Dave: I model 1957 so I do not know. I suspect 1944 modeler Bruce Smith or Guy Wilber may know. Brian Carlson On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:50:29 -0000, devansprr wrote

returned to were) is what should not Brian, What about during World War II? Many US car service rules were suspended. Was the Canadian law requiring quick returns enforced during that period, or did

wrote: Richard, My bad - somewhere I got my "what they are" vs. "what I need" crossed. That means the Proto is getting closer for the ATSF Fe24 (roof and ends not checked), but is too tall for the

Now I'm embarrassed - when did this site go up? Thanks Stephan! Dave Evans

IIRC, it was determined these were milk cars. Brian Ehni the foreground in clean new paint) are riding on high-speed express trucks of some sort? But they are not reefers, no ice hatches! Are they

Hi List Members, Regarding one of the images on this site... http://www.bronx-terminal.com/wp-content/uploads/1a34660uu.jpg Did anyone notice in this image that the cars in the front (for example,

Richard, Try SCMX. AC&F built a number of cars for Shell Chemical Co. with SCMX reporting marks during the 1930s-1940s, but car number 2058 wasn't in the bunch. The closest I find is SCMX 2063-2081

Dave-- No offence taken. You've given a very good explanation as to quantities of Canadian cars in the US, and why you exclude them from your fleet percentages. Customs tariff issues caused both

Brian-- I totally agree with you. It seems that some regional weighing of fleet percentages is in order. The Niagara Frontier would have some Canadian cars population higher than the US average,

Trying to find some info on Shell tankcar SNHX 2058. I can find info on it in the 70's but the number doesn't show up in earlier ORER's. Does anyone know of earlier reporting marks? It was built in

Tim O'Connor wrote: That first Delano photo... I have the .tif for that... Something like 6000 pixels across. I resized it slightly and then cropped away most of the photo so I could have a 1600x1200

water.kresse@... wrote: Spam was in production before WWII. It was one of the many food items shipped to the UK during the war. As for beer in a boxcar... Heck, it's American "beer",

I love that site, but he screwed up on the Branchline reefer -- the door rod is mislocated on the kit, it has to be relocated a few inches to the left! Tim O'Connor

Steve Lucas wrote: No need to belabor it but being able to back it up w/ fact as always helpful. Per the Canadian Bureau of Statstics, in the mid 50's, only 10% of all Canadian carloadings were sent

I'm not sure where the idea came from in this discussion that the P2K 50' box/auto car models represent cars with 10'0" IH, but they don't; they are based on 10'6" IH prototypes. As for the Santa

Kurt (and others with similarly small fleets of box cars), I think you have to be very careful about applying the percentages of the G-N theory/model to a box car fleet of only 20 cars. You

Sorry, when I did my research a couple of years ago titled Why you should run freight cars Not of your prototype, I found on the GN there were very few Canadian freight cars in GN yards or in GN

As I said, I agree, but those cars were required by law to be returned to Cananda. (We know there are cases they weren't but in general they were) Therefore, there were not in the free running XM

Steve, Thanks so much! Al

Brian-- I don't want to belabour my assertion. A lot of paper and paper products were shipped into the US in Canadian cars. Steve Lucas. under most they pointed out since the cities be a