The IC had a few horse cars. They were converted baggage cars. Here is the diagram sheet showing the moveable stalls and troughs: Jeff White Alma IL On 8/4/2022

Would someone please identify the manufacturer of this former Gulf tank car? Thanks! Bob Weston

Santa Fe’s #1992 Horse Express car is on public display as part of “Rail Giants” collection at the LA County Fairgrounds (aka Fairplex) in Pomona. The free display is open during the annual fair

The Santa Fe also had quite a number of horse cars. They were long with 3 doors on each side plus a large door in one end. I don't know the interior arrangement, but I remember seeing them frequently

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 07:06 PM, Steve SANDIFER wrote: The Santa Fe at one time had 10 50’ box cars equipped with stalls to handle animals such as polo ponies that did not require express shipment

Jack, it's one of eleven from the original 50 express reefers that had their bunks removed and reclassified as express and dairy cars. I'm pretty sure the one in the first photo is from the same group

I’m interested in the location of the vertical brake staff. J. Stephen Sandifer

That is a very unusual uncoupling lever on the flatcar with what appears to be a third eye bolt attached to the casting housing the coupler. Any ideas which road had that style of flatcar uncoupling

Folks, Thanks for all the ideas about alternate (to paper mills) industries for these cars. I wonder, does anyone has any photos of the interior of these cars? I will be building a model of Norfolk

Very weird. They're just a few miles apart -- 30 minutes at 10 mph :-D On 8/3/2022 7:57 PM, Rich Gibson via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

The rayon plant is a large feature on Jim Brewer’s HO scale N&W Shenandoah layout. It was featured in Model Railroad Planning but I can’t recall the year. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Didn't someone create a model of one of these plants? -- I don't remember if it was MM or RMJ or MR or another magazine, but I do remember it was a printed article. Maybe 20

Good eyes, Bruce! According to a 1939 BAR timetable, they ran a number of mixed trains to outlying locations in the north woods. One of them was a 30 minute route from Millinocket (where Great

And in Scott's 1959 rayon and viscose fiber plants were still in production - Celanese at Narrows, VA and North American Rayon at Elizabethton TN were still active. I think Dupont in Waynesboro VA was

Until the late 1950's "wood chips" were called "hog fuel" and would be burned as fuel in furnaces although many sawmills simply burned them outright ! ( Those giant cone shaped

Also, the ground all over the place was covered ankle deep in wood chips. On 8/3/2022 7:42 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Scott In Wyoming I observed a loading track for woodchips at a sawmill. There was an overhead bin, and the car was tied off between two winches on the ground, and they moved it

I think it'll still work for your needs, Scott. __________________________________ Drew Bunn drew.r.bunn@... Cell - (905) 483-0758

Scott, Most pulp mills had a small storage area for cars - maybe 15 to 20 - so you could model that yard and put the entire mill "on the backdrop" ... perhaps even do some selective compression of