Depending on what assumptions you make, you can spend 5 to ten cents a car just doing the check. How does it help finding a lost car. Take for example a yard with 1000 cars. I'd estimate that's about

The Jan., 1953 ORER shows the NYO&W as having 146 cars suitable for interchange. For an over 400-mile Class One pike, this road must have had substantial per diem costs. No wonder that they went under

Not sure what you mean by this. All per diem was netted every month between every pair of railroads and money was exchanged. Except for the extremely inprobable event that two railroads had equla numb

Posted by: "water.kresse@..." Coal and Freight Manifest classification yards were separated many times. -------------------- Never heard of that, except for storage near water transfers. There

I think that there might be several problems with this approach but the biggest problem is that you need to evaluate the numbers for one place in one time period. You can't combine different places. I

Entirely true. At some point the ORER was legally made part of the tariff structure, thus giving an impetus for reporting to be as accurate as possible--maybe in that 1912-1913 time frame. -----------

special form. Two copies were sent to the accounting department and two copies to the car department and one filed in the files where they were recorded. This was done on the whole RR and was done on

Here's another interesting source of discrepancies between the ORER and what was out on the railroad. Ever wonder about those long lists of exceptions for a car seires that listed cars with special eq

Posted by: "Jack Burgess" jack@... yvrrus But wouldn't that information be needed every day to pay for per diem charges? ============ An interesting point Jack. Sorry I didn't think o

Posted by: "Rob Kirkham" > Given the assertion (and I doubt any will argue it) that the ORER lists would include equipment that was not really available for service - whether retired or in storage or

Bruce said I've already said that I agree that absent any better data the national proportion is a good starting point in that it gives better percentages than zero or 100 %. But, for the many reasons

...........-Jeff Grain from Kansas and Nebraska, lumber form CA and the PNW come to mind immediately, and anything originating on the DRGW. Note that CB was up a long single track secondary line while

I have photocopies of some ledger sheets prepared by the YV for the Association of American Railroads for a report entitled "Empty Cars on Hand as of Specific Date" which lists the empty cars on the Y

I will try to keep my response to this afternoon’s postings in the spirit of the following from Mike Brock. Tony said Trying to observe last four words of the above quopte from Mike, I can sympathize

Malcolm, For fleet selection, the idea of adding a "weight" to the percentage of each railroad's fleet is appealing to me. This encompasses the idea of "home road", and "close affiliates". For the hom

Posted by: "wmcclark1980" What we have is the problem that always occurs when using statistics. Most people won't accept that a relatively small sample size can forecast much larger populations with e

I have to respond that I agree with the last item in this digest just because I so often take exception to what Tim says, but this time I'm right with him. Malcolm Laughlin, Editor 617-489-4383 New En

Posted by: "timboconnor@..." It's all relative Dave. A trickle on the SP would be a flood on the D&RGW. By the 1960's SP itself strongly preferred the long way around for lumber -- Oregon to S

Perhaps the original staement should have been SQUARELY on the head. I've bent a lot of nails. Malcolm Laughlin, Editor 617-489-4383 New England Rail Shipper Directories 19 Holden Road, Belmont, MA 02