I thought I’d bring this thread back with a new artifact I recently acquired. Here at university of Illinois, we have a department called Railtec. I got this Official Railway Equipment Register from a professor when we were talking about model railroading. The school gets them from the AAR, but he mentioned that he gives away extra copies to interested parties. This April 2002 edition was the closest he had to my 2001 modeling year. There’s a ton of useful information in here; older editions are on eBay pretty often, but I don’t see 2000’s+ editions hardly ever. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
That's great that you were able to add that to your personal library Trainiac. I worked some of my career as a Transportation Analyst for a large industrial shipper and everyone knew I was a railfan, so our old Equipment Registers, Official Railway Guides, tariffs, note pads and whatever else found their way to me. I have an April 1974 Equipment Register which I treasure because it's pre-Conrail.
Those ORER books are indeed very useful. I used to have several, but down to just one, as I loaned the others to "friends" who never returned them.
When I lived in NJ in the early '80s, I picked up this Lackawanna train gate station board for Ampere (NJ) at a train show for only a few bucks. It's 2" x 12". Ampere was on the road's Montclair Branch and was named for the electrical unit of measure because the Crocker Wheeler Co. manufactured electric motors at a factory across from the station. I made the crummy green frame. These were lit (with the light passing through the lettering). In a box backlit with LEDs, it'd look pretty cool I think. Maybe someday. Here's the aging station at Ampere, razed in 1995.
During some recent organizing, came across this. I vaguely remember this coming with one of the videos I ordered but not when. Would probably look cool flattened out but I would have to find a place to put it.
