Ben Hom wrote: "We all look forward to your work to come on passenger car research - it's the next great set of myths and urban legends that need to be smashed in the hobby." It's not "to come",

Hello all: I was finally able to post those photos of the CRDX (Chicago Freight Car Leasing) boxcars at the Illinois Railway Museum. To reiterate, I am working on trying to decipher the histories

For those who aren't YahooGroups savvy, a direct URL is http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/lst If there are any non-Yahoo members (such as Richard) who would like a copy of the pictures

Quite a different situation from these other examples would be the last month and a half of operation on the Suncook Valley in 1952. Of some 97 cars interchanged, <28> were from Canadian roads. This

Bill Daniels wrote: Right. Otherwise you get lumpy paper. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 http://www.signaturepress.com (510)

Yes, but those cars were <surplus.> That is in part why they were scrapped. Due to the Depression, most of those cars had probably not turned a wheel for several years. Tim Gilbert has shared info

I've posted another 26 photos from the Clark Propst collection on our web site: http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/index.html (A couple are duplicates, but I need to make sure. I haven't done much

Bill, In New England, boxcars were the prime carriers of pulpwood until the mid-1950's. Also used were roofless, otherwise obsolete Boxcars. The B&M's pulp racks resembled an open-roofed stock car

Thanks John. Can anyone identify the brand of farm tractors?? They look a little bit like "Cockshutt" brand, for which a fellow in Canada was selling resin models a while

The flat in this photo is the closest thing I've seen to a prototype for the Athearn "50 foot" flat car kit. What a great shot, taken in

John says this is black, but I think it is a dark green car. http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/rolling-stock/Propst's-photos/ri-wif246-6103-sdm.jpg Timothy O'Connor

John thinks this is a 1937 [sic] AAR boxcar, but the more I look the weirder it gets -- the roof appears to be flat for example. But more interesting is the rivet/panel pattern on the sides -- they

Tim O'Connor astutely observed concerning ADN 1474 (http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/rolling-stock/Propst's-photos/ri-a dn1474-7009-sdm.jpg): John thinks this is a 1937 [sic] AAR boxcar, but

Tim O'Connor wants to know about "Cockshutt" farm tractors that may, or may not, be loaded aboard a flat car in this scene. Me, my attention went to the roof rail parallel to the roof edge and

Tim, I dunno. I've seen something like those bolster tabs somewhere, but I can't place them right now. Maybe PSSC? The closeness of the top rib to the roofline suggest this car might be less than 10'

Aaargh! <slaps own head, hard> Hit me with the bleeding obvious, why don't you? An ORER listing doesn't necessarily mean that they were in service at times of a car surplus. So that 9 percent wood

raw material* bound for US paper mills (both east and westbound, believe it or not), 2) Canadian-made paper bound for US consumption, 3) Canadian lumber bound for US consumption. * variously

Obviously, my previous post regarding the distinctions between "pulp", "wood pulp" and "pulp wood" didn't get interpreted the way I intended. The question is whether these were distinguished under

Interesting. This would completely eliminate some international interchange points from these statistics, since they were located exactly AT the border. One such point was the Spokane International