I have uploaded a file Excel spreadsheet) I create a number of years ago which shows each road and cars owned by type for 1953. The data can be sorted by road name, total fleet size or number of cars

The site has an expired digital certificate. So depending on how your firewall is set and your antivirus, it will abort or ask if you want to run the program pr just run it anyway. The certificate is

Tony, If you open the pdf file, you will find the spring edition is number 76. The link on the website has the wrong number. Rich Orr

Union Railroad was owned by US Steel and served the Edgar Thompson (Rankin and Braddock) works, Duquesne Works (Duquesne PA) and Homestead works (Homestead, PA). All located up river from Pittsburgh o

The prevention of disease would be of much greater concern to someone shipping spring calves to the Midwest for "finishing" than to someone shipping stock to slaughter, where the stock likely had less

See Ben Hom's article in the B&O Modeler Vol 2 No 3 May'June 2006 available from the B&O Historical Society on CD. Rich Orr

Bruce, My intent was not to give a hard and fast timetable schedule but rather to point out that there was plenty of time to adhere to the 28 hour rule and no need for waivers. At least for the FW-8.

The times quoted in the Keystone article must be referring to the late 60's. That is when the FW-8 departed Chicago at 1:00 AM. From the 1952 freight train schedules and make-up of trains the FW-8 dep

Tim, PFtW&C = Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago = PRR PCC&StL = Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis = PRR Panhandle route Rich Orr

Allen, I just accessed it with Mozilla and Safari Rich Orr

Actually, the Barrett tank cars only shipped to distributors March 8th and to dealers approximately 2 weeks ago. The reefers shipped last September. Atlas has been months behind their project schedule

To respond to Bill Welch's request There were 165+ attendees at the RPM East held in Greensburg, PA this year. Last count I heard for models on display was slightly over 400. There was a wide range of

Gene, It is right there on BLI's site under delivery schedule. Fourth item -- March, 2011. Which will probably pass without shipping as I have not received my bill, yet. Rich Orr

Greg, According to 1952 freight car schedules, PRR was running the following east bound livestock trains: SW-8 rest and water at Columbus no stop Herr's Island PH-10 lives stock block terminated Herr'

There is a 1936 Popular Mechanics article about the use of Cor-Ten steel in freight cars. It can be found at http://books.google.com/books?id=CdsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA663&lpg=RA1-PA663&dq= cor+ten+steel+

PM was owned by C&O. C&O was part of Fruit Growers Express. Good bet cars were FGEX or foreign cars being backloaded. Rich Orr

Could be because Branchline no longer is Branchline. Everything was sold to Atlas and Atlas is not providing parts yet. While Branchline will supposedly honor the warranty until Dec 31, 2011, I don't

If you look at the couplers in the photos of each road not the art work at the top, you will see these are photos of N scale cars. The N scale car is an 8 panel car. For some unexplained reason they m

As far as I can tell it is the 2 bay offset they have been making. Product # 7039 Blt 1948 with a 1952 shop date. Rich Orr

Tony, The National Railroad Historical Society lists LRX as the reporting marks for Lackawanna Refrigerator Line (Merchants Despatch Transportation Corp.). Rich Orr