George is correct, on through lines cars tend to show up somewhat proportionately to the number in the national fleet. Notable cars, like B&O wagon tops and the SAL or PRR, show up in photos of most yards around the country.
Pieter E. Roos --- On Mon, 4/11/11, gsc3 <[email protected]> wrote: > If you lurk on the Steamera Freightcar list and I > know several of us do, you will come to realize you can > justify the oddball car on your layout if you model the > transition era. > Much as been noted about the N&W hopper going > west over Sherman Hill, and I've seen a DVD of a Western of > Alabama boxcar behind a Big Boy. I've seen roundroof > SAL boxcars on the Maine Central headed for Canada. > I'm coming to believe that for the major carriers, > boxcars and some gons and flats were free runners. It > apparently worked like if Southern Railway did 8% of the > national boxcar business then Southern was expected to > contribute 8% of the national boxcar fleet. > BAR and FGE reefers were found in California during > the busy season and in one of my Clinchfield Railroad books > it clearly shows a Burlington Road hopper in the s.w. > Virginia coalfields. > To relate to S, the fact that you are modeling a > particular section of the country doesn't mean you can't run > a SAL or NP boxcar or any other major road from I'm reading > on Steamera Freightcars. Right, Pieter? > > George Courtney > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------ 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/
