All, I'm trying to locate photos of Shell Oil Co. tank cars, in particular cars lettered SCCX, SCMX, and SNHX. These would be cars in the steam era. Any leads on sources would be appreciated. Also

Jack was the zinc inbound, or outbound? If outbound, do you know where it went? I suppose if inbound in a Milwaukee gondola then it could have come from Idaho... and if it was inbound, what industry

Bulk oil dealers - try Sanborn maps, telephone books/yellow pages. ---------------------------------------------------------------- J. Stephen (Steve)

I hope the Mike will allow mw a little latitude here since this group is often a source of wide ranging information. I am looking for an avenue to determine what retail gasoline stations operated in

Gene wrote: That is exactly correct Gene, especially for railroads like the YV and others that didn't have "through" traffic. Some of that "better information" is obviously photos and there are

To build on Gene's observation, this is one of the objections I have to the Car Card Pocket / Waybill system as it is supposed to be used (waybills don't stay with the Car Card Pocket but are cycled

Notice an almost Vans' order # 5604: PM and NKP yes, but how did the W&LE get in there on the same order . . . bootstrapped to the NKP? Al Kresse

This last comment is very pointed!  How do you tackfully bridge the gap between "prototypical" terminology vs. "modeler or railfan" terminology? Modelers request information from historical

It also has the 7 panel door making it good for NKP, PM, and W&LE.  The box on the other hand says otherwise by listing some prototypes that had the 6 panel door, more marketing appeal I

As a reminder, the hypothesis that Tim and I asserted always was qualified: Ordinary, **foreign** road boxcars. Tim later suggested ordinary foreign road flatcars were the same. Post WWII

Mike, Consider that two of the same cars could mean your are twice as serious a prototype modeler than the rest of us! Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Mike Brock wrote:

Walt Lankenau says: "Maybe you COULD include "cars with less than one car" by cycling them into and out of your mix so that they would only appear rarely, rather than not at all. Instead of leaving

...one MWR car every ten days. My sample of the real UP box car data is so small that IF I want the appearances of box cars to match the long term ratios, I can't include cars with less than one

Pullman welded box car (PS-0) original roster: B&LE 90101- 90200 blt 1938 6' 6p SUP lot 5584 CGW 90000- 90049 blt 1938 6' 6p SUP lot 5584 NKP 20000- 20199 blt 1940 6' 7p SUP lot 5604A PM

Mike Brock wrote: And the ICC data shows they also ate more dried beans and far less fruits and vegetables than the national average. And I too am not certain why this should be. Anyone ready for

Elden wrote I would just like to add that home road cars appear in most yards in greater proportion, but as model railroaders we do not bother with (1) bad order cars (2) cars in storage (3) cars

Dave; represents a location where probably 95-99% of the box cars were through cars (that has its own concerns when contemplating op sessions, but that is for a different group ;-) For me, it

generate 50 Mike: As you might recall I've not been a memeber of this group for long so yes I am surprised. To be fair though, you should see the guys in the banana group go on about boxcars. It'd

Stephan Parachuk says: "Guys: I am astounded that so many words have been spent today because earlier I said that if Jack Burgess wanted to go ahead and build that MWR car he remembered from when he

Tim O'Connor writes: "Mike, you model the UNION PACIFIC MAINLINE, for goodness sake. Your argument that no Muncie & Western box car would or should be seen seems to fly in the face of the fact