PFE surely, and most of the other major refrigerator lines, but between SHS woodsides and the PRS steel cars, I think that has been well-served by the mass-market sources. There has been extensive discussion over the years on the STMFC chatlist about freight car distribution, and my general impression is that coal, as a relatively low-tariff commodity, didn't travel cross-country as a usual thing.
Since I got into S scale, it just seems to have happened that a large proportion of my roster is hoppers, almost all for northeastern roads (which prototypically did own the largest numbers of them, since that is where most of it, pre-open-pit days, originated)--probably a good third of what I own. Could also be that SHS makes such nice cars that it is hard to resist buying them; without actually counting, I'd guess probably more than half of what I've bought is SHS, with AM next. I buy the PRS kits when I find them, but now that they are no longer available as kits, that has been slower. The granger roads also had a fair number of hoppers, although they tended to use a higher proportion of gondolas, especially the GS drop-bottoms, than eastern roads. With modern computer inventory methods, it should not be too difficult to monitor production, so I wonder if Don has previously indicated a rough breakdown of which car types he's sold so far. Billboard refrigerator cars are so attractive (and I am not impervious to their charm) that they skew the normal prototype distribution among modelers, but otherwise I'd think the higher numbers would be for boxcars and hoppers, at least for those who model the transition era. Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > --- In [email protected], JGG KahnSr <jacek...@...> wrote: > > My long-standing thesis is that there are at least a half-dozen distinctive > > prototype freight cars which were routinely interchanged during the > > steam/early diesel era so many of us favor, and that a serious modeler of > > that period ought to have at least one each: MILW ribside, B&O wagontop, > > PRR X29, N&W peak-end twin hopper, and, of course, the GLca (others would > > occur to me if I thought a bit longer). > > Judging by the numbers sent east the PFE reefer would be on the list. > I guess it depends on the local traffic patterns but here in santa cruz. > the hoppers and gons were all SP in the 50's as most aggregate products came > from within the central part of the state and used captive cars.I can't > recall a foreign road hopper on the branch line till around 1980 when they > starting importing mountain state coal to the davenport cement plant in MP , > DRG&W ,and UP hoppers.....dave [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
