I don't think Andrew Merrilees archived his material according to source. Having seen the storage boxes at the National Archives, they seem to be grouped alphabetically by owner (mostly, as there are

Bob, Andrew Merrilees died in 1979, with much of his material going to the National Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada) in 1983. They have a web site at: http://www.collectionscanada.

Tom Olson refers to articles submitted to the Keystone that made the editor cringe -- at CN LINES we refer to them as "article kits". We get a partially-written article, a few photos, and an expectati

Further to the AGCX ownership comments: My 7/1923 ORER shows the AGCX reporting mark as belonging to the Akin Gasoline Co., from 7/1937-1/1950 to the Ohio Tank Car Co., from 1/1952-7/1960 to the Vendo

I'm sure you do Tim... but it will be of an Alberta Gas Chemicals car. The AGCX reporting marks were resurrected in 7/1978 for Alberta Gas Chemicals, who then transferred their fleet to Procor in 4/19

On 29-Jan-06, at 9:53 AM, Larry Grubb wrote: and from Richard Hendrickson: I'll offer another narrowing down -- the reporting marks were listed in the back of the January 1946 ORER, but with a note th

I got curious and looked this car up in the January 1961 ORER: It describes this car as an XMP, Box Stl., Composite Superstructure, Single Sheathed. Note J says, "Cars in series 273000-273260 and 2732

As I recall, the message read: "Turkey trots to water. Where is Task Force 34? The whole world wonders". Nimitz was simply asking about the status of Task Force 34 which had been planned to be detache

I think I can definitely say that 63400 (at least that's what the number looks like) is bogus. Although I don't seem to have any listing under that number, it was almost certainly a double-sheathed wo

Brian, the 10/57 ORER shows 75 cars in the series 1201-1275, so this should render the 7/57 listing moot (I think I have that issue around here too, but obviously not on the shelf where it belongs). I

On 2-Nov-06, at 12:55 PM, Anthony Thompson replied: Well, actually both are correct -- from my studies of AAR definitions from the back of ORERs (with issue dates in brackets): "RB" -- Beer and Ice Re

I would say not. According to my listing of AAR reporting marks (www.nakina.net/report.html), the LPTX mark was transferred to North American Car sometime in the July 1932-April 1938 period, and was l

Built by National Steel Car in 7/38. CN later rebuilt this car to 423271 in 4/72 as part of their 1960s-70s-80s boxcar refurbishment programs. More specifically, built by National Steel Car in 3/18 as

The HK designation was added with the ARA revision effective March 1, 1929 according to the section at the back of the February 1929 ORER. Referring to the same section in the December 1928 ORER (revi

I'm not sure about the trucks, as I don't have very many GTW data sheets, and none covering these cars -- the model however, will be a definite stretch as the GTW 516600-516899 series was built by Pul

More than a little iffy for this crowd. The model is of a late NSC 40-foot boxcar with an 8' door (and for that matter not far from an ECC car of the same time), acquired by CN in 1956-57, and by CP I

Aha, one I can answer... GTW, XAP, Auto, 572700-572799, 40'6", 6'0", 80000, 39 GTW, XAP, Auto, 572800-572999, 40'6", 6'0", 80000, 67 Both of these series are rebuilds from GTW's 575000-575999 series,

Forwarded as per Stafford Swain's request near the bottom of this message... Ian Cranstone Osgoode, Ontario, Canada lamontc@... http://freightcars.nakina.net http://siberians.nakina.net Begin f

The 11xxx block on CN was reserved for box-baggage cars (passenger service), which is why they didn't appear in the ORERs -- although 10xxx express reefers did. Go figure! Anyways, the 11069 was part

These cars were built 2-3/52. Add to this CN 521497-521499 built 1/46 as experimental aluminum boxcars -- for some reason these three cars were never noted in the ORER as being anything unusual. CN al