QUOTE: Originally posted by JimRCGMO Somewhere a while back, I had run across some figures (percentages?) for what part of the cars on a railroad were from that RR line,...
QUOTE: Originally posted by DSchmitt You can crunch statictics about car types and ownership all you want, but that will never tell you what mix you should have to be prototypical at a given location (or even a general area) and time period.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy In a general sense, the annual ORER's are what you're looking for. These listed the number and types of cars each railroad owned during that year. ...<snip> As an alternative, the NEB&W website lists compilations of this same data on their website: http://railroad.union.rpi.edu It's a pay site, but full of more information than you can buy in the printed word for it's annual fee. Join monthly, and it's the cost of a magazine.
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Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943