Thanks so much Ian! Just what I needed. Bill

Richard Hendrickson wrote: "Railroads that followed that practice included the Santa Fe, Great Northern, Union Pacific, Chicago & Northwestern, Rio Grande, Rock Island, New York Central, Grand

I'm missing the July & October 1945 issues, but the others show: FGEX or FOBX 775-799 not listed (4/45), ... (1/46) FGEX 4000-4174 1 (10/44) FGEX or FOBX 4000-4174 6 (1/45), 56 (4/45), 175

Here you go Bill... BREX 5000-5059 ... (1/57), 24 (4/57), 60 (7/57), 60 (10/57), 60 (1/58) BREX 5060-5069 ... (1/57), ... (4/57), 10 (7/57), 10 (10/57), 10 (1/58) FGEX 10000-10099 ... (1/57),

Gentlemen: Until I can add FGE/WFE/BRE/NX pages for the 1957 (and probably 1958) ORER's, I would like some more help related to my Cocoa Beach Presentation with a few series of 50-foot

Dennis Storzek wrote: Sure, it was a cheaper way to obtain stock cars vs. new cars, but not because of the taxes. That's what Richard pointed out and I was just agreeing with him. Tony

Richard Hendrickson wrote: "Railroads that followed that practice included the Santa Fe, Great Northern, Union Pacific, Chicago & Northwestern, Rio Grande, Rock Island, New York Central, Grand

Except for something as rough and crude as a stockcar, it was still advantageous to rebuild a car and capitalize a small amount rather than capitalize the larger cost of a new car. The math likely no

But in the '60s, not during the period covered by this list, n'est ce pas? Richard Hendrickson

And Seaboard ... Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

And PRR and B&O... Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/index.pl/bruce_f._smith2 "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard is entirely right. It was in late 1948 that the IRS changed considerably the regulations about rebuilt cars, no longer allowing the cost of rebuilding them to

A plausible speculation, Doug, with one exception: by the 1950s, the tax laws no longer made it advantageous to rebuild older cars rather than buying new ones. However, the practice of replacing

Doug Harding's report is invaluable, and it surely caused a lot of recall about my own family's experiences with cattle shipping from Ida Grove, IA, on the CNW's Carroll - Onawa-Sioux City line, the

Actually, the Milwaukee double panel roofs did not have seam caps. The up turned edges of each panel were welded together. The roof panels were galvanized and possibly allowed to weather naturally

Jerry, You touched on a problem. Manufacturers have not yet caught up with our new found sophistication about hand brakes. I have identified over 300 different hand brake models. Some are different

Of course I forgot to mention that their is a picture of one of the HPAX cars in Richard Hendrickson's and Edward Kaminski's Billboard Refrigerator Car book. On page 170 is HPAX 975 which is a reefer

In my January 1945 ORER are the following cars for Hunter Packing (HPAX): Series: 1000 to 1060 Type: Refrigerator IL: 33' 0" (between ice tanks, bulkheads in place) IW: 8' 3" IH: 6' 11" OL: 42'

I beleve Martin's instructions to build the StlB&M gondola from his MP kit and mini-kit, that it had a Perfection handbrake but not much information was available at the time I built mine

Tom, let me speculate: the CGW saw potential loads if they could provide cars. Their stockcars dated from the teens or 20's and were worn out or rotting away. The CGW had surplus single sheathed wood