Here are some Union Pacific stock cars at Arco, Idaho in April 1949
from a LIFE Magazine photo:

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?
q=cattle+source:life&imgurl=eb04c1b554e75305

or

http://tinyurl.com/5lwy3t

Does anyone have more information about these cars?

Bob Chaparro
Hemet, Ca

On Nov 22, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Bob Chaparro wrote:

Here are some Union Pacific stock cars at Arco, Idaho in April 1949
from a LIFE Magazine photo:

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?
q=cattle+source:life&imgurl=eb04c1b554e75305

or

http://tinyurl.com/5lwy3t

Does anyone have more information about these cars?

UP class S-40-4, UP 44810-45749, OSL 36753-37849, OWR&N 40399-40548,
built 1912-1914. These were 36' Harriman-design single deck stock
cars similar to the SP cars modeled by Red Caboose.


Richard Hendrickson

Hmmm... that means Model Railroading, 1/1989, pp.49-53 was
mistaken in identifying OSL 37701 as an S-40-6...

Thanks
Tim O'

What was at Arco, Idaho that would require coal from the Rio Grande?
A smelter of some kind?

Tim O'Connor

There was a Naval Ordnance proving grounds "near" there that is now the Idaho National Laboratory. It's where the first power nuclear reactor was built (IIRC) and the home to something like 54 nuclear reactors over the years. I believe there is still a coal-fired power plant there.

(I say "near" because nothing out there is really close to anything else. The shipping address to INL is variously Arco or Scoville, Idaho; Scovile in nothing but a wye on the facility, Arco is the nearest town, about 20 miles from the main gate.)

KL

Tim, A whole lot of eastern Utah coal is ordinary boiler coal and much of it
was shipped to northwestern states.

Dave Nelson

Tim O'Connor wrote: