The cheaters way.... Pick a location and period you like to model and try and find a photo of a nearby yard if possible. Buy only the cars in the photo ;) Jim Eckman

Kurt Of the 533 saved emails from Tim Gilbert in my Eudora mail boxes, maybe 200 are concerned with freight car distribution and LCL... But you are probably thinking of the old Freightcars list.

Nope. The vast majority of this previous discussion happened on this list. I don't think Tim was ever on The Freightcars List. BTW, I was wondering the other day about the archive for The

After 35 years of railroading and sitting in clerks, yardmasters, car distributors, trainmasters chairs I'll throw in my two cents. Yardmasters did not supply cars to industries. Unless it was a

Dave The Southern Pacific would number specially equipped or assigned box cars into various 600000 series. Cars moved in and out of these series as needs changed. I have to think the whole logic of

I think they are referring to a previous USENET-based mailing list whose archives is out in the ether somewhere. I occaisionally run across individual threads when doing a google search, but I

Dave This sounds highly unrealistic to me. A freight yard is not a deck of cards. A string of MT box cars is held on a track. The yard clerk has a list of them, but all the agent knows is that there

I had the same problem Cyril Durrenberger Malcolm Laughlin <mlaughlinnyc@...> wrote: average? He's probably closer than any of us ever will be. ====== I'll have more to say on this

Tim O'Connor wrote: That's quite true. In fact, the railroad was empowered to REJECT a route they saw as too circuitous, though if the shipper threatened to file a complaint with the ICC, they

If I could comment on this from experience, I will only say this. I once had a meeting with a publisher close to me at the time and was in the company of another ex-editor and this publisher made a

I am quite ceratain that within the next 5 years there will be no accurate scale drawings of cars and locomotives in any madel rairload magazine. From my contacts in the mags I understand that 1)

Tony, all I meant was that the shipper chose the AVAILABLE route. Not all possible routes were available, and many of those that were available, were circuitous. That was my point -- a railroad did

You all keep saying to look at the past messages for some of this data. I found a number of them, but I did not locate any that had the work that is being sited. Could some one provide the message

Aren't all these magazines dependent on folks wanting to write articles for them? The only difference between these magazines and those for historical societies is that they pay a token amount to

Ok, try this then: I once calculated a correlation of greater than .9 between the number of foreign road boxcars reported in a SRR wheel report and the percentage of each of those foreign roads

Kurt Laughlin wrote: Wish I could comment intelligently on this, but I really know nothing about magazines (except that I sure don't want to deal with monthly or bi-monthly deadlines). I do

Well, sure, my assumption was that someone entering a free market with the intention of making money (another assumption) had a reasonable understanding of the market they were entering. The fact

Dave Evans wrote: Sure. But let's say cars are short and he has only an NP and an ACL box car. He'll use 'em and not worry about "homeward loads." People who have worked those jobs have told us

Bruce, I find this hard to believe, but I am a relative novice. Three separate issues: 1) If a freight agent in LA has 2 shippers requesting 40' XM MT's, one load destined for Syracuse, and the