I have no knowledge of him being ill. The website is up and he still runs ads in the magazines -- usually small ads in the back. The 50' car is listed on the website as new http://ribsidecars.com/ Ric

The Patton Clay Manufacturing Company located in Patton, Pennsylvania on the Cresson Secondary of the Pennsylvania Railroad shipped paving bricks in boxcars on pallets with straw between the layers an

Since its founding in 1759 Pittsburgh, PA has been spelled with an "h" except for 11 years from 1890 - 1911. In 1890 the United States Board of Geographic Names ruled that the "h" was to be dropped by

Coors was not available on the East Coast until the 80's so beyond the time frame of this list. It gained recognition in the East when it became known that is was Henry Kissenger's beer of choice. Pri

Neither. Express service in Passenger trains. Rich Orr

If you go to a local sportsman's club you will likely find someone who loads their own shells and be willing to sell you a few pounds of shot. Rich Orr I am looking for someone who might be willing to

The PRR and Erie both handed off cars to the NH for Boston delivery. Not sure what the NYC did but suspect they would be handled by the B&A absent other routing by the shipper. Rich Orr

Note the ARA classification in the lower right BX. This is a passenger express service boxcar. If I recall correctly there were 5 of these cars built. If you are not running passenger mail/express tra

PRR time from Chicago to Greenville (NYC) 40 hours via Columbus almost all perishables went via Columbus not Crestline PRR Time E St Louis to Greenville (NYC) 47 hours 15 mins From 1952 freight schedu

The ICC no longer exists. The Surface Transportation Board replaced it as far a Railroads are concerned. All of the ICC holdings were sent to the Denver Public Library where if I understand correctly

It is in the Pennsylvania State Archives MG 286 Quarterly Reports of Freight Commodity Statistics to the ICC, 1938-1940. (.25 cu. ft.) {#286m.18} Rich Orr

None of it is online other than a list of the MG and brief description of each group. You need to go to the state archives in Harrisburg Rich Orr

Yet there is photographic evidence of significant numbers of western and mid-west cars in PRR stock trains particularly FW-8. Rich Orr

There were 634 cars remaining in 1953; 6 in 1958 and 1 in 1963. Photos post 1951 are going to be rare as the class was rapidly being scrapped. In 1953 the following series still contained active cars:

Tim, The B&O acquired them as transfers from the C&O when the C&O took financial control of the B&O. There were a number of classes of B&O cars that were old C&O cars sent to the B&O to shore-up their

Dealer orders were due 9/4 with a delivery date of spring 2016. Rich Orr

Tony, I am a BLI dealer and I will be splitting the 4 packs to sell single cars. Just let me know what you want. I generally price 10% over my cost plus shipping and I do not yet know what the discoun

George, PRR used the following National trucks based on a PRR typed list of truck classes and classes of cars to which applies. You can find the list at http://prr.railfan.net/freight/PRRFreightCarTru

They also hauled limestone. There are photos of these cars with return to Belfonte, PA when empty. These cars were used for limestone from the quarries on the Belfonte Central and the Belfonte Branch

John contact me off list I still have a few left in stock. Rich Orr suvcworr@...