When I first read this, I thought perhaps I had gotten the spelling wrong in the Excel spreadsheet, available at the Laramie Railroad Depot's website, www.laramiedepot.org So I checked the scanned ima

Hi Everyone Images of all the pages from a 1951 U.P. Freight Conductors' Train Book and an Excel file of its contents are available online at the Laramie Railroad Depot Association's website: www.lara

Hi Tim and Mike The Laramie, Hahns Peak & Pacific went through many name changes over the years: 1901-1914 Laramie, Hahns Peak & Pacific 1914-1924 Colorado, Wyoming & Eastern 1924 Northern Colorado &

Hi Everyone Over the next two or three weeks, a wedge snow plow, steam engine, bunk car, and caboose will be moved from various locations in Laramie, Wyoming, to a new Railroad Heritage Park adjacent

Thank you Richard for your (as usual) very prompt and thorough reply. Larry Ostresh Laramie, Wyoming

Hi Richard If it isn't too much trouble, I would appreciate knowing the number series and build dates for the single sheathed cars involved in these rebuilds. Thanks, Larry Ostresh Laramie, Wyoming

Hi Allen What's up? Larry [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Thank you very much, Rick. Thanks also for making me aware of the Louisiana Digital Libray - I had not seen that repository before. They have a great collection of very high resolution photos of RR su

Thanks Mike! Very useful information. Best wishes, Larry Ostresh Laramie, Wyoming

This is terrific information, Gary. Thank you very much! Larry Ostresh Laramie, Wyoming

Hi Everyone I am in the process of transcribing ORER line data pertaining to box, auto, and ventilator cars for U.S. railroads into an Excel spreadsheet. The seven ORERs so far completed are: January

Thanks Tim. Frank's post and the replies to it establish that the B&LE cars were actually built, but do not address the issue of whether they were the first non-experimental steel cars built in the U.

Hi Everyone I came across the following paragraphs in Railway Age Gazette, Vol. 53, No. 26 (December 27, 1912), pp. 1239-40. This issue of the Gazette in on-line at Google Books. "The wooden freight c

Many thanks to Tony Thompson, Tom Madden, and Al Campbell for clarifying that "C" type cars are "Coal" cars - meaning gons and hoppers. I spot checked the car numbers provided in the four different tr

Hi Everyone This is a summary report for a Union Pacific Freight Conductors' Train Book compiled by a conductor named J.A. Traud from October 26, 1951, to December 6, 1951. During this period, Conduct

Thanks to everyone who contributed to answering my question about "When is the grain rush"? My understanding from the various answers is that the grain rush is a local, or at most regional, activity,

Hi Folks When is the grain rush? The reason I ask is that for the next Union Pacific Freight Conductors' Train Book I transcribe I would like to choose a report that includes the grain rush. My Train

Hi Rod All of the CDLX cars were of type "T" (tank), and all were westbound empties with destination "SP". They were on four separate trains with dates 10/9/1938, 10/14/1938, 10/17/1938 (two cars, tog

Hi Everyone Here is a summary of a Union Pacific Freight Conductors' Train Book recorded by a U.P. conductor named Fitz from September 16, 1938 to October 24, 1938. During this time period Conductor F

Hi Everyone Here are the contents of the cars listed in Conductor Fraley's Union Pacific Freight Conductors' Train Book, 9/12/1938 to 10/18/1938. During this time period Fraley rode 43 trains on the U