In my reply to Eldon I missed his notation of significant steel cars. Disregard my Southern SU inclusion, as it is a DS wood sheathed car. Eric Eric Hansmann Chagrin Falls, Ohio Starting over in a

Was there a preferred type of coal desired for home heating . . . especially after automatic stokers became popular in th mid-30s? Al Kresse

Ray How about posting the kitbash photo to the STMFC files? I'm interested to see it. Tim O'Connor

Mike, All valid points. One other piece of data that may (please note I said may!) affect the percentage numbers. The N&W didn't serve Norfolk, the N&P BL did. I have no idea if cars delivered to the

Captive Fleet doesn't equal Tidewater Bunker coal service only.  Relative to the C&O, N&W and Virginian, all in 1909 were primarily concerned about getting coal to Tidewater, but the Virginian was

I happen to have RPC #18 at my side that covers these cars. These are the as-built quantities. B&O M-26 - 2000 B&O M-26A - 3500 B&O M-26B - 1000 B&O M-26C - 1000 B&O M-26D - 5500 B&O M-26E -

Hi Mont, You're talking with possibly the ONLY P&E steam modeler in the country! Half of my new layout will be Bloomington in 1949. I'll have at least one of my beasts at Jim Six's shindig in April

Mont, you meant to write PS-3 right? Yes, of course you did. :-) Tim

Ray,   I too would like to model P&E (Peoria & Eastern) hoppers from the 1950's era.  I've studied the NYC diagrams since that is where most of the P&E fleet came from with no luck.    I can tell

Marty, IIRC, Mike pointed out early in this thread, that more N&W coal went to the lakes, via interchange, than went to tidewater. Hardly "all home road", but also fairly restricted. In modeling

Marty McGuirk writes: " Isn't it possible, or even probable, that although the C&O and N&W had large fleets of hoppers such a great percentage of those fleets were in essentially "captive" service

Elden, There were roughly 48,000 having the type of R-3/4 IDN ends used from 1948 to 1954 and another 22,000 built from 1955-1960 having the later style R-3/4 IDN ends with more tapered major

Folks; All the talk on the list lately focusing on numerous car types that have never had good models done of them got me to thinking about what folks know, or might not. There has a lot of

Ray, I have photos of NYC/P&LE ext-post triples in the 1960's. These cars are available from Stewart and the models were produced in NYC and P&LE paint schemes. They were built in the 1950's. Tim

Marty, the hoppers probably spent 80-90% of their time on home rails. I think this has already been pointed out. But that doesn't mean the N&W and C&O cars were "uncommon" on other railroads. I've

Hi Elden, Let me get this out in the open right away: I'm NOT an"expert" on NYC hoppers. I'm just a noisy P&E modeler who knows that he needs something like 20 of these cars to replicate loads coming

Ed, Thanks for catching that.? I left those off the list I posted.? There are other lots for which the Kadee is close but not exact. Rich Orr

Elden, Kadee has seen the hopper photos in the NYC color guide book. No P&LE cars match the Kadee open hopper model. The offset twins (4000-4999) had an inside length of 31'-6" like many of the NYC

Elden, My primary source for information on NYC freight cars in addition to one friend is http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-MODELS-FREIGHT.htm This is a comprehensive list of NYC freight cars

I have just uploaded a P&LE hopper roster in the files section. The file name is *P&LE hoppers.pdf* On the P&LE the most common hopper in the early 1950s was the USRA design triple hopper available