Hi Roger; I did, box cars without roof HATCHES. Text seems to use running board consistantly.
As I said, call the either and I'm sure some operating employees used terms not recognized in the engineering or regulatory documents. Pieter Roos Sent from my iPhone On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:09 AM, "Roger Nulton" <[email protected]> wrote: 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. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ 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/
