Jack Burgess wrote: Group, Jack is TOTALLY spot-on here. There has been some recent discussion about the new MicroMark rivets, and their very reasonable pricing. I do a lot of scratch and custom

This is a discussion that will be endless.First of all the area being modeled is the most important factor in determining car mix.The ORER has divided the country into various regions.One is most

And lest this seem like an arcane topic of interest only to UP and SP modelers, let me observe that you have a comparable issue with the IGN relative to MoPac, the PM relative to C&O, and even the

And split ART between MP and Wabash... Jerry Glow

Then you would need to add the SFRD to the ATSF and the FGEX to all the member roads. Rich Orr

Unfortunately they were already out of production 15+ years ago when Terry Wegmann made a short run (33 kits) of one piece bodies based on a revised Sunshine

Only if you add half of the PFE fleet to each . Otherwise you are counting the PFE fleet twice. Rich Orr

Sunshine resin kit would probably do. Jerry Michels

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There is also NYC-Modeler. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYC-Modeler/ Freight cars are sometimes discussed on this group. Paul Seattle, WA

Please keep in mind that it is not the purpose of a dictionary to coin new terms, but rather explain terms that have come into common usage. As such, they lag behind the language. It would appear

See the following link - this photo was taken in Lewiston, Me., on the Grand Trunk (NEL): http://www.sullboat.com/lewiston1956_caboose77895.jpg The caboose was leased to the GT(NEL) in 1956,

I agree and in playing with the sheet ordered the fleet by column E (boxcars) and compared each road's numbers to total boxcars. Try it - you'll be amazed at the results. Jerry Glow

Are we doing all of this AGAIN? The "population tables" are most useful for figuring out the proper mix of box cars and reefers on class 1 railroad mainlines, excepting whatever "home road" is being

mike brock wrote: Depends a bit on what you're trying to show. In my bar chart (posted on my blog) I graphed PFE as a separate bar from SP and UP (and BTW a pretty respectable fleet all by

Yes, the Navy did have box cars and at least one Helium car (for blimps I think?). Will send to you direct in a separate email. You find the car numbers and other info in any ORER. I will send a

Tony Thompson writes: Yes, but doesn't it make sense to add PFE cars to the UP...and SP...numbers? Certainly such cars were extremely important to UP and SP and, of course, there is the ownership

Richard Hendrickson notes: Being one who models west of the Mississippi, I concor with Richard's point. However, for those modeling east of that river, hoppers play a significant role...even more

These are the decals for the last two shake and take Cocoa beach RPM kits. Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga, NY From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf

Hmm ... it sounds as though one might define a "deep" fishbelly as being consistent with both definitions, and a "shallow" fishbelly as consistent with only the less restrictive one. Can that be