02-21-2014, 09:30 PM
Growing up on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, we had an enormous number of autoracks...gee, I lived south of Detroit/Toledo...and the CH&D is a North-South railroad...coincidence?
Rob Sloan put together something in his Narrow Gauge Data Book in which he reviewed the freight car rosters of a bunch of different narrow gauge roads. For my Oahu Railway...the ratio was: 1 tank car to 7 box to 9.5 flat/gon. I tend to recall the DSP&P in 1884 having a ratio of about 30
1 platform:box:reefer. Dependent upon the era, it is more appropriate to refer to flats and gons as platform cars.
Rob Sloan put together something in his Narrow Gauge Data Book in which he reviewed the freight car rosters of a bunch of different narrow gauge roads. For my Oahu Railway...the ratio was: 1 tank car to 7 box to 9.5 flat/gon. I tend to recall the DSP&P in 1884 having a ratio of about 30
1 platform:box:reefer. Dependent upon the era, it is more appropriate to refer to flats and gons as platform cars.
Michael
My primary goal is a large Oahu Railway layout in On3
My secondary interests are modeling the Denver, South Park, & Pacific in On3 and NKP in HO
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My primary goal is a large Oahu Railway layout in On3
My secondary interests are modeling the Denver, South Park, & Pacific in On3 and NKP in HO
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