I had the opportunity last evening to install a set of the new Precision Scale Models cast brass air hose brackets.  Mounting went well and I ended up with a sturdy assembly that matches the

Steve Lucas wrote: Yes, the Car Service rules were really consensus standards, and we know from the testimony of many people who worked in past eras that the rules were NOT followed if not

Frieght car distribution in the steam was effected by the seasons, particularly hoppers in the northeast. When there was a shortage of hoppers in the dead of winter anthracite carriers were in no

Steve Lucas wrote: Glad you've looked it over. I think it's quite impressive. We really need to get it into print somewhere, since it's natural that not everyone has access to, or wants to

Dave, If you've read my article in TKM on the PRR fleet ;^) you know that the PRR averaged around 50% home road, but that includes about 75% home road hoppers, 50% home road gons and 25%

I never had the pleasure of meeting Tim, but it's patently obvious that his work was very thorough. What is reasonably typical, on the average? He's probably closer than any of us ever will be. And

Tony-- You are very correct about the tax implications for Canadian roads when their equipment (locos and cars) were used in the US for a longer time than necessary. CN, CP, and BC Rail all had

I'll preface my remarks by stating that my primary goal is not to create some sort of statisically valid model freight car fleet but instead to recreate the visual aspects of the trains I'm

I'm convinced that there was a lot of hoarding of good cars going on on most roads, Canadian and American, in the timeframe of STMFC. And it occurs to me that somewhere I read of US roads' reluctance

I agree with both of you gents. But Dale, please don't extrapolate my mention of one TH&B car showing up in Florida to mean that strings of them would show up in Wyoming. This is about as likely as

Opps, should have pointed out I was referring to PowerPoint 2003. Here is a link to a PowerPoint users forum that offers tips to embed fonts in PowerPoint back to PowerPoint 97

Tim is exactly correct. The science of operations research covers deviations from average in great detail. It can have significant impact on the design of many systems. The "Standard

Lately I have been doing research on the Yakima Valley Transportation Co. and have been going through the 1967 Freight Abstracts for cars received and forwarded for the year. While this date is out of

Mike Brock wrote Many people who don't understand statistics think that any variance from the MEAN indicates an ERROR. If everyone in the U.S. had no money, and Bill Gates had a trillion

Dave Nelson wrote: Exactly. Wish I could have said it as well. And the world IS still round. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

understand individual trains. That is correct. Here's a simple explanation of the issue: --------- Safeway sells all sorts of things, one of which is Yoplait Yogurt. Railroads move all sorts of

Oh no, John, not evilution! Jared Harper Athens, GA

I've submitted stuff to Bill S. at RMC in the past and he is a pleasure to work with. The problem is space. Typically, my freight car articles in RMJ consisted of substantial text plus anywhere

Mike Brock wrote: Mike is, again, treating an entirely different problem--no less important, but different. Tim and those who worked with him, like Dave Nelson, NEVER tried to understand

Doug Harding wrote: Not in my Macintosh version of PP. There is no "package" option anywhere. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA