Hi Jim:
how long did SR use them? are they still around?
cheers
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From: "Jim King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:05 PM
Subject: {S-Scale List} Southern pig flats from boxcars
>I saw these cars first-hand while living in Lynchburg, VA from 1981-87.
>The
> boxcars were mostly PS-1s that had been rebuilt in the 70s with larger
> doors
> and sidesill reinforcements, repainted and renumbered in difference series
> (there were many), in typical SR fashion. Apparently there was a need for
> single-trailer pig flats and the "typical" 89-footers wasted a lot of
> space
> because trailers had grown to about 48 feet at that time, thus allowing
> only
> 1 trailer per flat. Southern shipped the obsolete 50-foot boxcars to
> Virginia Iron & Metal in Roanoke for stripping . and I mean ALL THE WAY to
> the frame. I've seen short strings of 4 cars that looked nothing more
> than
> flat cars with rough edges being hauled thru Roanoke as they were staged
> to
> be rebuilt into pig flats. I think the East End Car Shop did the actual
> rebuilding.
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> When finished, many were forwarded empty to northern Virginia where they
> made their first revenue trip southbound on Tr. 219, the hottest pig train
> at that time (Tr. 173 also carried pigs but was mainly mixed; 219 was ALL
> intermodal). It was a common sight in the mid-80s to see freshly painted
> SR
> pig flats carrying their first load thru Monroe, VA, where I spent a LOT
> of
> time with the camera during my time in VA.
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> Jim King
>
> Smoky Mountain Model Works, Inc.
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> www.smokymountainmodelworks.com
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