Posted by: "smithbf36832" DANG! That killed my pet theory, which was that the floor in the doorways had been replaced, given that that was the highest traffic area and subject to the most damage. In f

Obviously there were jointly served mines in Appalachia. I have no idea about the number of these, however. Mike Brock ========= All of the mines on the NF&G were jointly served by C&O and NYC. In PA,

It does remind us that oral history is often inaccurate, as I know from interviewing railroad officials--their memory for specific facts was atrocious. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

Posted by: "timboconnor@..." But Bill, why build a connection at all then? The aerial photo on Mapquest shows standing hopper cars there. I didn't mention it before, since the satellite photo

Posted by: "timboconnor@..." So my guess is that those VGN hoppers came via that line and were interchanged to the C&O at Deep Water. =========== Close, but no cigar ! Problem with that guess

Posted by: "ed_mines" Be careful about believing things just because they are written in books. Errors can be found in even the best researched and written books. In the news media, usually more than

Rather than make responses to all of the posts on this, I'll just summarize my reactions to them. I believe most of the home heating coal in New England was anthracite, which was preferred because it

Lime or limestone for blast furnaces. We're looking at taking some of that Shenadoah Valley product originating on our Waynesboro Branch going to Hurlin Steel at Charleston, WV. Was it hauled in cover

never see a foreign hopper being loaded on the on its main to Newport News. IIRC, these were also loaded at coal mines served by the C&O, not off line mines. Would NRBX be considered "foreign"?, Or ar

Posted by: "Tim O'Connor" >> Malcolm Laughlin wrote: "You would never see a foreign hopper being loaded on the Chessie's Road, p. 171... what's that under the tipple? Hmmmmm. Appears to be a VIRGINIAN

Posted by: "Mike Brock" Bruce, I didn't express myself well. What I meant to say was that Appalachian RRs including Pennsy, C&O, B&O, and N&W would commonly have hoppers of these same RRs in their con

Our club, which operates in 1955, has a bunch of CRD mechanical reefers. I'm trying to develop some realistic waybills for them. Our railroad handles them from connections Richmond to Ohio and beyond

Posted by: "Steve Sandifer" For what it's worth, last week I saw a photo of a PFE reefer (double logo) at a mercantile in Emporia, KS, on ATSF tracks (circa 1950). It had to come from either Topeka, K

Posted by: "Russ Strodtz" I posted a factual record of a days business Eastbound. Did anyone count the number of ERIE car compared to the other roads? Actually I was rather surprised at the volume of

Posted by: "Anthony Thompson" Malcolm Laughlin wrote: I didn't accuse you of cynicism because of the attempts to BUY traffic; I meant instead your apparent belief that it was very effective. =========

I hope members of this group don't think I'm making postings many days after that to which I'm responding. I don't know what's happening, but all of my postings in the recent digest were submitted las

For those who may be interested - I have the 1949 and 1964 NYC Through Freight schedule books on my website: http://www.canadaso uthern.com/ caso/nyc- freight-schedule s.htm And the public fast freigh

Some comments in response to various posting on commodity origins Do you have numbers for that Malcolm? I couldn't help but notice that you left out the entire LA region, from the Simi Valley to River

dominant. Yes, schmoozing was a factor, but performance mattered to PFE: ----------------- It's not cynicism. It' was a well known fact that railroad freight salesmen used their entertainment budgets

In the light of attempts to draw conclusions from freight claims numbers, I thought it might be useful to post this note about how the system worked. It didn't actually work that way. Damage claims we