Hello Tim ,All
There was some discussion of winecars on this list a
while back, and one post {gatx417?}had a Bob Morris
photo of Fresno with many wine cars in view. So for
the central valley in the 50s-60s at least,wine cars
were not an oddity. This is enough of an excuse for me
to build a 6 dome wine car for my N scale 64'
Coastline layout.
Charlie Burns

--- Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...> wrote:

Richard Hendrickson wrote:

Wine tank cars would certainly not have been seen

on branch lines in

places like Kansas or Georgia. But there is

abundant photographic

evidence of them in the trains of the major

transcontinental carriers

that served California such as the Santa Fe, Union

Pacific/C&NW, and

Southern Pacific/Rock Island/T&NO/SSW, sometimes

several of them at one

time, en route to widely scattered destinations.

I wonder sometimes whether the "abundant
photographic evidence" is more
related to the oddity of a car than to quantity.

Tim Gilbert



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