Schuyler writes:

Clark Propst writes:

Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it. Norman Maclean

George Toman writes:

I agree Bill and this hampers our cause more than you will ever know. I refuse to name names, they know who they are but most of you would really be surprised. The good thing is that the really great

All, I don't think that Scott believes that you can marriage the Intermountain kit with the ACURAIL kit without more consideration. But I do believe it is worthy of the consideration. I have no lack o

Tim, The entire car may need to be cast, that may not be a problem though at least for the sides and ends. This would fit in well with our little selection of double door cars that have started with t

Scott and all, In Scott's reply to Barry he writes:

Bill, Yes I will look at this seriously as a possible SHAKE_N_TAKE build in the future. INTERMOUNTAIN...hmmm that could be tough. Greg Martin Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs thro

Dave, Bill and all, Yes, you can split the ends in half to match the ACURAIL SS car but know going into this that this will shorten the end , which I believe you will need to do, and the rake of the r

Bill, What a great presentation. After seeing the presentation in CCB this past January the repeat was not as scary... 3^) I love to see modeling like this and Schuyler as you well know is on the verg

Pardon me as I intended this to go off list to Don Valentine direct. Greg Martin Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it. Norman Maclean

Don you wrote: "Hi Greg, If you would contact me OFF LIST I would be very interested in some of these kits from Aaron. Thanks so much for advising that some are still available. Cordially, Don Valenti

John, You're kidding right? We did this rebuilt car as a group build on the SHAKE_N_TAKE list in the spring of 2014 using ends and sills cast by Aaron Gjermundson as a mini kit ($10.50). You needed to

Tony, Please... writes: I am not sure you actually meant that the "The delivering road collected the total bill from consignee..." as the initial freight bills were paid to the origin carrier by the s

Tony, Precisely just a car management arm, like REA, the FGEX consortium, and Trailer Train. PFE handled the revenue stream for the railroads they represented, understood, and kept their share regardl

Tony sez: Tony, The way a claim was handed and are still handled is the consignee or his agent reports the damage to the delivering carrier. The clerk on the phone whines and bitches for a half an hou

Tim, It really doesn't matter where the damage occurred as a claim followed the revenue stream and every road shared the burden of the claim in direct proportion to the percentage of mileage/hours gen

Jim, Go to the PRRT&HS website the books are at a good price 50% off retail. http://www.prrths.com/estore/index_estore.html Figures I paid full price. Greg Martin Eventually all things merge into one

Mark and all, In 1950 the New York Central reported to the ICC 44,512 loads of livestock handled. These number likely reflect the IHB numbers reported in the NYC as they IHB numbers were not found sep