George,
The SP was known to ship watermelons in stock cars and the Santa Fe is
known to have pressed stock cars into grain service. They used cardboard to
line the interior of the car. Some of the Santa Fe stock cars had drop bottoms
for hauling coke
Just a few more ideas.
John Oglesby
George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the N&W
video, "Operation Fast Freight" one brief scene shows the
N&W stockcar being loaded with bricks using a wide hand truck, not
pallets. One worker was rolling the hand truck into the stockcar while
another employee was inside stacking bricks.
If you have a builders supply or a team track that ships to
contractors located in the eastern U.S. you could use this stockcar.
The video was shot in the early 1950's but I wouldn't be surprised if
stockcars were used for this up to the early 1960's at least.
George Courtney
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