Hi Roger; I'm sure there is variation from line to line, especially differences in what operating employees and the engineering employees use. It's not a "Pennsy" thing, however. I just looked in the 1953 Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) and one of the columns specifies "Height from rail to top of running board". Also the AAR "Interchange Rules" dated 1960 has no index entry for "Roof Walk" but four entries for "Running Boards".
Pieter Roos --- In [email protected], "Roger Nulton" <roger.nul...@...> wrote: > > It's good that you have an open mind about this, Pieter. According to a shop > foreman and an engineer that I asked, the Monon called them "roof walks". Of > course, the Pennsy was the "Standard Railway of the World", while the modest > Monon was just a short line, relatively speaking. > > Roger Nulton > > From: Pieter Roos > Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 4:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Model Memories Running Boards > > > It appears that the railroad engineering departments called them "running > boards" on freight cars. As an example, see the PRR diagram of an an X43 > boxcar here: > > http://prr.railfan.net/freight/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=x43.gif&fr=cl ------------------------------------ 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/
