Larry Kline wrote: Man! That's a lot of piles! Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510)

Correction: Simmons-Boardman currently sells the Encyclopedia of North American Railroads, published by Indiana Univ. Press http://www.transalert.com/cgi-bin/details.cgi?inv=BKENARR&cat=19 Its

Rob Kirkham wrote: A question: what is the Handbook of American Railroads - that's a new one to me. Is it analogous to the ORER? Published how frequently? The Handbook of American Railroads, by

Thanks Larry! Apart from the PRR, my impression - just scanning through the numbers - is that by incorporating the Canadian numbers (which are obviously underrepresented by fleet size, reflecting the

Rob Kirkham wrote: Its an interesting document both for how it correlates and how it does not. I don't suppose you have another version that incorporates the (controversial?) Canadian railway

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /Compare box car counts N Amer RRs - Charles

Eric, Thanks. I went through a goodly portion of the images searched under railroad and coal. Mostly 50-ton hops and gons. It would be interesting to know which plants these larger cars were

Hi Larry, Its an interesting document both for how it correlates and how it does not. I don't suppose you have another version that incorporates the (controversial?) Canadian railway equipment? I

For all of you who like the other end of the train. Dwight Jones has just released another in his series of books about cabooses. This one is about DT&I Cabooses. 88 pages of history and many

I just posted a table in the files section file that compares expected and actual counts of boxcars by railroad in the NMRA Charles collection. The file name is _Compare box car counts US RRs -

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /Compare box car counts US RRs - Charles

I uploaded a document in the FILES section titled "Unknown Foundry Symbols". I know there are many on here who have examined such marks on trucks, couplers, and other hardware and might have photos

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A slight warning about using the digest system. Often a member using the digest does not, apparently, see an ADMIN message that, for example, might terminate or note that a thread has moved out of

Al Kresse wrote: I'm looking for pictures of C&O 100000-100999 series high capy gons in the yards, in the coal fields, or at the coal docks taken between 1921 and 1946. I have builders and tech

When I received STMFC list postings under digest, messages came in bundles of up to 25, sometimes twice a day if message traffic was heavy. Messages were bundled as they were received. I find it

Possibly the best example of Canadian empties not being returned after being unloaded in the US was the cars of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway (reporting marks TEM). The 566-mile road had

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