Tim, According to the NRHS website TRAX was first added in 4/54 by ART. http://www.nrhs.com/reporting_marks/aar_reporting_marks.htm Rich Orr

Joel, Marty remarked on the Central Vermont's newsprint operation. For several years I have been reading the Boston & Maine list, too (BM_RR). If you search the archives there, can't imagine you

I have just posted a copy of the brake arrangement drawing for the 50-ton, twin AAR Standard hopper car in the photo section. Unfortunately, I didn't copy the 70-ton version, but it should follow the

C. 1952   Was much newsprint produced in the US? Or had it's production moved to Canada? Paul Catapano [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

All of the photos I have show it running down the right side of the car. (The right side of the car is on the right when you're looking at the "B" end of the car.) Bob Karig

Rob: The LA Times had/has many plants in the greater LA Basin. Each used for a different purpose. The main paper with the news was only printed at the main downtown plant where all of the

Greg: Bondmen's trailers were all flat bed with steel decks. All rolls were loaded eye to the sky and bilge (eye to the side). No tie down was used; the trailers had a set of 2" pipes that set

Joel, Published statistics show that in 1950 Canadian railways originated a total of 3,599,329 tons of newsprint. A majority of this would have been exported to U.S. customers in 40' boxcars of CNR,

Tim: The forklift had its own transport and did not follow each load to the plant; it stayed at the unloading dock until all cars were unloaded. This forklift had pneumatic tires not the hard

Tony: You are correct. Paul C. Koehler _____ From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of Anthony Thompson Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:08 AM To:

Greg: The cars used were in captive newsprint service and yes they did have very smooth and good floors. The Dock was just a normal concrete dock. Once the rolls were lifted in the car it went

Hi, John.   I have a question for you.  Gary Wright is putting a Seaboard Gondola out and I would like to do an article for the SAL, SCL modeler magazine. I am trying to hook up with him for

That must have been a sight to see... a truck backing up to a box car and the fork lift manuvering around with 5,000lb paper rolls through the 6' opening of a box car (in 1948)! At least they

Clark Propst wrote Yes Depends on the prototype. I have photos showing train air on either side of open hoppers. Your photo could be showing either the R side of the car or the L side, since it's a

A great deal of newsprint was shipped into the Northeastern U. S. from Canada via the Central Vermont and then to the New Haven. Several times per week a "Paper Train" ran down from Lowell, MA on

Does the train line run along the outside of the frame on a AAR offset 3 bay hopper? (Like Stewart/Bowser and Accurail) If so, on which side of the car. I have a 3/4 photo of one car taken from the A

Greetings, In Augusta, Georgia, until the late 1960's the local papers (both owned by the same corporation by then) received boxcars of newsprint direct to the printing plant. The cars in later

Isn't there a huge rail-served Times printing plant in Santa Ana or Costa Mesa, visible just north of the I-405? When I was switching on the UP back in the late 70s-early 80s, a midnight job would

Tim said, "Newsprint is delivered directly to printing plants. The rolls are way too big and heavy for transloading at team tracks." And Andy answered, "Not so fast, Tim. For many years the

In the 1950s trains south from Canada were 100+ cars with newsprint and other products either from Canada or from the far west through Chicago.As late as 2005 Central Vermont cars with newsprint