A while back James Dick of the NP Historical Society sent me copies of a bunch of 1920's era correspondence from the NP files (some of it concerned Soo Line cars and was of interest to me) concerning

Sherman? On the old main line -- before the Harriman cutoff was built? I'm puzzled -- the UP ran COSF, Overland, Fast Mail, COLA, Challenger, COStL, Portland Rose at least -- 7 daily passenger

I'm looking at the first train listing, it gives train # etc -- 566 (Laramie) to 683 (Rawlins) -- so this is a westbound correct? Tim O'

Elden, Thanks for expanding my knowledge about this. I really enjoy learning more about grain and flour operations. Regards, -Jeff Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 4:51 AM To:

frgreene290@... writes: Frank, The AAR mechanical designation was not required on cars in interchange until January 1, 1959. On and after that date all cars built new, rebuilt or

Tim O'Connor writes: Why? Well, I can understand the curiosity factor but, in my case, I don't really care why...except as an academic exercise. It might be analogous to the UP grey paint scheme on

Hi Tim The actual percentage of SP cars from the ORER in 1938 is 3.3%, not the 4% you assume. There are 1,308 non-UP box cars, which I believe is the relevant number, not your 2,400. This gives an

Tim O'Conner writes: I think it's worth some digging down and trying to find out WHY SP box cars were so much more common on the UP than random distribution would predict. Uhh, Tim have you looked at

Ron, are you modeling the CGW where you would need several of these car or do you just want one of two? If you needed 10 or 12 of them then, yes, I'd go for typical. If you only want 1 or 2 then I'd

Jeff; I don't know if it was common, but I have seen an awful lot of cars with powdered flour all over them, like a powdered doughnut almost. I once asked a guy that worked in a bakery (a BIG one),

Mike, Tim O'connor wrote this, not me. You'll have to ask him where it comes from. Larry Ostresh Laramie, Wyoming

Paul-- I'm afraid that this may turn into a tangential discussion, but here we go. Yard limits were an operating rules provision only, applying to main track per operating Rule 93. Definition from

Mike, the data Mark gave me is not a conductor book. It is a listing of the passenger and freight trains that passed Sherman on June 4 and 5, 1949. Their were 16 EB and 15 WB on the 4th, 17 EB and

Tim, why don't you just look at the 1951 book yourself and tell us what you find? Scanned pages and an Excel transcription are online at www.laramiedepot.org Why are the 1938 books

Denis, A gondola is good for a wood rack? How's that? Did I miss something? The cars I'm talking about are pulpwood cars... John Degnan Scaler164@...

Greg Martin wrote: The account I was given for the 1950s identified the bill of lading as filled out by the shipper, but the waybill prepared by the agent--often without complete rate info as

Mike Ok, you're wearing me down :-) I dismiss the 1938 books as irrelevant, but if you show a consistency from 1949-1956 then I think it's worth some digging down and trying to find out WHY SP box

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim, I showed example of an Empty Car Bill in my article in the Dec. 2009 RMC. You can see that there. It is entirely different from a waybill and was used by many roads

Thanks Paul, this is very interesting stuff. Would be fun to try to incorporate into model operations. Tim O'Connor

Larry Ok, you have 120 trains, 7000 cars, 2400 box cars right? Or 20 box cars per train (on average)? Here's a simple, straightforward probability calculation -- Let's say 4 out of 100 box cars is