Freight cars - interesting site

[Nick_Burman]

http://totskasha.10.pro.tok2.com/

 

Interesting site about Japanese freight cars with profiles of some car types - including a timeline graph showing the number of vehicles of a particular type operating per year.

 

Interesting to notice that while some cars had some very short (less than 20 years) lives, others were positively geriatric - some classes of boxcars built in the 1920's only came off when JRF curtailed wagonload freight in 1984!

 

 

Cheers NB

[westfalen]

Interesting site. A lot of freight cars could be used to model different eras. The situation was the same here, up until wagon load freight was given up in the late eighties we were still running wooden cars from the 1880's alongside the most modern rollingstock.