If you lurk on the Steamera Freightcar list and I know several of us do, you
will come to realize you can justify the oddball car on your layout if you
model the transition era.
Much as been noted about the N&W hopper going west over Sherman Hill, and
I've seen a DVD of a Western of Alabama boxcar behind a Big Boy. I've seen
roundroof SAL boxcars on the Maine Central headed for Canada.
I'm coming to believe that for the major carriers, boxcars and some gons and
flats were free runners. It apparently worked like if Southern Railway did 8%
of the national boxcar business then Southern was expected to contribute 8% of
the national boxcar fleet.
BAR and FGE reefers were found in California during the busy season and in
one of my Clinchfield Railroad books it clearly shows a Burlington Road hopper
in the s.w. Virginia coalfields.
To relate to S, the fact that you are modeling a particular section of the
country doesn't mean you can't run a SAL or NP boxcar or any other major road
from I'm reading on Steamera Freightcars. Right, Pieter?
George Courtney
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