[Date Prev][Date Next] [Chronological] [Thread] [Top]

Re: (erielack) Freight Car Mix

Ed Barry and All,

The other comment I would make is that the composition of the "fleet" 
relative to the mix of types of cars is important as well and depends on the 
era modeled.  For the EL era, I personally couldn't comment, but as an 
example the DL&W in the 1940s/1950s would have had a lot more coal hoppers 
relative to other types of cars, almost no stock cars and just a handful of 
reefers.

The ELHS offers an EL freight car equipment book which should provide the 
numbers of different types of cars owned by the EL which can be converted to 
percentages for your model RR.

Bill Botkin
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:48 PM
Subject: RE: (erielack) Freight Car Mix


>> Hello again group-was wondering if anyone out there has done
>> any research into the mix of freight cars on the EL-have
>> noticed on several other web sites that there is discussion
>> about the mix or percentage of home road cars vs. foreign
>> road cars and the most common foreign road cars in that
>> mix-if anyone has similar info for the EL would appreciate
>> hearing from you the information would be most helpful in
>> filling out a freight car roster for my HO layout.Hope to
>> hear from you all soon.
>> Thanks-
>> Ed Barry
>
>
> Ed,
>
> General rule of thumb is that 20% of your freight equipment should be
> home road cars (in EL's case, mostly EL with a token few Erie and fewer
> still DL&W, depending on what year you model)
>
> I find photos useful as a guideline as well. I notice there's a big
> predominance of Penn Central equipment in mid-to-later EL years (after
> all, they had the most freight cars nationwide!). And of course,
> depending on the area you're modeling, you'll see certain roads' cars
> over and over again (CP and CN newsprint cars, State of Maine boxcars,
> etc.)
>
> I'm trying to stick with the "20% EL" rule and mixing up the rest.
> Additionally, you should give heavier weighting to connecting road cars
> (think D&H, PC/PRR/NYC, N&W, ATSF, BN+variants)
>
> - Paul
>
> The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List
> Sponsored by the ELH&TS
> http://www.elhts.org
> To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html
>
>
>
> -- 
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.13/1167 - Release Date: 
> 12/3/2007 12:20 PM
>
> 


	The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List
	Sponsored by the ELH&TS
	http://www.elhts.org
	To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html

------------------------------