Very interesting photo. Paul Doggett

A Lake Terminal mill gondola pressed into bulk material service. Interesting. F&C produces an HO scale resin kit for this gondola. A few lettering styles are available, including this one. While bulk

Lime unloading from gondolas. Another great images from the IDA Pantagraph Collection http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll35/id/32654/rec/286 -- Matt Smith Bloomington, IL

To close the circle, here is a roster of CB&Q 40' Stock Cars: 52000-52149 SM. 40' 6" Stock Car. Class SM-19. Built 1937-38 at CB&Q Galesburg.

Looks very nice Lester, I built the car as well and there’s something about those 40-ft DD cars, especially wood and outside braced. Nicely done. And enjoyed your blog Fenton

All- Drawings for the CB&Q 36 Ft car appeared in Mainline Modeler. HO brass cars and resin kits have been available in the past. If my 3D CAD buddy ever gets his printers going I’ll have cars

Nice work Lester I have one of those to build. Paul Doggett

I have finished Rock Island 160250 automobile single-sheathed box car with end door. A Rocket Express resin kit, number R1-1. If you are interested, photos and writeup of the build are now on my

Hi Doug, The CB&Q stock car with the double decked load of sheep is a cocoker given the full height IC car behind it and a similar car to the right. Such photos really illustrate the diminutive

For a short time, the UPHS offered a kit for the S-40-6, which I assumed when I ordered them were 40' cars. In fact, they were 36', and the kit is an interesting mix of Red Caboose parts from the SP

For what it might be worth, the Rock Island moved to 40 foot stock cars beginning with the purchase of 250 from the Ryan Car Company in 1930 (the new Rocket Express kit in HO.) They followed that by

Garth you are correct. Many livestock handling facilities were originally set for 36’ cars. But as they were built of wood, which deteriorates when exposed to corrosive elements like urine, pens and

OSL 1926 Freight Car diagrams can be found at https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Union-Pacific-Equip-Diagrams/OSL-1926-Freight-Cars/i-krT4w2W Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

To add to Doug's info, this is a roster of CB&Q 36' stock cars as of January 1, 1966. As they were all built in the mid-late 1920s, they existed in the 1939/40 time frame and as Charlie Vlk

I don't dunk. I lay the car on newspaper and paint the paint remover on one side and the ends and let it sit then take it to the deep sink and wash it off. It takes a few times of doing this but I

Doug, It occurs to me that a preference and survival factor for 36' or 37' foot stock cars might have been to fit existing multiple loading/unloading chutes at major stock

Brad certain roads preferred 36’ cars up to the end of livestock movements. Attached is a spreadsheet I created some time back that shows stockcars for the CNW, CGW, Omaha, & M&StL showing the years

Manure was a commodity that could be sold. The most common use was as fertilizer. You can buy bags of it today at home centers. Every stockyard, sale barn, feed lot, and slaughter house had to have a

Oregon Short Line 36' Stock Cars I have a file Diagrams Union Pacific Freight Cars 1926 Oregon Short Line Folio 1500 That has diagrams of the S-30 36' OSL stock Cars. I got it off the internet But

Or Solvaset on a piece of paper towel left overnight on the lettering. Follow up with grit blasting. And repaint.