Great pics. Small correction, Canadian National Railways records show this car as being built in June 1908. It would later be assigned CN 316672 in 1920, and was likely renumbered during the next few

Mike, many of the ORERs from those years are indeed available at Google books... but, not on the Canadian side of the border -- Google knows, and will not allow full downloads outside of the U.S. Sear

Thank you Tony for a wonderful plug for my efforts. I had originally scanned these mostly for my own use, as the original volumes were starting to fall apart, but also in hopes that it will help other

I wish I could tell you that there was a way to automate the car count, but no, they were counted by hand page by page... but I did let an Excel spreadsheet calculate the totals for me! I am indeed wo

I'd put money down that flat #651498 was a Canadian National car -- these were 41' flats originally built for the Canadian Northern in 1918/19. Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@...

I can't tell you the story behind them, but these cars are all classed LTA, which is a tank car converted to handle dry granular commodities (essentially a tank car converted to a covered hopper). I'd

Eric, both the July 1942 and October 1942 ORERs show UP 961134-961182, 4 cars, inside height 12'4". Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@... http://freightcars.nakina.net

I'm not a BAR expert, but a look through ORERs of the period shows the 65000-65649 series cars being renumbered 5000-5649 between 1950 and 1955. I believe 65000-65499 were built by Magor in 1938, and

OK I've digitized two volumes (June 1936 and September 1955) so far, which can be found at lulu.com -- they're not searchable on the site, but can be found directly at: http://www.lulu.com/shop/ian-cr

This will depend on the ORER being referenced, as this extra material only appeared in certain eras. That being said, my July 1955 ORER has the aforementioned Bulletin 28, and this is followed by a li

I'm assuming for interchange, given that these cars were numbered PGER 3045-3099 & PGER 20500-24499 (PGER reporting marks were for international use), but these cars weren't acquired until 1974. Ian C

I'll narrow it down further. This line last appeared in the July 1960 ORER. Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@... http://freightcars.nakina.net

I think the reporting mark was more likely CASO (Canada Southern). Their 138000-138299 series were a series of steel boxcars rebuilt from older cars in 1937. Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lam

Actually Tim, according to the 1955 Tank Car Capacities volume, 3 compartment tank cars are nearly three times as common as 2 compartment cars. The statistics are: 1.377 2 compartment cars 3.759 3 com

I've just been compiling fleet numbers from the 1955 Tank Car Capacities volume. Although this volume doesn't offer any information about colours, at that time there were about 185,000 tank cars in se

The domes on these cars were absolutely huge, at 746 gallons (which works out to about 7.3% on these 10100 gallon cars), and it does look as if a regular tank car end was applied instead of a regular

Actually, if you have a closer look you'll notice a hatch on the top of the tank body at the near end. It turns out that UTLX 81014 is a tank car that has had a second conversion, this time to an AAR

I don't know about a prohibition, but Canadian National decided in later years that they were not a fan of the design. There were notes on a few diagram sheets by the 1970s that National B-1 trucks we

If GTW had assigned such cars, it wasn't noted in the ORER. However, I suspect that all that would have been required was a car without auto loading racks, which doubtless would have gotten in the way

Add Canadian Pacific to that list -- I have both photos and general arrangement drawings of ones they constructed during the 1930s. Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@... http://fre