OK, now I realize that one example "don't mean nuttin' " in the grand scheme of things, but this list might find this "memorandum" interesting, as it illustrates that cars are, indeed, loaded to

Tony, Yes, that makes sense to me. One thing I found amusing when I first hired out was the mimeographed "Nite Orders" for the four CB&Q yards from Congress Park East. They were usually all on one

With all the discussion lately about handling of foreign revenue cars, I was wondering about how foreign bad order cars were handled. Did the road on which they went bad fix them? Did the fixer charge

And rules or no, cars got to surprising places. In Ferrell's "Slow Trains Down South", vol 1, p 31, there's a picture of Algoma Central 40' SS boxcar 3180 -- on the Middle Fork Railroad in West

Tim Gilbert wrote: This reminds me of the time Larry Kline, C.J. Riley and I were hiking along the WM in West Virginia and found a discarded switch list. It directed that for a particular mine,

sc279373 wrote: It would be extremely rare to find an L&M or Interstate hopper in New Jersey. To get to NJ, they would have to be loaded on their home road for a destination in some place like Ohio.

Dennis Blake, please contact me off-list. Richard Hendrickson

Russ Strodtz wrote: I understand, and others have said the same. But your previous statement implied there might BE no rule. I merely pointed out that there was indeed a rule (whether or not it

This is close to what I was going to say. Except for the fortunate legacy of actual photos we have, all questions of this kind boil down to likelihoods. We can talk about the general principles of

Go ahead and use them. Unless someone can find a photo of them NOT being that far east they can not prove there were NOT there. Big grin. Thank you Larry Jackman Boca Raton

What I have been trying to find out and Ted's book has provided photo evidence is how far east did western road box cars go. I'm aware that you would'nt have a whole raft of say,CGW cars,in

Eric, I did say Timonium didn't I. He did not sign up to go. He was still trying to cleanup past business from the October Timonium, Naperville and the West Springfield shows. He had a lot of

Frank/Tony, Same response for both questions. In the era prior to computers access to ORER's at the local level was very limited. They were expensive and many locations considered themselves to be

they are sold out there too

Looks like Speedwitch & Ted Culotta are back & doing fine and well. I received yesterday, Richard Henrickson's, "Focus on Freight Cars", book, AND my SAL decals, from Speedwitch, & Ted. Ted, the

Not sure how this fits, or how much this was an actual policy, but in the back of my '53 ORER reprint there's this list of order of preference for loading cars... won't reproduce it here, but

Kurt Laughlin wrote: Kurt, Kent Healy in his book "Performance of RR since WWII" (1985), wrote that the rationale to own freight cars was to provide enough cars to supply shippers so as not to lose

Russ Strodtz wrote: How about AAR Car Service Rule 3? It says "foreign empty cars SHALL BE . . . delivered empty to home road." (my emphasis) There are further details in the Rule, including the

Paul Koehler wrote: Wow! How's that for the power of the Internet? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

I just received a phone call from Fred, in less that ½ hour all copies of the book have been sold. The Original Whistle Stop is now sold out. Paul C. Koehler _____ From: