Jared If you would contact me of list I would send you a roster of the USRA DS boxcars. Al Smith Smithal9@...

Tim, A couple of errors in your post. GN series 24994-25993 were not USRA design boxcars, as Todd Sullivan has pointed out, but "USRA clones" (how can clones be different?) with differences in the

Tim, You have me there. I should have said, "if it wasn't important for the number of cars in a series to be accurate, why was it tracked in the ORER?" My response was in reply to George

I worked the Northern Pacific Company of Oregon - Car Distributor Clerk position for 2 weeks in December 1961, and I used the ORER every day to check car capacities, length, and special features while

And in January 1952, the ORER showed 1343 cars in series GN 23494-24993 (USRA DS originals) and 872 cars in series GN 24994-25993 (USRA DS clones with 7/8 dreadnought ends). Todd Sullivan

Indeed, what happened after WWII was a mass migration of heavy industryaway from the eastern states (where industry had originally developed) to"greenfield" developments everywhere else. If you follow

Thanks Paul. Jared Harper

Bill. Thanks! Jared Harper

Thanks Al. Jared Harper

---In STMFC@..., <blindog@...> wrote : I should also like to point out that just because a group of older cars is listed in the ORER doesn't mean they actually in service. News reports from the late

Bob I'll give an example of why this was definitely IMPORTANT to know -some number series had ZERO cars. Who suggested that knowing how many carsthere were is unimportant? :-) Also in many sparsely

FYI, there were still 25 GN USRA DS's in revenue service in 1965. In 1959there were 790 cars in two groups 23494-24993 (347 cars) and 24994-25993 (443cars). Many of them were rebuilt with steel sides

---In STMFC@..., <gn2059@...> wrote : I'll take a contrary position: If the number of cars in service wasn't important to know, why was there a column for it in the ORER? It would seem to me the GN

Jared, et al--- I was surprised to find that Great Northern had 23866 still running in 'hide service' in the early 1960s. This would be a suitable late running example of the USRA DS boxcar. A

I have two sets of Speedwitch decals for sale, D126 AC&F Type 11 tank cars--Mobilgas and Mid-Continent Petroleum $3.00 and D109 UTLX Tank Cars (Set 1) $5.00. This is half price. Add a $1.00 for

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The Wabash had them but they were getting towards the end of there lives in the early fifties.Paul Doggett UK Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

Not sure what your modeling date is Jared but I know the Great Northern had many of these in pretty much as-built form except for "AB" brake update. Bill Welch

Jared – Go to the Westerfield Models web page and check out the photos ofthe USRA DS box cars pictured there. I don’t know if the decals are soldseparately, but if they are, you’ll get correct

I have an F&C 3051/3061 flat 40' USRA DS boxcar kit. The label says I can model a B&M or Rock Island car. Were there other roads that had cars like these that could model using this