Box car "shortages" were a common complaint in the STMFC era. I am sure that a shortline near a major terminus like Portland OR or Seattle WA could receive a real dog's breakfast of empty cars from

Since the thickness of a resin car?side is never the exactly the same from one end to the other, even after sanded on a glass plate: and very seldom, if?ever,?are two ends exactly the same?width, I do

A while back I posted a compilation of a series of wheel reports for all northbound boxcar traffic from White River Junction, Vermont, on the CV (it's in the Files section

wrote: I still have a slab of "Eternit" an asbestos product used for water pipes, roofs and garden pots that came with my chemistry lab kit. That is still level. But also stored at a secret (I forgot

Jack, Do you have any data showing which cars arrived loaded and which were supplied by ATSF or SP for lumber loading? John King monthly?). obvious payments. tabulated twice have is cars on cars

Tim- Who are you calling ancient??? To this group, ancient would have to have wood, unsprung truck frames and operate on strap rail! The car is square in the middle of STMFC area!!! What are those

Are these the 0.05 " thick sided box cars (w/9 welded panels on each side of the door)?  PM 84000-84099 Feb 1940 P-S Mfg, Michigan city, IN?   Noted on diag sht has them titled as Light Wt Box C

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Wh0zXSQbo>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Wh0zXSQbo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/files/nw_210xxxx_gondola_mofw_green-paint_2009.jpg > Tim: How about

Anyone familiar with the AW Enterprises HO Scale brass 1940 Pullman Welded Box Car and can provide an opinion on its accuracy. Reading the archives it souns like this car is also called the PS-0.

I snagged and uploaded a JPEG of an old gondola from this Youtube video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Wh0zXSQbo>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Wh0zXSQbo It's a low side car and I was wondering

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 : /nw_210xxxx_gondola_mofw_green-paint_2009.jpg

While the odds of any particular small railroad's car (most likely a box car) would be on another, far-away, small railroad's tracks is probably too small to measure, I propose that the odds of any

Jack Burgess writes: "I wish I had more but what I have is for the period December 31, 1936 through March 31, 1937. The empty cars on hand on those reporting dates were: ATSF Box 14 GN Box 4 SP Box

Steve wrote: We talked about this a few months ago regarding reports, etc. It is obvious that the railroads collected this information because of per diem payments. I have some AAR "Empty Freight

Oh right <G>... Well, the good news is that boxcar utilization was already an issue and while the car service rules had yet to be suspended, they were widely ignored ;^) Regards Bruce Bruce F.

Steve, The problem with that sort of data is that it is not broken down by car type, and so it can be pretty hard to use. For example, the PRR averaged just about 50% home road cars for the entire

David mentioned this place for buying small drills: I had to return the last dozen packages of #79 and #80 drills from Drill City since they weren't sharpened at all...just broken off. That

Its been a few years since I last looked up this information but I know that Railway Age used to publish this kind of data in either their January or February issues (or maybe it was monthly?). I am

Bruce noted: [snip] But I model 1939...<g> Jack Burgess www.yosemitevalleyrr.com

Try cabinet door magnets with a flat steel work surface and some angle plates. Fairly cheap and works well, you can also throw in some odd pieces of angle iron. Jim Eckman