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Hello Group, Many years ago there was a small railroad museum known as the Kansas City Railroad Museum and tank car SRDX 410 was one of the pieces of equipment on display. I have uploaded three

I have uploaded a file Excel spreadsheet) I create a number of years ago which shows each road and cars owned by type for 1953. The data can be sorted by road name, total fleet size or number of cars

Was there a formula or dimensions or some other basis that was used to define what constituted a "fishbelly" underframe. I ask because while the u/f of the USRA's 40-ton DS car was obviously this

The Navy had three large groups of 50' 1-1/2 door steel box cars for ammunition loading, as well as a few flat cars, conventional tank cars, and helium tank cars. See any steam era Official

Brian, We are not sure how much the membership will embrace the modeling, but if they don't there won't be a Society in a few years. The people who worked on the NYC and occupy Board positions

Tony,   I agree with you, this is not a to do list, but a broader brush to see what cars are needed to convey a sense of time and place.   The difficulty comes when one sees a small road with post

Hi guys, Some of you might have noticed that our website recently became an absolute mess. Tons of banners and pop-up ads, much of the data gone and no shopping cart. Seems our provider

Mike Aufderheide wrote: Your list, by groups of car numbers, is fine for catching missing cars. But as a modeling "to do" list, things like roofs and ends are vital parts of how many models

Tony,   I can't speak to the NYC roofs, somone....?  For the purposes of this list I have not distinguished between types of roofs, doors, ends or trucks.    Yes, I admit that 13th and 14th down

Bud Rindfleisch

The data for boxcars as of 12-31-1950 can be found in the Files section as a table of numbers and in the photos section as two bar charts for the top twenty owners and the next twenty owners. The

I am sure this has come up but can not find anything about it in the archives. I have a US Navy, made by Athern, boxcar and am wondering how correct it is? Did the Navy have any boxcars and if so

Mike Aufderheide wrote: Terrific list, Mike! A couple of comments: Um, I'm a little doubtful that car groups this far down the list all need to be done--except of course for modelers

All,   FWIW, the following lists of the most numerous box/auto/vent cars not modeled in resin or plastic: (1950 ORER #s)     ACL O16A, B, C 40ft rebuilt auto car. 2,500 cars, 3rd most numerous

I have this boxcar data for 1956 summarized also, I'll post tonight if it helps. I think it was in my Naperville handout also. Brian Carlson

Richard Hendrickson wrote: "Ben, as your boxcar compilation no doubt shows, this list changes dramatically if coal hoppers are excluded. B&O, C&O, L&N, and N&W move way down the list, Santa Fe,

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Exactly. The chart i referenced from my blog DOES have the hopper, ore and ballast cars removed. Here's that link

JP Barger wrote: Yes, I published such a chart years ago, and have reproduced it in a post on my blog. Here's the

Here is a reference to Pareto that JP mentioned...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution The Pareto distribution, named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, is a power law