Tim O'Connor notes: "And the Union Pacific ran very large cuts of livestock and sometimeswhole trainloads over the LA&SL into California." Very true. The first issue of the UPHS The

Tim, Paul In spite of many folks protestations that it “would never happen”, photos of foreign “western” stock cars are common on eastern roads such as the B&O and PRR. These are not

Paul Yes as long as you keep in mind this is probably not "interchange" but is more likely to be "borrowed" cars, mainly because of seasonal traffic patterns. In other words if you're modeling the

Dennis Storzek wrote I agree in the "general case" Dennis is correct about livestock loads, but livestock was known to move in trainload amounts BETWEEN major stock markets. The volume of livestock

The CB&Q Burlington-Washington Subdivision had seven small towns, each with two to five stock pens. During the hog shipping season, empty cars were spotted at the pens late each week for loading on

I have on DVD with 4 SP stock cars on a B&O freight so they did wonder about not like boxcars etc but there is always an exception to every rule. Paul Doggett UK

One caveat might be that the stock cars didn’t get stuck on any old train, but rather typically freights with expedited schedules, which often resulted in stock cars at the head end of reefer

My father lived in Green River, Wyoming in the mid 50's. He always loved trains, so I can repeat what he has told me, based on the fact that he was paying attention at the time. He states that the

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For a comment on a Seaboard Air Line stock train, please see message #116171. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

JIm, As some of the responses noted, not only do stock operations need to be stated as region or railroad specific, but they typically need to be line or branch line specific as the movement of stock

As I understand it, you model a small town somewhere in the west and want to move a few cars of stock out of town toward somewhere else. In that case, most if not all of the empties brought to your

Guys, I collect and model almost exclusively with "vintage" ho locos and rolling stock but I try to do so as accurately as possible. I am on this site to help me discern the models that aren't

Gilbert did make a cast metal 50' flat although it had four wheel trucks. Jeff jppellas@...

Since the discussion of the "last livestock shipment" is well beyond the time period of this group, is the sheriff going to step in and corral these animals before it turns into a stampede?

Morning Tim, The Wilson cars are have early 1950 dates and the smaller Wilson emblem from the post-war period. The Oscar Meyer have late 1940's dates prior to the application of any emblem, only

I'm also assuming/guessing that those same percentages would find themselves 'passed forward' into the long distance stock trains (correct?).

My thanks as well to all who shared information. The Richard Hendrickson articles do confirm the authenticity of Gotham Stock Express, and if it’s a little before my modeling period so be it.

You are clearly correct - this is an incorrect statement. I wish I had footnoted everything more precisely. If anyone knows when the last stock train ran on the D&RGW I would like to know. Until then

Don what are the paint dates for the Oscar Mayer and Wilson cars? Tim O'Connor