I received this question earlier today, but don't have any ideas as to where to start looking for the answer to this one. Any suggestions are welcome. Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@na

Dave, I have attached a photo of CN 514297 taken at Port Ellice, B.C. at an unknown date (but you will notice that the last reweigh date is in August 1955). Obviously the photo will be stripped from t

I had a quick look through my ORERs, and this particular series seems to have appeared between the July 1935 and July 1937 issues. Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@... http://frei

Marty, the following is from my explorations through equipment registers. As you can see, they first opted to list those cars equipped with panel sides (10/37-1/40), then listed cars without panel sid

There are doubtless others, but my effort can be found at: www.nakina.net/aartype.html Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@... http://freightcars.nakina.net http://siberians.nakina.n

These cars were built 2-3/52. Add to this CN 521497-521499 built 1/46 as experimental aluminum boxcars -- for some reason these three cars were never noted in the ORER as being anything unusual. CN al

The 11xxx block on CN was reserved for box-baggage cars (passenger service), which is why they didn't appear in the ORERs -- although 10xxx express reefers did. Go figure! Anyways, the 11069 was part

Forwarded as per Stafford Swain's request near the bottom of this message... Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@... http://freightcars.nakina.net http://siberians.nakina.net Begin f

Aha, one I can answer... GTW, XAP, Auto, 572700-572799, 40'6", 6'0", 80000, 39 GTW, XAP, Auto, 572800-572999, 40'6", 6'0", 80000, 67 Both of these series are rebuilds from GTW's 575000-575999 series,

More than a little iffy for this crowd. The model is of a late NSC 40-foot boxcar with an 8' door (and for that matter not far from an ECC car of the same time), acquired by CN in 1956-57, and by CP I

I'm not sure about the trucks, as I don't have very many GTW data sheets, and none covering these cars -- the model however, will be a definite stretch as the GTW 516600-516899 series was built by Pul

The HK designation was added with the ARA revision effective March 1, 1929 according to the section at the back of the February 1929 ORER. Referring to the same section in the December 1928 ORER (revi

Built by National Steel Car in 7/38. CN later rebuilt this car to 423271 in 4/72 as part of their 1960s-70s-80s boxcar refurbishment programs. More specifically, built by National Steel Car in 3/18 as

I would say not. According to my listing of AAR reporting marks (www.nakina.net/report.html), the LPTX mark was transferred to North American Car sometime in the July 1932-April 1938 period, and was l

On 2-Nov-06, at 12:55 PM, Anthony Thompson replied: Well, actually both are correct -- from my studies of AAR definitions from the back of ORERs (with issue dates in brackets): "RB" -- Beer and Ice Re

Brian, the 10/57 ORER shows 75 cars in the series 1201-1275, so this should render the 7/57 listing moot (I think I have that issue around here too, but obviously not on the shelf where it belongs). I

I think I can definitely say that 63400 (at least that's what the number looks like) is bogus. Although I don't seem to have any listing under that number, it was almost certainly a double-sheathed wo

As I recall, the message read: "Turkey trots to water. Where is Task Force 34? The whole world wonders". Nimitz was simply asking about the status of Task Force 34 which had been planned to be detache

I got curious and looked this car up in the January 1961 ORER: It describes this car as an XMP, Box Stl., Composite Superstructure, Single Sheathed. Note J says, "Cars in series 273000-273260 and 2732

On 29-Jan-06, at 9:53 AM, Larry Grubb wrote: and from Richard Hendrickson: I'll offer another narrowing down -- the reporting marks were listed in the back of the January 1946 ORER, but with a note th