This probably just means C&NW did this for some other reason. Only some of the Canadian roads opted into this odd-even numbering thing

If these are the cars I think you're referring to (former UP 160001-160600 & LA&SL 14001-14200), they did appear in GTW listings. 384 cars from the UP 160001-160600 became GTW 160001-160600 in 1937-38

They've obviously updated things, as I was able to find reference to the ORERs (I think their web-based search engine is called CAT-NYP). They're held at their Science & Business branch in Manhattan.

GTR 22550 was built by Canadian Car & Foundry in 8/1912, and had been assigned number CN 342750 with the acquisition of the GTR by Canadian National in 1923. Obviously this particular car was never re

Ben, I checked a few ORERs and came up with this: PRR 648314-648338 (K7) 7/50: 15 4/52-7/52: 3 (as 648317-648326) 1/53: 1 (as 648326) 4/53: 0 PRR 134079-135499 (K7a) 10/63: 3 1/67-4/67: 3 (as 134647-1

Rob, this is a very interesting shot -- I've looked through a lot of equipment registers over the years, and have never seen this car listed. There was a BCER 101, but it too was a propane car built b

Interesting -- let me know what you see. I've been working on the Canadian tank cars story for a while, and it was very interesting to see a car I knew nothing about (and I suspect will know very litt

Gene Green asks: In this case, no. The U.S. Army assigned Txx numbers to test vehicles, and only assigned the Mxx numbers after they had been given production status. If these are the same vehicles re

I had a quick look at my list of reporting marks, and can only find the WEOX ones listed. As far as I can tell, WLOX has never been used. Since I have referenced issues from 1941 and 1943 in the prepa

You must have just missed in Shawn — I see an entry for the Commodities Car Co., Inc. on page 649, with what I presume are the relevant cars listed in various series from CMWX 106-153. It would seem t

I'm glad you found it useful Tom, that's what it's there for -- and I don't have to imagine the time it took to do it! Actually, tracking the reporting marks down is easy -- every ORER has a listing i

On 21-Apr-05, at 12:43 PM, Richard Hendrickson wrote in response to Tom Olsen: A quick look at my reporting marks listing (http://freightcars.nakina.net/report.html) shows that Rohm & Haas were using

Hi Rob: I've just rediscovered a photo buried deep on my hard drive which you will doubtless find interesting -- a close look at the photo shows a tank pressure test of 4-xx-10 (presumably April 1910)

A quick look at my reporting marks list shows that the MOBX reporting mark was first listed in 4/1960. Tim Gilbert noted that MOBX was not listed in his 4/1961 ORER, but this is incorrect -- in fairne

Actually there were three groups of these cars: 25 74'5" cars were constructed by Canadian Car & Foundry in 10-11/1956 under lot 2141 at 570400-570424. 50 more were built in 4/1959 under lot 2257 (570

Imperial Oil had one of the earliest fleet of tank cars in Canada. At some point they and the Transit Company fleet were merged -- I suspect that the Transit Company was a lessor much like UTLX, GATC,

Very simply. These weren't considered private reporting marks, just a different reporting mark for the Santa Fe. Cars with these marks appeared in their section of the ORER with all of their ATSF cars

Actually these cars underwent some serious renumbering during their lives. As far as I can tell, as they were modified (with larger doors, or possibly raised roofs), they would be renumbered, and unde

There was a time when some of the large entries would provide an actual effective date for their roster (I believe the New York Central system did so), and I seem to recall that generally their effect

It's been on my web site since way back when -- it's currently at: www.nakina.net/fclorer.html I can't say that it has been updated in some time (aside from my own holdings). Ian Cranstone Osgoode, On