Ed, I'm confused by your wording "lengthwise". All decking on a flatcar goes across the width of the car. Do you mean the decking was missing and created a hole about 10' within the deck? Roger

Charlie could you please contact me off list. Clark Propst

Tim, Perhaps I don't understand what you are trying to say. Is your basic premise that freight car movements are random? I thought freight car movements are all part of a grand and glorious plan, a

That's odd, about 25 years ago I released an empty flatcar after tearing more (much more) than ten feet of the decking off. Interesting feeling, walking just the center sill as we spotted the car for

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timboconnor@... wrote: Tim, Even in a good year, there would be a difference between the percentage of home to total cars moving and that percentage of home to total cars on line. For

About 25 years ago I saw a flat car which was missing about 10 lengthwise feet of decking (there were a couple of random planks in the space). Was this common? In the steam era? It would make an

Tim, wasn't 1949 a recession year? That could produce a glut of home road cars cluttering up yards, waiting for repairs or retirement, but not moving in trains much. I know PRR usually had thousands

I want to thank Jack, Ben and others for answering my question. Ben sorry for not looking back at the old messages. I understand how it can be when you have new folks joining the list. I would agree

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim, Your guess is too high - it was between 21 and 22% in the 1949 Fraley Wheel Report - 618 UP cars out of 2,791 total. More as to car type later when I finish cross

You are invited to attend: Rails By The Bay 2006 A Pacific Northwest Railroad Prototype Modelers Meet Saturday, May 20, 2006, 9am to 6pm Bellingham, Washington Presented by: Brian Rutherford,

Tim O'Connor wrote (in a generally sensible post): For this kind of observation, it would probably be a normal distribution (which is the most common way to get a "bell curve"), not a binomial

Larry King asked: There is no catalog or on-line ordering. The simplest way is to write or e-mail Arnold and explain what you are interested in. He is located in Bisbee, Arizona. If you want a

How does one access the Arnold Menke collection? Larry King <lrkdbn@...>

Does anyone have pictures or modifcations that can be done to the wood end or 4300 series steel end cars. I would like to finish my undec models with that extra detail or difference. Ross Dando

Try looking at SLSF, Rock Island, Wabash, Ann Arbor, NYC... I know there were non-panel side USRA rebuilds in the 60's but I'm not sure of the panel side cars. If you don't have the ORER, Al

If Larry Grubb sees this please email with a phone number to retrun your call. I realized/remembered when I was going thru my old messages that you had called but I did not have a number to call you

report. That would be a reasonable backhaul for an empty reefer; clean, packed in small boxes that are easy enough to move through the narrow door, possibly a small size shipment. When I was a kid in

Hi All, Judging from the 3 photos I have of N5b & N5c with Trust Plates, they are all in the same approximate place, as opposed to the N8 which has the Trust Plates on the other end of the car. SO,

Brett, The Wabash had one of the largest number of 30'-6"IL panel hopper cars. There were 500 cars in the 34000-34499 series and 1000 cars in the 35000-35999 series. In 1949, 1063 cars in both