Looking at a 1931 map of the Ex. nickel plate road line from rocky river ohio to Cleveland ohio and noticed that the industries have numbers after them.
Examples would include:
Jones (9)
Standard Oil (3)
Basket Co. (3)
Robinson spur (13)
Cleve. Furniture (22)
Then you got stuff like this:
Brown Bros. (10-10)
Lampson sessions (3-7)
so on, so forth. Any ideas what the numbers mean? here's the map
http://www.railsandtrails.com/NKP/1931Cleveland/NKP1931Cleveland-100.jpg
It says right on the map...........
"Figures denote car capacity. Length of car used = 42 feet"
This spells out how many cars each siding will hold.....based on a 42 foot car.
Sid
Ah, i overlooked that, thanks!
Also multiple numbers means mutiple sidings. J2