Allen Rueter wrote: Not a bad idea, Allen, but given the sort of data we have I would be entertained to see a calculation of the Standard deviation . . . But I take your point, that

Stop off cars also handled thing like appliances, farm machinery, etc. ______________ J. Stephen (Steve) Sandifer mailto:steve.sandifer@... Home: 12027 Mulholland Drive, Meadows Place, TX

It seems to me you might want four pools of cars. home road pool, favored/connecting interchange pool, National pool common cars , and national pool rare cars(<1%). you would want at least one

In the past five year I have heard this kind of thinking only once when cars were so short you prayed for an empty and it went like this, " sure the government says we have to give you a car, but

Folks, Like Viv, I'm out of my league in all this. My only real acquaintance with statistics is of the Mark Twain variety (i.e. lies). From what I read, my view is that if I don't have and can't get

Ross McLeod wrote: Sure, Ross, but the FIRST RULE is to "Protect the shipment." You could not care less about car hire if a shipper needs that empty car. Now of course you don't keep empties

"Exactly right, VIv, and that's in fact the entire basis of why the G-N idea can be true: you used what you had if you were short of cars, REGARDLESS of the AAR rules, and that available empty could

Ross and all, Let's not forget that car hire was mostly a paper exchange unless you were really out of balance and remember if you don't have a car to load you don't have the revenue stream. The

"The railroad term would "stop off to partially unload". Freight rate would be for the entire weight of the commodity from origin to final destination, with a stop off charge for each stop off

Viv, I think you might have missed out on the Car Service rules, published in the ORER. Those rules indicate what cars should be used for loading. To simplify, they

Viv Brice wrote: Exactly right, VIv, and that's in fact the entire basis of why the G-N idea can be true: you used what you had if you were short of cars, REGARDLESS of the AAR rules, and that

Howdy Here is an update on the distribution of box and auto cars on the UP between Laramie and Rawlins in 1938, with tables that show the cars classified by the ICC region of the owners. This

Guys, I'm getting confused - I have no experience in this area and can only comment on what I read, with great interest I might add, on this incredibly knowledgeable list. I might also be totally out

Dennis: The railroad term would "stop off to partially unload". Freight rate would be for the entire weight of the commodity from origin to final destination, with a stop off charge for each stop

Hi Dave, I'm only seeing 1913 and 1917 in Google Books, and none at Internet Archive. Can you provide a direct link? Ray Breyer

Just a slight correction. Technically, this isn't LCL. LCL is when multiple SHIPPERS have small loads in the same car. In the case of this carload of lumber, it's one shipper serving multiple

I'm stumped. Why would there be no lumber on flat cars in Oct-Dec of 1951? Was this the time period after the Streamliner accident (a piece of lumber shifted on a flat car, and broke the windows of a

After several days of reading various views on the value of the G-N hypothesis AS FAR AS PROVIDING A GUIDE FOR BUILDING A BOX CAR FLEET, I think the following applies...not unlike Charlie Vlk's

Gentlemen: There are two general arrangement drawings listed on eBay for the D&RGW. Series 22200-22249 built 1951 with bulkheads for canister service (the set includes a 8x10 photo), Item

Ron, the late CGW X29 style cars I have on the computer are all 87000s with Coil-Elliptic trucks. Clark Propst