InterMountain just confirmed that the HO scale 70 ton flat cars will be available as undecorated kits. The stock number will be 43799, the list price US $ 19.95. This will be a much better solution

In regard to the tax dodge that the CNJ had by setting up the lines in PA as CRP, it has to go back to sometime in 1945. The July 1944 ORER (effective date being April 1944) shows the CNJ only while

Tim O'Connor wrote: The statistic I provided was a comparison of SP traffic over the combined Cascade and Siskiyou Routes, to and from Oregon, vs. the amount of traffic on the GN-WP Inside

Allen I'm not sure it's accurate to list singletons as "strays" just yet. Let's wait until we have all 100 data sets before we can get a full picture of the reporting marks distribution. To

If you model this period, note that in 1950, there were 3,436 freight cars lettered CNJ, but 7,878 cars lettered CRP -- In other words, two thirds of the fleet had been relettered CRP!! By 1953, the

Cars through Bieber 1947 4th Quarter, numbers ending 03 - 258 cars GN 45 PFE 22 ATSF 20 PRR 13 SP 11 UP 10 NYC 10 DRGW 9 WP 8 CBQ 8 WFE 6 NP 5 LN 5 SFRD, Milw MDT GWEX BO 4 Wab UCR TP RDG CO CNW

Yes, Richard, wrong on the date, but right on the reason, concept, and methodology (re-initializing the equipment). It all happened a few years earlier than I had in mind. Thanks for setting

Well, Schuyler, in fact you ARE wrong, at least partly. CRP was established in 1944 as a separate operating branch of the Central RR of New Jersey, and remained so until ca. 1954, when the courts

Tony, your 84/16 is roughly a 5:1 ratio. There must be some amount of double counting since GN/SP interchanged some amount of traffic at Klamath Falls, although it's probably not a lot. The region had

Central Railroad Company of Pennsylvania: August 1946 to December 1952, according to Edson. John C. La Rue, Jr. Bonita Springs, FL

Assuming the ends of the cutters are flat, this is the item... SKay

Doesn't seem so high to me when you look at it as 135+ north and 135+ south, come close to possibly match the time-tables. Also the GN passed traffic to the SP at K Falls, that came out of

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Schuyler Larrabee wrote: 1944 to 1952, according to Wikipedia. (with the usual Wikipedia caveat). Frank Valoczy Vancouver, BC

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I could be wrong, but it seems to me that CRP was set up around '52 in an effort to put some assets of the CNJ out of the reach (well, that was the idea) of NJ tax authorities. A lot of rolling

The tax dodge was incorporated into the plot of a Paul Newman movie, The Young Philadelphians, where he saves a client big bucks by shuffling some business from NJ to PA taxes. Tim O'Connor

Al Daumann wrote: That high an amount seems impossible, but I'm quoting a traffic study from 1951. Even the 275/day at Bieber sounds high to me. I'd believe 1500 or so cars daily at Redding,

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Tony,   Thanks for the info.  So if I'm reading you right and assuming Tim's data (about 25000 cars per 3 months or about 275 cars / day through Bieber), then the total SP traffic would be about 10