Hi Excuse me for posting this question to both the STMFC- and DRGW-list. I have bought three Sunshine kits number 85.7 to build the D&RGW 36' double sheathed boxcar. I have some problems building

The times quoted in the Keystone article must be referring to the late 60's. That is when the FW-8 departed Chicago at 1:00 AM. From the 1952 freight train schedules and make-up of trains the

Tim, PFtW&C = Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago = PRR PCC&StL = Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis = PRR Panhandle route Rich Orr

Tim, I doubt that any of these tracks belong to the PRR (although I could be wrong). If the location is NJ, then it must be somewhere in the north/west parts of Joisey, due to the hills. Location

Tim, I can help with two PCC&StL - Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad PFW&C - Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Both of these were part of PRR Lines

Dave Evans wrote: You seem to be assuming that shippers all signed a 36-hour waiver. Many insisted on the 28-hour rule, which was in force unless the SHIPPER decided otherwise. Tony Thompson

I would think livestock from Belt railway and IHB were likely stock that did not pass through the Union Stock yard. I could not find info on other Chicago area stock yards that RR's may have had

Black Cat has sets with CPR locations in various year brackets.12 different locations and every month (60) of the 1/2 decade. 1955-1959 1950-1954 1945-1949 Other years and scales available as special

Do the tracks on the left also belong to PRR? Are there tracks on the other side of the river? My guess is that is has to be somewhere in Pennsylvania, given the terrain. That long ridge in the

I had Rail Graphics print me re-weigh decals, for my road, in the correct years. He did it as an add on to some other sets I was doing, so I guess they were "free". However, I haven't heard from Ron

I thought we established that some of these yards were places where the ranchers would sell their stock to distributors, and they might even remain in the these yards for a while to fatten up on

Bruce, The Keystone article shows a scheduled transit time of 21:30 from the time stock cars were due to be delivered to the PRR's 55th street yard in Chicago, so cars could interchanged to FW-8

Dan Holbrook wrote: "Based on interviews with Car Distributors I worked with, these locations had livestock "reloading", both resting, feed lot and resales, besides the associated meat packing. As

Dan Holbrook wrote: I don't understand these statements. The minimum resting time was 5 hours, and animals could not be reloaded into dirty cars or with old bedding. If I understand the rules

Hi Jonathan Most of the photos of CP's 48' cars I have seen are of cars re-numbered into work service and I lack a way of tracking the original car numbers of cars in work service. Can anyone help

The photo is posted, at: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-03-30-11/PRR_freight_yard_1942+edit.jpg This is a page from the EL list at railfan.net, a pretty active list. After the

We must not forget that a lot of livestock was finished, ie fattened for market, in the Midwest. Market ready livestock was loaded at stockpens in areas that by-passed Chicago and had connections to

Rich, Mather apparently conformed with AAR standards of that period, which were 9" for reporting marks, 7" for numbers, 4" for end reporting marks and numbers, 3" for weight data, and 2" for

Dave, Based on interviews with Car Distributors I worked with, these locations had livestock "reloading", both resting, feed lot and resales, besides the associated meat packing. As such, during

Allen, I just accessed it with Mozilla and Safari Rich Orr