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Re: (erielack) Freight Car Mix

Paul, 
What would be the mix of 40' vs 50' box cars around the mid sixties.

Vic Caddy


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From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 11:48 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
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