Typically, how far in advance of the cover date did the railways supply data to the ORER publisher in the era when the ORER was issued quarterly? Specifically, I am looking at the WP's first group of

Thanks, Tony Greg Kennelly

Hi Rob, A comparison of the January 1953 ORER listings for the Erie gondolas (series 14500 - 14949) and the NYC gondolas (series 706500 - 747999) shows that the Erie cars were 6" longer than the NYC o

Rob, There is no Miner drawing # indicated, but the 1928 Car Builders' Cyclopedia includess a drawing showing "Miner Refrigerator Car Door Fastener and Insulation" as Fig. 580 on page 395. I haven't c

With tank cars not being re-weighed on a regular basis, I am searching for clues to help date tank car photographs. Courtesy of Ian Cranstone, I have several photographs of British American Oil Compan

Many thanks, Richard. Your knowledge of such STMFC trivia is greatly appreciated. Based on that information, I think I am probably on fairly safe ground with respect to the "prototype police" in havin

Brian, Thank you for posting this group of photographs. I am particularly interested in a group of British American Oil Company (BAOX) tank cars also built by STC Co in March - August of 1923. Virtual

I first met Richard at the NMRA National Convention in Sacramento in 2011 but we had corresponded for a number of years prior to that. Along with Ian Cranstone, Richard provided me with immeasurable h

Group, Please forgive this slightly off topic post, but I have uploaded a file at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/STMFC/files/Unknown%20photographers%20mark/ showing an identifying mark which appe

B&O 466292 in the Sentinel Service paint scheme was photographed by Walter E Frost in Vancouver, BC, on June 13, 1954 (re-weighed and repacked at WA in 9-53) http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/b-o-bal

Many thanks, Ben. Armed with that information, I will simply assume for my modelling purposes that either PRR X29 #52569 also made a trip to the Vancouver, BC area 13 months prior to Walter Frost's ph

Many thanks for that information, Jim. Cheers, Greg Kennelly Burnaby, BC

The July 1940 and April 1942 ORERs show ten (10) MN&S 36 ft box cars, numbered 2501 - 2510. XM IL 36-0, IW 8-6, IH 8-0, 2448 CUFT, CAPY 80000, doors 6-0W x 7-6H. The listings include a statement that

Doug Polinder writes: "My observations of Pacific Northwest lumber traffic agree with Chuck Soule's sightings in Tacoma. GN received interchange cars from CN at New Westminster BC, and I believe CN fo

In "Pacific Northwest Lumber Traffic", Tim O’Connor wrote: “There's a late 1950's shot of PGE 4220 (NSC built 40 foot box) in the Los Angeles area in the Jim Gerstley slide collection. The car has a b

Thanks to Bob Hanmer and Barry Bennett who, off list, provided me with information that the statement "Freight Cars owned are used only in Switching Service with direct connections" appeared in the Pa

Garth, I would support your interpretation. According to a number of CPR historians here in the Vancouver, BC area, the CP would routinely send empty US road cars up to Squamish on the barge (Car Serv

Colin, The 1919 Car Builders Dictionary and Cyclopedia has a drawing (unfortunately, not dimensioned) on Page 339 (Page 357 of the PDF available on-line from the University of Hong Kong at this link:

Hi Rob, The July 1935 ORER shows 3430 cars with hopper doors in series 230000 - 234999 and 50 cars without hopper doors in series 234000 - 234599 - the number of cars in this group is shown as an incr

Tony, A very interesting tabulation of data. It is interesting to note that, for my Sept 1952 modelling era, more cars (38851) than the total fleet size (38631 in 1952) had been painted in the 1/1946