I have moved servers as well as changed the URL to all my transportation photography. Everything transportation orientated can now be found at http://transport.castlegraphics.com All of the older

Dave, Sorry, not bridge traffic, bridge traffic went over the CN, via trackage rights, so they would not show up in Copeland interchange reports. The numbers reflect that, nothing was

Do we know for certain that this is a photo of the Bronx Terminal? Seems like a high percentage of C&NW cars, including those with the large while X's on them in the second row, which seems odd for a

Tom Madden notes...I think...that he believes that we should be more civil and friendly in our messages: "The recent query about Athearn and Atlas tank cars is a case in point. Believing that truth

Kingstown, TN, school server? Al Kresse The Adam and Eve of freight car lists was an e-mail list set up by the always shy and perfectly reserved Mr. Tim O'Conner, which he called FCN... for the

I've been looking for a suitable starting point for my New Haven 34500- 35999 10'IH early PS-1 cars. The New Haven cars had 10-panel welded sides instead of 12-panel sides as on one IM boxcar

From a 1947 Copeland report, at Detroit, Wabash > CP 18850 loads/year, CP > Wabash 24330 loads/year. 1954 Detroit: Wabash > CP 18100, CP > Wabash 16600 -- Allen Rueter StLouis MO

Can't lay my hands on it right this moment but believe I have photos buried here of C&NW milk cars that duplicate those in the Jack Delano view. If they really are in the Bronx Terminal, and

Also of note is the use of brass rail on some of the through tracks. I'm thankful that I still have some brass flex-track tucked away, though it's sadly Code 100. Maybe I could make up a jig and mill

Mark, That is a "slack adjuster" used for adjusting the travel of the brake components, which developed "slack" over time as the brake pads wore down. GN and ATSF were two other roads that

Many still believe that "overspray" was the actual roof color.There are also those who believe that only the first group of Rutland PS-1s received the painted roof while subsequent cars only had

Would Hugh Cain please contact me off list? Allen Cain

below Mark: P.S. make that album "1928 power hand brake". Also if you loook at the first photo in "CN Steel framed boxcar" you can see the chain from a similiar devive hanging down just to the left of

Ed, We call them books, but we don't care what they are called as long as people buy them. <g> You are correct that he information would be some document from the manufacturer. The challenge is to

Mark: If you go to the photos section of the group you'll see some photos of a device called called a power increaser in the album called 1929 brakes. It's not the same device as you can see by the

Well, I'm not running any through trains on my layout. It's a Y-shaped branch about 2-1/2 miles long. I picked the type of cars based on the industries present and the number based on a reasonable

What is the description/function of that small rectangular device below one of the car doors that appears to be connected with the braking system? They don't seem common to me. Thanks. Mark Pierce

Great weathering! Robert J. Miller, CFA All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances