Here is a message from Tim Gilbert with his analysis of the 1949 UP data. I will note that there appears to be an error under IV., Box cars in the number of cars for Milw, SP, C&NW and CB&Q that their

Given the rather high interest in frt car distribution...which such high interest seems to parallel other insurmountable barriers like color and banana shipments...and, given the fact that my name

In a message dated 8/13/2008 4:49:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, midcentury@... writes: have been lobbying for a plain-journal 70 ton truck for the past 2 years, but I, like Tim

Well you can do it now for the benefit of generations to come. Start procrastinating now! Manfred same such photos viewing

Sadly, no one took a giant panoramic photos of the same yard at the same time every day for a year -- what a treasure that would be. I think such photos would be immensely illuminating to this

--- In STMFC@..., "drgwrail" <drgwrail@...> wrote: Sorry, that is raildata@... Chuck Y > > Jeff, please contact me at raildata@... > > (Or anyone else who might have Jeff's

This approach has the beauty, too, that it provides an excuse for building 500 freight cars! :-) Steam era of course. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Tom Interesting enough, but since the PRR and other roads probably never had an average "dwell time" of under 24 hours in their yards, your description begs the question of how long those empties sat

Greg, I have immense respect for Dan Holbrook -- but 2008-35 = 1973. In other words Dan's experiences reflect the modern era and not so much that of the steam era. I enjoyed Dan's mention of the

Jeff, please contact me at raildata@.... (Or anyone else who might have Jeff's e-mail address) Chuck Yungkurth Boulder CO

ed_mines wrote: My reply to Kurt was somewhat tongue in cheek, but our books on freight cars sell as well as any other books we do. I can't speak for Hawkins or Culotta, but Westerfield's kit

Larry Jackman wrote: Dan Holbrook, care to comment on a comparison to more recent times? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

When I was a clerk on the Un Pac At Topeka and Salina Ks we never followed the rules. If a box car was not marked return to XXX when empty we used the empty cars as we wanted. The lead engine would

that these, of for That have the on claim Tony, I agree with Kurt. You know how much interest there is in books about steam era freight cars. Not too much, right? Ed Hawkins and Ted Cullotta should

and there is one thing that I did not see that happened daily on the Penn (and other roads) each day. the foreign road empties that were not spoken for to be loaded and placed them into outbound

Brian, Thanks! I did a quick check of the '48 Potomac yard data - 1026 X cars listed. A few significant variations from national averages. Several smaller NE railroads seem over-represented. Will do

And model only that yard on that day ;^) It certainly cannot be viewed as accurate for anything more, since yards, depending on where they are and their functions within that railroad may serve

Looking at the fragment below, has anyone considered the idea that perhaps there just ISN'T much of a market (*) for articles like these, as evidenced by the failure of RMJ, MM, and MRG and the

I have been following this distribution business for quite some time and there is one thing that I did not see that happened daily on the Penn (and other roads) each day. Each day, the yardmasters at

Hi Mark--Sometime in 1953 PRR decided that covered hoppers should be gray. The shadow keystone drawing for the H30 was issued in April, 1955. Any H30's requiring repaint between 1953 and April 1955