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I have another USRA locomotive question. According to Dr.Sylvan Wood, the MK&T was assigned 10 of the Russian decapods: #8000-8002,8005-8007, 8010, 8016, 8029-30. As far as I can tell, these 8000 seri

Hello, In 1919 the USRA allotted the MK&T 10 Baldwin-built USRA 0-8-0s. The Katy refused the engines and they went to the New York Central. Can anyone give me the NYC (and CCC&StL) locomotive numbers

Good News Everybody, Taplines has been updated. The story of the Pennsboro & Harrisville RR and Lorama RR of Ritchie County, WV http://www.taplines.net/LORAMA/LORAMA.html And Russell Tedder has publis

Taplines has been updated - Martel Lumber Company and the Ocala Southwestern Railroad The direct link is here: Martel Lumber Co. - Ocala & Southwestern RR Martel Lumber Co. - Ocala & Southwestern RR -

While most peoples weekends are on Saturday & Sunday, my weekends lately have fallen on Wednesday & Thursday. It was a busy weekend for me, I wrote and edited the Railway & Locomotive Historical Socie

While most peoples weekends are on Saturday & Sunday, my weekends lately have fallen on Wednesday & Thursday. It was a busy weekend for me, I wrote and edited the Railway & Locomotive Historical Socie

Hi Robert, Please contact me off list. Thanks, Allen Stanley Greer, SC For GOD so loved the world that he gave his only begotten SON, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everla

Hi All, For a group with well over a hundred members interested in rosters this is an awfully quiet list. Is anyone working on anything right now? I have finally started in earnest on my all time Sout

Hi All, I am trying to contact a Mr. Eljas Polho in Helsinki, Finland. He is a steam loco researcher and has written several pubs and books. I have an e-mail address for him but it is bouncing. Any he

Folks, I'm looking for a photo of Union Pacific 4-4-0 number 165, later 573. She was built by Taunton in 1870 and sold in 1901. Any suggestions? Eric Zabilka Wilmore KY

The Montana Railroad was a shortline existing in Johnson County Arkansas, built to connect a number of coal mines with the Missouri Pacific Central Division. Can anyone provide any roster information

Thanks Doug Allen Stanley For GOD so loved the world that he gave his only begotten SON, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

It is going to take me awhile to go through this. But I checked one, BALD 61100 (C&NW 3029), and I show retired 29Dec54. [Attachment(s) from Allen Stanley included below] Thanks Doug, I've attached a

While looking through my Chicago & North Western roster last night I discovered there were between 800-900 locos with no dispositions other than "on road 1948". None of my sources have shed any additi

Hi All, After looking at hundreds of diagrams and other data I think I have been able to make some sense of the ATSF class question. As I suspected there were two earlier systems used. If I had some e

Hi All, While digging in some ATSF diagram books (ca 1920 & 1927) in the classification section they showed thier class codes as well as an ICC Class Code. Below is what they showed- TYPE ICC SYMBOL 0

After a bit more digging outside of the ICC codes there appears to be loco types and classes. Both use alpha, alpha/numeric and possibly even numeric only codes. Are these standard or road specific? I

Hi All, Have been doing some digging into this company and what little I find says they must have been a major player in the early loco and rolling stock market. Very little has surfaced so far in num