30% of B&O's coal traffic originated offline. So much for the theory of "captive" cars... Do you have any data for coal delivered to