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Well, I'm a goof.

I completely missed the right-most column. The series 9000 through 9999 has 435 cars, and 10000 through 10999 has 65 cars. So Mr. White's book (and Wikipedia) match the January 1940 ORER for total number of cars.

JR

Interesting that The Great Yellow Fleet, referenced in Wikipedia, shows 500 WRX cars in 1940. The January 1940 Official Railway Equipment Register shows 2000 cars, numbered 9000 through 10999, with WRX marks.

JR

Thank you.

JR

I was curious about what is available within walking distance, of the Syracuse Amtrak station (shops, restaurants, etc). Asking for a friend who wants to take her grandkid on a train ride for a few hours.

Thanks in advance,

JR

Regarding the gearing on the PB's, according to Withers: They were re-geared "by 1957", returning to the AP-20 classification, and assigned to the passenger pool to work with E7s and E8s. They subsequently returned to the AFP-20 classification "by 1960". It seems unlikely that PR...

Referring to the St. Bonaventure Railroad - I'm not aware of any vestige of the track remaining. I attended the university in the late 70s / early 80s, and never saw anything (although I didn't specifically go searching for it). On the "PRR" side of 417, the track approximately followed th...

Withers Publishing put out an eleven volume set of softcover books on PRR diesels in the 1980s and 90s. Each major model has a chapter devoted to it, and each chapter has a page or two, of technical detail. Paraphrasing some information from the chapter on PAs and PBs: By the early 1950s, PAs were i...

Found this image on Facebook, which had apparently been grabbed off of an eBay sale in 2020.

AHM 5151-C

JR

The Water Level Route by Charles Knoll, published by Rochester Chapter in 1984, has a photo of the signal bridge at 381. It shows the signals in the process of being converted from semaphore to searchlight. The date of the photo is September 17, 1949.

That looks like the right railroad. Photos of their # 17 and # 18 do match what I saw.

Thank you.

JR

Just observed a pair of high nose gp38s from Auto Train.
Black paint. No lettering. Believe the numbers are 17 and 18. Closest town was Doswell, i think? Was wondering about details on these.

Thanks in advance

jr

Appears to be 3851 with thanks to TrainDetainer for thinking to read the KarTrak code, as well as nydepot for providing the hi-res image.

JR

Based on the chevron-style bay window screens, and the lettering arrangement, it appears to be a C-26A class.

Should be in the 903828 to 903924 series (originally C-3828 to C-3924), if that helps to narrow it down.

JR

And take a look at the pavement on the west side of the building. That's how the NYC got into Kodak in the early years. Up into the....1980's?...you could still see rail in there, probably long gone now. There was still a stub of that line into the 1990s or early 2000s, to service the Building 31 p...

I believe that after Mrs. Smith died (1934?), title for the "railroad" (or branch) passed to The American Red Cross.

JR