For those of you that are looking for typewriter-like fonts for modeling steam-era freight car waybills, I've prepared a resource of some fonts I've found that may be useful. You can find them at: htt

I’ve tabulated some of the relevant statistics from the 1% Carload Waybill Survey that are available for download. Those interested can find the files (one pdf, one Excel) here: https://cnwmodeling195

Tim O'Connor wrote: Wonderful stuff - one major oddity however. You wrote "In 1957 there were about 62.7 million carloads reported by the Class 1 carriers in the FCS." Carloadings in the 1950's were a

Hello Group, Tony Thompson's talk at RPM Chicagoland this last October got me interested in rail shipments of wine. I've compiled a bunch of data, and am documenting the wine commodity flow in the lat

Andy Laurent and I are continuing our examination of the Ahnapee & Western waybill collection. For those interested, the latest post can be found here: http://cnwmodeling1957.typepad.com/cnwmodeling/2

Tony and others interested, I've tabulated the ICC statistics for 4 dairy product commodity classes and you can find them in Excel files here: http://cnwmodeling1957.typepad.com/cnwmodeling/2017/09/st

Kurt, You could use Sheridan Iron Works, in Sheridan, on the CB&Q. They made sheet steel as well as tubing. Regards, Charles Hostetler Washington Ill

Hi Jim, I took a quick look for shipments of coal to California, Oregon, and Washington In 1951 and 1952 from the 1% Waybill Survey. These figures are carloads in the sample; to estimate carloads per

I thought some might be interested in the annual carloads of coal in the 1% ICC Carload Waybill Sample that ended up in California (to estimate the total annual carload shipments multiply by 100): To

Are the Atlas/Branchline 1100 series kits and associated detail sprues the only available sources for Despatch ends and roofs in HO? Thanks, Charles Hostetler Washington Ill.

Hi Mark, NOS stands for Not Otherwise Specified. This is for the ICC 1948 through 1963 versions of the Commodity Classification Codes. Other commodity classification systems in the late steam era used

Good evening all, I created a new folder in the files area for transcribed ICC freight commodity statistics. The ICC published these statistics yearly based on information filed by each Class 1 Carrie

Hi Charles, All of the ETCX photos I have seen show cars built by AC&F. You can find ETCX 230 in the No. 12 Train Shed Cyc on page 314 (from 1940), ETCX 210 on page 134 of Kaminski's Tank Cars AC&F, a

Todd Sullivan wrote "A question: How did you determine the number of interchanges for each load? I understand the numbers of originating ("Orig") and terminating ("Term") loads, but I didn't think you

Tony: Thanks for your recent post regarding modeling waybills depicting perishable diversions and reconsignments. As you pointed out, a number of commodities were moved with diversions. A while back I

These are a few more observations from the national 1% carload waybill sample that I thought were interesting before starting to tabulate the state-to-state statistics. - the 1951 - 1953 Canadian/Mexi

These are the distribution of cars types for carload cement shipments from 1947 through 1960: Year X R S G H F L T 1947 3,628 3 14 22 44 1 801 0 1948 1949 4,183 1 0 1 5 0 1,551 0 1950 4,054 31 1 1 1 0

I compiled these national data for rail shipments of portland cement from the 1%Carload Waybill Survey. The second column is carloads in the 1% sample; to estimate total national carloads multiply by

Greg wrote in part: "We have to presume that the IHC was reported into the NYC numbers for revenue purposes, just as the Sacramento Northern was in the WP numbers. For the LA Basin I am not sure who w

These data are from the 1% Carload waybill survey. They are all shipments of lumber, shingles, and lath (commodity class 411) from Oregon. They represent a sample of 1 waybill out of every 100 termina