I'm just guessing here (a dangerous thing to do on this list) but
the cars in question may have come from the Georgia, Florida &
Alabama RR merger in 1927. If anyone has access to complete SAL
roster info by year, check if the cars were added between 1926 and
1928.

John Golden
Bloomington, IN

--- In STMFC@..., "Denis F. Blake" <dblake7@...> wrote:

The answer to this is yes. It was not until later in the 50's

that these

cars were off the roster and their numbers taken over by woodchip

cars.

Now, as a side note, that being said, these cars were rebuilt into

wet rock

phosphate cars toward the end of their lives.

Also, as Ben stated, the SAL was not allocated any cars. These

were

purchased 2nd hand by the Seaboard.

DB

----- Original Message -----
From: "benjaminfrank_hom" <b.hom@...>
To: <STMFC@...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:45 PM
Subject: [STMFC] Re: SAL 36500-36699 hoppers

Frank Valoczy wrote:
"Curious if anybody knows which roadnumbers of the SAL's 36500-

36699

series hoppers (USRA twins, I believe?) were still on the roster

in

1951?"

One clarification - SAL was not allocated any USRA twin

hoppers. These

were copies built to the same dsign in the 1920s. I don't have

a 1951

ORER, but will check my 1950 ORER later this evening.


Ben Hom




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