As a favor to Jeff English, I included the Rutland data in some copying I did this afternoon -- transfered it to my standard excel format for this kind of data and posted it to the files list here at

Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: Well, almost correct. Once again, in the interest of accuracy, according to an article in the July 1974 issue of the NYC Headlight, the date of change in

Thought I'd add a description of the material I was working with yesterday at Stanford: 1) Carload Waybill Analysis, 1950 - State to state distribution of Products of Forests. 2) Carload Waybill Analy

John Nehrich wrote: Then Richard wrote: Rural dirt yellow and industrial black make Pullman Green? I wonder where Dubin came up with that notion, which I find seriously lacking in credibility. Copper

Brock's Fourth Law [ or was it the third? ] of Freight Cars is broken. Previously I had been led to believe that Santa Fe reefers only traveled on UP tracks in a westward direction [ implying being em

We were in Montreal for our usual anniversary celebration Christmas week when we got word of the impending snow storm at home. Got home on Saturday @ 2:30 AM only to find a box from Bob Walker w/100 p

I know that the CN had straight side flats akin to the Tichy kit, but they also had cars in the 659000 series (the number Red Caboose uses). Were these also straight side cars? Did they have 12 pocket

Both Intermountain and Red Caboose offer their 1937 AAR box car in the SP's Overnight scheme. As I understand it, this scheme was ONLY applied to cars built with Improved Dreadnaught Ends (but were 10

Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: AFAIK, the only NY wineries that bring in CA wine are the larger corporate operations such as Taylor. There is a considerable wine industry in four region

But getting back to the original reason I asked about this - since the TW cars lasted until '49 at least, which of the Red Caboose cars might have lasted past 1938 or were repainted in more modest sch

Larry Kline asked me to post this. This looks like a great event. Prototype Modelers Seminar - East 2001 1:00 PM Friday, March 23 through 6:00 PM Saturday, March 24, 2001 Holiday Inn, Monroeville (Pit

Regarding cross posting (i.e., posting messages simultaneously to this list and FC): I dunno what the list owner prefers, so Mike, speak up here, but for myself, I *strongly* prefer people do not cros

I asked the PM-list: George Hollwedel replied If you get answers back direct, please send me cc's as I am doing the N ones as well. Hi George, Well, the silence has been deafening. It's sort of funny

I always wonder about the railroad's philosophy of ever stronger ends to deal with shifting loads. It's as if auto makers worried about making ever stronger windshields rather than sitbelts and air ba

Hi John: The 659000-659999 and similar 660000-6601999 series flat cars have been given a fairly complete treatment by me in two issues of CN LINES (Vol. 5 No.'s 3 and 4) [high quality Back Issue copie

I've posted three builder's photos (PRR, GTW, and N&W) and lots of information on the new Tichy War Emergency gons at: http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/Rolling-stock/Kits/Tichy-kits.html I'll

f.y.i. Somebody offering Coughlin's book on ebay. It's an extremely thorough, official AAR book on the theory of freight car handling, ca. 1956. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=

Went hunting for the "Berol Prismacolor" white pencils today. At my local "Aaron Brothers" store I found "Sanford Prismacolor" pencils. Some of their 'magic markers' had either one name or the other o

Be aware that Cal-Scale (Bowser) has PERMANENTLY discontinued their part #199-290 and #190-291, which were KC brake sets in plastic and brass respectively!! The mold is worn out/damaged, and since the

These numbers are starting to get ridiculus. I was quoted $1700 for a "double side puller" mold for a pair of chilled iron wheels and a tapered axle in S scale. When I got a re-quote, eliminating the