The Great Northern did convert 44' box and stock combination cars into regular stock cars. Normally cars in this size range was meant for transporting horses or other prized livestock on passenger

Gordon - One thing to remember is that the plans published in the model railroad press are often far from accurate. The further back you go the worse they get as does the accuracy of the data. When

Add the CGW, RI and GN to your list. Clark Propst

There is a photo of a Canadian stock car in the 1920's in Yoakum, Texas on the SA&AP.   Cyril Durrenberger

Seaboard's S-1 and B-5 stock cars were converted from single-sheathed box cars. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

And the Rock Island from single-sheathed box cars. (And interestingly later converted [MKT] stock cars to box cars by lining with plywood, as did ATSF with some of its own stock cars, although both

Ben Hom wrote: SP Pacific Lines did so in the 1930s, and T&NO did so right after WW II. Kits for the latter cars were offered by Sunshine. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

The Great Northern surely did. Staffan Ehnbom

This is a good question, since I'd like to have a CN stock car or two on my layout as well. Breezing through the web finds all sorts of interesting things on historical trans-country stock trade

Victor Baird asked: "I know the B&O and the Wabash did it. The B&O covered M26 box cars and the Wabash convered single sheath wood cars. Perhaps the PRR and who else did this?"   PRR definitely did,

I was just re-examining the almost 300 photos of mostly boxcars from our era on this site and think some subjects may have been added because I had not bookmarked them and I am sure I would have the

Dennis writes- Dennis, I believe that you must mean gefilte fish, not lox (salmon). Such fish (gefilte) usually has to be Kosher where a Rabbi makes an attestation at the time the fish is killed

Ditto Rich Orr

Hench the Badger 155 Anthem. Bill Welch

N&W's Class SK stock cars were converted from Class BLa boxcars; these boxcars began life as Class BL, basically a door and a-half clone of the USRA single sheathed boxcars.  Most, if not all, were

I know the B&O and the Wabash did it. The B&O covered M26 box cars and the Wabash convered single sheath wood cars. Perhaps the PRR and who else did this? I suppose unlike western railrods, eastern

Almost out-of-scope for this time period, but I remember being surprised in being able to photograph a 36' (5' door) CP stock car, number 275098, coupled to a much more modern 40' CP stock car on an

Tony, That's a good news for me too. I like this car and was wondering if I can use some along SP tracks. GHQ have a good kit in N scale: http://www.ghqmodels.com/store/zm18.html Cheers Enzo

Arrrrrgh! <on my semantic soapbox> The paints named in this thread, Polyscale, Scalecoat II, etc, are NOT "water based". These paints are all or almost all based on an alcohol solvent. Because

This has been my understanding as well. However, there is a surviving conductor's train sheet from the Santa Fe in Texas in the early 1950s showing an empty CN stock car. How it got there is an