Crates or tarp covered "machinery" loads are a good choice. Sometimes sand could be shipped long distances for glass making or foundry work. An extreme case being a ship load of sand transported some years ago from the U.S. - to Egypt! Talk about coals to Newcastle! Glass and foundry sand were often shipped in box cars, but a tarp covered gon load is possible.
The SP cars were used to ship pipe according to one article I read, although most of that was for gas pipes in the south central or south west U.S. Kline and Culotta's "The Postwar Freight Car Fleet" has a picture of a composite ATSF "Caswell" GS gon in Reading's Rutherford yard ca. 1947. No indication of what it had carried there. Pieter E. Roos --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Charles Weston <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Charles Weston <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: SP GS Gondola > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 9:05 PM > I have a picture from the SP yards in > San Antonio from the 1960s which shows crates, perhaps > machinery, being shipped in gondolas, although not the GS. > > Charles Weston > > --- On Wed, 11/10/10, ctxmf74 <[email protected]> > wrote: > > From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]> > Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: SP GS Gondola > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 4:36 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], > "Ed" <loize...@...> wrote: > > the Mighty NYC will have two sugar beet cars rolling on its > tracks next year because it is a very unusual car which will > attract attention. > > > > Hi Ed, they were not likely to ship a low value load like > sugar beets, sand, gravel, or scrap iron across country but > the SP also used these cars for general cargo so a load of > manufactured product would be a reason to find one of these > on NYC rails. Just need to think what did we make in Cali( > or somewhere else in the SP empire) in the 50's that was > needed in the other states and that woulda been > shipped in gons? Maybe something like a pre-fab steel > bulding? or some kind of unique industrial > machinery??....dave > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
