Hi Everyone Barring a white-out blizzard, on February 7, 8, and 9, 2011, four pieces of railroad equipment will be moved from various places around Laramie, Wyoming, to Railroad Heritage Park located

Hello All The recent discussion of baggage cars on freight trains prompted me to estimate how common they were on the Union Pacific mainline between Laramie and Rawlins, Wyoming. The data below are ex

This is very generous of you Larry. Thank you very much! Larry Ostresh Laramie, Wyoming

Hi Jerry Yes, I'll be transcribing them as soon as I have the time. I have a personal interest in them, because my N scale model railroad, the Laramie, North Park and Pacific, is based on this line. F

Hi Folks I found another box of Freight Conductors' Train Books in the Laramie Depot attic the other day. There are 27 of them and they are in addition to the 128 Train Books discovered in the attic a

Hi Mike The cement plant in Laramie has always used local raw materials for its operation. It was built in 1927 as Monolith Portland Cement Company and had its own railroad, the Laramie Valley Railroa

Sherman on the ca. 1901 Harriman line. Highest point on the transcon, but 234 feet lower than Old Sherman. There was a station there through the 1950s, now it is long gone. Mainline tracks 1 & 2 use t

Yes, you are correct. Larry Ostresh

Hi Tim The actual percentage of SP cars from the ORER in 1938 is 3.3%, not the 4% you assume. There are 1,308 non-UP box cars, which I believe is the relevant number, not your 2,400. This gives an ave

Mike, Tim O'connor wrote this, not me. You'll have to ask him where it comes from. Larry Ostresh Laramie, Wyoming

Mike, the data Mark gave me is not a conductor book. It is a listing of the passenger and freight trains that passed Sherman on June 4 and 5, 1949. Their were 16 EB and 15 WB on the 4th, 17 EB and 15

Tim, why don't you just look at the 1951 book yourself and tell us what you find? Scanned pages and an Excel transcription are online at www.laramiedepot.org Why are the 1938 books irrelevant? Larry O

Tim O'Connor said "You say your data show "dominance" of SP cars -- but isn't it just 201 or so SP cars in 34 random trains over a period of a month? Now, that might show "dominance" but it might just

Hi Tim You said "It has nothing to do with the number of trains Larry". My comment about fewer trains raising my percentages was in the context of increasing my sample percentages. Mark Amfahr's data

Tim O'Connor wrote Yes, of course. I would expect therefore that there would have been fewer trains per day in 1938 than in 1949, which would raise my percentages. If you have data showing that the Gr

Tim O'Connor writes: "Larry, does 2,267 box cars on the UP mainline even represent the traffic of a single typical day? So here we are looking at freight trains spread over four months... or on any gi

Howdy Here is an update on the distribution of box and auto cars on the UP between Laramie and Rawlins in 1938, with tables that show the cars classified by the ICC region of the owners. This analysis

Hi Everyone Here is some info on the distribution of box and auto cars for trains on the U.P. mainline between Laramie and Rawlins in 1938. The data are compiled from three Freight Conductors' Train B

FWIW there are 742,546 U.S. box, auto and ventilated cars in the January 1945 ORER. They break down as follows: Class XM: 614,947 Classes XA, XAB, XAF, XAP, XAR: 112,981 Class XF: 1,402 Class XI: 497

Hi Jeff, et al. Here is some more info about SP & WP cars in UP trains in Wyoming between Laramie and Rawlins. The data is from a Freight Conductors' Train Book compiled by Conductor Fitz from Septemb