I think they've been pulling items off; I found a bunch of ORERs posted possibly a year ago and sent a posting to the group. Searching a couple of months later with the same search terms, more than ha

I believe they do; there was an email posted to some of the groups from the former editor stating he had sold them the rights Roger Hinman

If your'e going to make a trip to Harrisburg, be sure to go through the Standard Steel Co Hopper drawings, as there are GAs for the cars they built Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this message have

The PA State Archives at Harrisburg probably has it. Given Rich supplied the number you may be able to order it remotely but you'd get hit with a research and copy fee Roger Hinman [Non-text portions

NYC Drawing N-50358 is available on CD083 of the NYCHS drawing collection. This drawing was used when AB brakes were applied to the USRA cars. Do you know who the builder of this particular series was

In addition to Google books, there is a large treasure trove of older railroad magazines at this site: Volumes are not availabe in pdf but single pages are and can be downloaded as pdf filed http://ba

Many cement containers had fittings for air pressure houses so the dry powder could be pumped out. Gondolas with this feature generally had holes cut in the sides for the hoses to fit in Roger Hinman

You can find these statistics in the annual reports filed to the ICC by the railroads. The hard part is finding the ICC reports. I was able to get access to quite a few of the NYCL reports because the

These were rebuilds of the MDT 5000 and 3500 series composite reefers done in 1954-56 using Despatch Ends. Since the rebuild used an older under-frame with a full length side sill, the side panel heig

try rhinman@... Roger Hinman

The erection drawing for Lot 671-H (General Arrgt, ERoch drawing 10472) is on their CD 106. That same CD has 8 other detail drawings of this car., and has a couple of detail drawings for the Lot 680-H

The erection drawing for Lot 747-H (General Arrangment, NYC drawing Z-52848) is available in the NYCHS drawing collection. To get the drawing you would have to order their CD159 which includes a misma

A small quantity of Lot 747H cars were insulated and leased by MDT under RSGX reporting marks for Revere Sugar in Charlestown, MA. These cars were painted black but I believe that was a Revere scheme

The various ends and roofs on these cars were covered in my May 2002 Mainline Modeler article; there were five different ends used over the 12 year production period. Another nit, Illinois Central lea

http://www.steamfreightcars.com/prototype/photo/hopkinspdfmain.html There's one photo available in the Chas Wales collection Roger Hinman [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Just the 36 footers, the 34 foot cars weren't worth the investment Roger Hinman

In my response I considered the sills as part of the body structure The underframe being the bolsters and the needle beam. I'm in 100% agreement with you on the break in dates of steel. Once steel is

The needlebeam support is wood whereas everything in the under-frame by this time was iron or steel, hence painting it a different color made some sense. It was very common on 19th century cars to pai

The bow almost seems exagerated in that photo; there's another builder's photo of a car from the same series on the Wikipedia articlel for MDT which I beleive is also from the Detroit Publishing colle

There is a whole new crop of ORERs on Google Books in the 1900-1910 time frame Roger Hinman