I have seen from letters in my railroads files - icing reports called up for investigations of produce gone bad. One I recall was produce gone bad and the icing reports from all the railroads who

The Lehigh Valley May 1932 ORER lists 30 hoppers (#s50000 to 50029) as “Special Type, Steel Hatchway Roof, Hop. Bot.” with LO designation. The series shows up in July 1931 ORER as “Cement,

I take your point, Tim, but Erie from Chicago to New York had far smaller claims; B&O to its eastern cities had distinctly lower claims than PRR. If it was just a question of "who delivered it," they

I have on my roster an ERIE covered hop;per that predatges WWII. This is a samaller car and is the same car that Gene Diemling did in MR back in tghe 70's. This thread reminded me that I have never

Well if that is true Tim, then the drovers or whomever was assigned to watch these livestock were not doing their job. The railroads could contest the claims and ask for an investigation also. Jim

Dave, A whole bunch of 1940-1944 tank car pieces and parts. Not too interesting. But with production list I could at least start to figure out whose cars they were used on. Mark Landgraf

True, but I've always wondered if the PRR didn't just get stuck with thebill because so much of the perishables TERMINATED on the PRR after relativelyshort hauls. After all if the produce deep inside

Indeed the construction continued through World War II. There is a huge collection of photos on Facebook of the 1942 construction (over railroad yards and several mainlines) of a huge new bridge over

Interesting. When I was in school 18.7 compared to 11.3 showed that 18.7 was 65.3% larger. But then I never understood the new math. Tim O'Connor

Dave The ITC was a small railroad -- the Law of Large Numbers applies. A small road can experience a 100% increase from 1 carload to 2 carloads. So yes I'm sure there was some local phenomenom (I

A number of volumes are held by the UC system here in California. I have a daughter in the UC system right now and have asked her to request some .pdf copies for me. It'll be a while before she's

OK, that helps, Bill. Now I see how the 1923 and 1924 versions compare. And I think I see, from Ben's posted drawings how the 1924 compares to 1928. But can someone explain the terms "inside" and

Tony remembered the UP cars very accurately. There were 100 cars in class CH-70-1 built by GATC in 1940. These may be modeled in HO with the Intermountain 1,958 cu-ft LO. Regards, -Jeff

What kinds of drawings are you scanning? Dave Nelson Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 8:22 AM Subject: [STMFC] GATX Production List Hi, I am currently dealing with scanning a bunch of

Dave Evans wrote: Maybe because many shippers using reefers avoided the PRR as much as possible, using instead the Erie, NKP and to some extent B&O. And NYC was nearly as bad as PRR for

Hi Dave, Based on what Doug Harding posted, I don't think that I will have to dig on my own! The data clearly shows that while the tonnage might not have dropped all that much overall, the

With the help of my friend John King (and a 2x4) I am now clear about the differences between Red Caboose kits #7002 and 7003 and I have included John's photos of each in B&W and color to help anyone

Following the alert that there is a new post on the relatively new modeling blog, I want to remind folks that Eric Hansmann and Frank Hodina have issued an invitation for submissions to the Resin Car

Another interesting post has hit the Resin Car Worksblog. Charlie Duckworth summarizeshis work on a classic Frisco single-sheathed box car he built from a SunshineHO scale resin kit. Check it out

Dale what I posted is from a chart that was part of a usda document I found a number of years ago when I was researching meat packing and livestock facilities. The data posted is what I put on a