These TLT cars are good news for me. As a CP aligned road, the Soo received many CP stock cars for the South St. Paul packing plant. I was told this by a long-term Soo dispatcher who worked that line for many years. I believe he mentioned horses were often brought in that way. I've seen a photo, I think in one of the Soo books (I'd have to do some digging), that shows a cut of perhaps 6 CP stock cars in the brown and white scheme behind a Geep on the Twin Cities main. I presume that was a cattle extra from Shoreham to the NP/CGW interchange at Mississippi St., heading for that plant.

Bob Sterner
St. Paul, MN