Schuyler's consist gave me a way to celebrate the acquisiton a 1959 ORER yesterday at the Springfield show. I thought the most interesting car in the train was one of the earliet mechanical reefers. X

Which club are you a member of? Dave Johnson Winchester VA (not far from Gore) ======== North Shore Model Railroad Club. Come and see us if you're ever in the Boston area. Visitors with some knowledge

Our club needs some appropriate covered hoppers for handling fine quality sand to a glass manufacturer. We're in VA. My first thought was to acquire some Wilmington & Western cars. There are many of t

Before 1960 TOFC was not possible on the NYC because of clearances. There were many bridges east of Buffalo with 15'6" clearance. That's why we saw Flexivans on NYC and TOFC on the PRR. Later NYC bega

Posted by: "tgregmrtn@..." > One comes into play (demurrage) as a penalty to the receiver for keeping a car too long. It applied equally to the shipper. Demurrage was not part of car accounting. I

There have been a few items in this discussion on which I hope I can shed some light. Before addressing specific comments, I’d like to note that we should be careful to distinguish between accounting

Posted by: "John Hile" I did, however, upload a pdf scan to the STMFC file area of Rule 36 from Tariff 13 (file name: P P Tariff 13 Rule 36) which gives the general rules for furnishing refrigerator c

Posted by: "Gatwood, Elden J SAD" On digging out more of my discussion notes, I came across some I had written up several years ago on additives, as was curious if you all could ID what roads they mig

Posted by: "ed_mines" Captions in a NKP publicity photo book said that most coal on the NKP was moved in C&O hoppers. My assumption was that the NKPs own hoppers were used to ship company coal. (The b

Russ didn't seem to make this clear, but you shouldn't be moving crushed glass in happers until after glass recycling got to large enough volumes, way out of the era of this list. I can tell you where

Posted by: "George" I remember running upon a NKP hopper in southwest Virginia on a N&W branch back in the nineteen seventies. This was following the merger of the two roads. Kinda limits us steam era

I'm suprised that no one has mentioned construction aggregates (sand, stone and gravel) as one of the major uses of hopper cars. The Norflok Southern had a large hopper fleet, and its main use was con

Posted by: "Ljack70117@..." When I was on the RRs the only Bauxite I ever saw was loaded in Box cars. Thank you Larry Jackman ============== On the NYC we moved a lot of bauxite from the Port

Russ, I read your response with great interest. There were many different practices, and I think we are closing in on the array of options which modelers can choose among for their own railroad. It ha

Apart from my resonse to Russ, which will follow shortly, I'd like to mention how our club simulates empty car waybills. We have quite a number of waybills which are removed from the car pocket after

A few points that I haven't seen addressed explicitly in this thread. a) Looking at a 200 mile radius, here are some marks that you would have a good chance of seeing on cement cars in Connecticut - L

Posted by: "Allen Rueter" The Wabash between Detroit and Buffalo, and CASO come to mind =========== Yes for Wabash, but likely not for CASO. A car via CASO would be routed NYC, and you could not speci

Posted by: "Russ Strodtz" I'd like to make a few commnets on Russ's post based on my recollections from the 60's when I was involved with car distribution. =================== back to Canada. I respon

The statistics are interesting but I'm not sure they tell us anything about Granger roads. Here is a list sorted by agricultural percentage in three categories; 1. Granger roads 2. Partially in Grange