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Tony,   Thanks for the info.  So if I'm reading you right and assuming Tim's data (about 25000 cars per 3 months or about 275 cars / day through Bieber), then the total SP traffic would be about 10

Al Daumann wrote: Redding has the complication that although SP moved most traffic on the Cascade Line, diverging at Black Butte, it did continue in 1947 to move a fair proportion (maybe a

Picked up a flyer at a local train show today that True Line Trains is doing 8-Hatch reefers, due in 2010. They are mentioned in the TLT website new but just artwork renderings. The 8 hatch reefers

Tim,   Very interesting data to me, since I'm modeling a freelanced railroad that interchanges with both the GN and WP at Bieber in the late 1940s.  If your extrapolation is correct, the 24,700 cars

Tim, I've seen (on paper) and ignored the seam scraper in the past. Looking at it again after your reccomendation made me look again. I think I have a use for it right now on my bench. Jim

Frank Valoczy wrote: Probably means nothing in terms of Frank's abolishment/divestiture, but I photographed a CRP 70-ton flatcar at Colfax, CA, waiting in an eastbound freight in January 1959. The

Tim, I made several mistakes: not finding the HH Copeland report, a definiative source, was #1. Typing w/o first refreshing my memory was clearly #2. My bad. Dave Nelson

One of my favorite tools is this "seam scraper" from MicroMark. Actually, I use it as a REAMER. It is very sharp and pointed, and it can ream out very small holes and cuts through Delrin

Dave Nelson, I hope you're paying attention! :-) The list below is 247 cars, just 1/100 of the numbers (00-99). If the distribution of numbers is uniform (I know, fat chance) that would be 247*100 or

I believe AMB makes an acrylic grab iron bending jig with multiple sizes. Also Tichy includes jigs of various kinds in their kits such as ladder drilling jigs. My workspace is littered with jigs of

The flush end-nippers that Klein once made, and that PPE still supplies are the handiest off all tools for removing the bulk of cast- on molded detailing. By removing most of the "overburden" with

I don't know what RDY is, but CRP is Central of Pennsylvania, which was a subsidiary of Central of New Jersey for tax purposes. IIRC it was a court order in 1952(?) that forced CNJ to abolish the

Just one CN 47902 -- Allen Rueter StLouis MO

So not a single Canadian car moving on this line with a car number ending with either 01 or 02? Rob Kirkham -------------------------------------------------- Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:26

Cars through Bieber 1947 4th quarter ending 02 GN - 35 ATSF - 27 PFE - 23 DRGW - 21 WP - 13 SP - 12 UP - 10 PRR - 10 Milw - 10 NYC - 7 NP - 6 IC - 6 CRIP - 6 WFE - 5 MDT - 5 ART - 5 FGE - 5 Wab -

Well craps, these are the *01 cars, not *02

I have one of these benders and would like to sell it. Just don't need it.  Dennis Dennis Williams Munhall, Pa. www.resinbuilders4u.com

Schuyler, You need to buy the tool and you will see what I am talking about! It is not anywhere as simple as putting a piece of tape on a tapered nose pliers--which I also have in my toolbox. Paul

What is "misleading?" If you're making grabs with it, you need to know what the width is in full-size inch or metric measure, which isn't too terribly much to ask, or you can use your scale rule to