Larry Wolohon wrote: Yes. This is the "nearest neighbor" problem. Most roads had fierce competitors with whom one might say they had unfriendly interchange. That means that their freight agents

Tony, That is a useful list. About 2 years ago, I did a clinic on why you should run freight cars Not of your protoype on your layout. I am attempting to model the GN in the late 40's in the

Anyone have a list of unpainted box car roofs? This would make a good article for Ed Hawkins RPC series of books or magazines. (Which is it Ed?) Isn't this information usually on some document from

Thanks, Ed. That helps. Rich Orr

Tony,   I have it in my mind, rightly or wrongly, that the specific railroad is not as important as the specific car.  Going through the ORER might be helpful in one regard.  Some railroads may not

more, though we could always do it again, say for Cocoa in 2010. What say, Mike? Isn't it the tenth aniversary of Cocoa Beach meet? It seems certainly seems appropriate. Besides my shirt doesn' fit

Richard, Great shot of the galvanized roof on an older ex-PM box repainted after mid-1954.   Roof shots are hard to find it seems. Al Kresse

Whoa, Peter! You don't want to mess much with the door operating mechanisms. The Ulrich model represents Enterprise GS gondolas as built, for example, for the Southern Pacific (though CN also

Are we talking N&W GS 100-ton gons from 1921-1934? Al Kresse

Mike Brock wrote: The first FOTFC shirt was indeed produced for the freight-car oriented speakers at the 1990 NMRA National in Pittsburgh. Since I was clinic chair for that meeting, there were

other primary souce distribute the boxcars Some care should be given to using the ORER data straight off the page as the ORER is a list of cars assigned to a number series for a given mark, not cars

west of the Mississippi River?  I am currently going through and printing negatives that my uncle took on the Utah, Idaho Central an Interurban line which ran between Ogden, Utah and Preston,

In addition to Mike's examples, try going to atsfrr.net and looking at the photos under "Company Store"/"Jack Whitmeyer Collection"/"Miscellaneous Rolling Stock." You'll find boxcars from the B&LE,

Peter Bowers wrote: Peter, the Ulrich car depicts the Enterprise door gear. It is indeed somewhat oversize, though not violently so. You could in principle file off the Enterprise links, round

Andy, Was the MCK gon loaded with pipe? This might explain its presence in California. MCK was a US Steel owned line that served the National Tube Company's (subsidiary of USS) Christy Park

I should mention that Tim Gilbert's file that is still in the files section of the STMFC contains data for 1946 and 1947 also. Brian. On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:03:15 -0800 (PST), Mike Aufderheide

Al Kresse wrote: Much better than finding a coal car <g>. I have several West Coast photos of yards and freight trains in which C&O box cars or gondolas can be seen, and PM auto cars.

Tim O'Connor wrote: You're right. The list is for smaller fleets. As the fleet gets bigger and bigger, you would need a longer and longer list of the type I posted. Well said <g>.

Mike Aufderheide wrote: Exactly. My list only tells you the RAILROADS to be represented. Additional info such as the Ostrich lists is need to identify which CARS to have. Of course, many, many

Claus - Thank you very much for making your index of Westerfield AC&F photos available! A.T. Kott