Russ Strodtz wrote: Or you can look in the back of the PFE book and see the actual statistics. It was indeed split in roughly equal parts among the three roads in the 1950s. Tony Thompson

Tony, thank you for the date of the slogan, it's refreshing to know I can model without that one. Fred Freitas Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote: Fred

Did the PFE act as agent for shippers? Did the railroads ever act as agent? I ask this because there were a number of fruit and produce auction houses in the east. The PRR (ducking) operated

Richard, I agree. Must be an artist's conception. That would not even be a good fit through the hatch. Russ

Bruce, What affiliation does PRR have with BRE and WFE had how would that have any influence on traffic volume? Perishable was almost always "Shippers Route". As to the Washington Apple traffic it

In a message dated 6/19/2007 10:59:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, cjriley42@... writes: Do I dare bring up that there were not 13 original states and that there are still fewer than 50

Fred Freitas wrote: After the term of this list; and in the 1980s, when UP was among Amtrak's biggest obstacles, pleading excessive traffic, some passenger fans lettered their model UP box

Farthest West was Texas Tech SUVCWORR@... wrote:

Rich Orr, obviously tireless on the subject of the PRR, wrote: Aside from the CP slogan just mentioned (which was BOTH in advertising and on box cars), how many of these boastful claims

Rich, Tony, list, When did the "We can handle it" slogan first appear; and could they live up to it? Fred Freitas Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote:

Strangely enough my first resin kit was a Westerfield USRA SS boxcar and I labored long and hard over which road to choose. Owing to PRR's massive ownership of said car and their interchange with

Similarly, remember that Ohio is in the midwest! Brian Ehni

Pennsy got to call itself the "Standard Railroad . . ." because it thought of it first, seems to me. Not that I'm one to defend the PRR (for my money, the best things about that road were its Grif

Rich Orr wrote: Sure, Pittsburgh called itself the "Gateway to the west" when the frontier wasn't much farther away; so did St. Louis at a later date in a similar situation. By the time UP

Rich, hard to say, the rest could of gone to lower volume interchanges or terminated on the Wabash. I wonder if refers were ferried across at Detroit-Windsor? -- Allen Rueter StLouis MO

FYI, the L&N slogan "The Old Reliable" had NOTHING to do with railroad performance, and EVERYTHING to do with paying a consistent dividend (i.e., stock performance)! Brian Ehni

Advertising publicity. Didn't have to truthful or accurate back then. Robert Federle Nextdoor to the southwest in Louisiana ---- Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote:

In a message dated 6/19/2007 8:45:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, atkott@... writes: Texas was unique among (the original 48) states in having been a separate country when it entered the

and here I always thought the Texas panhandle was SOUTH and WEST of the New Mexico border... and a lot of Texas is well SOUTH of NM, AZ and CA. yep, us Texuns know 'xactly where the southwest is...