I am trying my best, without a great deal of luck, to try to get my arms around the era I would like to be using as my base for sceniking on my layout.
I want to be "somewhere" around the transition time from steam to diesel and I realize that depending on where you are geographically that might not always be the same, so let me try to tackle it a different way. I have basically been collecting 40' box cars and refers. When did the 50' box car become fairly standard issue?
Also, I would like to have a fleet of 54' covered grain hoppers. When would they have begun to appear on the railroad scene?
I am not interested, at least at this point, in Gundersons or car carriers and can fairly well ferret out the other newer stuff like 33,000 gal tanker and the like and the 86' boxes, but I can't seem to put my finger on when it would be "legal" to run both 40' and 50' boxcars and the 54' grain hoppers.
Thanks in advance.
Bob
I want to be "somewhere" around the transition time from steam to diesel and I realize that depending on where you are geographically that might not always be the same, so let me try to tackle it a different way. I have basically been collecting 40' box cars and refers. When did the 50' box car become fairly standard issue?
Also, I would like to have a fleet of 54' covered grain hoppers. When would they have begun to appear on the railroad scene?
I am not interested, at least at this point, in Gundersons or car carriers and can fairly well ferret out the other newer stuff like 33,000 gal tanker and the like and the 86' boxes, but I can't seem to put my finger on when it would be "legal" to run both 40' and 50' boxcars and the 54' grain hoppers.
Thanks in advance.
Bob