Ed, Pieter and All;

Google up 49 CFR 231.27, paragraph I .

There are probably regional, class and historical variations on this term, just 
as there are on many others.  I don’t care what they’re called on the Pennsy or 
the New York Central, in my basement they’re called roofwalks, just as the real 
Monon railroaders called them!

Roger Nulton  

From: Ed 
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 8:24 PM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Running Boards

  
> It said "Keep off roof, no Running Board."
> That ended the discussion.
> Tom Hawley

The Official NYC book "Diagrams, Dimensions & Classification of Freight Cars" 
has a dimension of length shown like this:

"42'3" over running boards"

This terminology is repeated for each different boxcar. 

Must be true that "roofwalks" is a modeling invention -- sort of like 
"turnouts".

Cheers...Ed L.





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