Al Kresse asks: Was this "The Friends of The Freight Car" T-Shirt list? , I think Tony Thompson is the best source to answer this but I believe the shirt is associated with a dinner meeting that

From Tony: Ted ones on L&N. Tim & Tony have found my weak spot. I lack the the data Tony has quoted, but in 1943 the top 21 roads possessed 73% of the XM, XA, XAP fleet (I'm assuming that during

Walter, See http://www.mrym.org/index.html. Don Burn Grew up in Elmhurst, Illinois

Mike, Was this "The Friends of The Freight Car" T-Shirt list? Al Kresse

Ray, Where is the Monticello RR museum?  New name to me.  I visit Wheaton, Illinois, at least three or four times a year. Al Kresse Grew up in Downers Grove, Illinois

Hi Steve,   Ignore Science & Industry, unless you REALLY like Zephyrs. The time and cost that it will take you to get from Midway to that part of Chicago will easily get you to IRM, which is a FAR

Mike, thanks for that review. It greatly helped me understand the culture here, and empathize with it. After reading your message, I went into the archives, and read messages of December 2000, related

GENTLEMAN: Page 30 of the March 2009 RMC has a ACCURAIL ad showing 40'combo door box cars....whats the correct era for these cars?fit within the STMFC time frame? Thanks Joel Norman

That's a nice list Tony. But something (math?) tells me that a railroad with 1% of the fleet should show up 1/2 as often (average) as one with 2%. I think for my club layout, which has a fleet size in

Having mulled over the box car fleet problem for awhile, and being cognizant of the Gilbert-Nelson approach (for FOREIGN cars on a railroad, and probably primarily for next nearest neighbors, not

Not the first time that ORER data was not correct.  And sometimes the bad data lasted for many years.  So one should check the data if they appear to be strange. A case in point, for almost their

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Maybe a typo. By the 1953 ORER, they have become 1958 cu. ft. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

I can't recall ever seeing this before -- look how wide the walkway is on this tank car -- It is double width. http://search.tacomapubliclibrary.org/images2/30/t4/21117.jpg And now I know

Tim, Check out Red Caboose's "2D-F8" truck (there are dashes in these PRR classes). I think you will find that the side frame matches the Type Y design, although the detail for the end of the truck

In the 1959 ORER, the series 25000-25690 includes the following numbers of cars with these cubic foot capacities: 1958 cft -- 547 2040 cft -- 1 1978 cft -- 20 Weird, huh? Tim

SHPX 25008 was an open-side car, leased to Colgate Palmolive (Microscale 87-660). I'll have to keep my eyes open for more of this series. Tim O'

Right. Duh-oh. My bad.

Not a chance, Tim. Shippers Car Line was a wholly owned subsidiary of American Car & Foundry, and apart from some tank cars that were acquired second-hand, never owned a car that wasn't built by

Dave Nelson writes: "Mike, perhaps it is appropriate to remind folks of the over-arching list objective (WRT to fun, accuracy, manners, and anything else germaine to opinions raised in this thread),

IRM definitely. Monticello IN perhaps? There are many yards around Chicago. I posted the location of an old GM&O box car after Naperville.. and a couple of years ago I found old gons and