George, You're totally correct about box, flats, tanks and gons mading
all corners of the map. Seems that hoppers normally didn't venture very
far because the material they hauled was available semi-locally.
However, when is comes to a one industry type situation, especially with
outbound loads that mix of cars can become much different. My hometown
shipped out a tremendous amount of grain during the harvest season for a
smalltown/branchline situation. It was fairly rare to see anything
besides Milwaukee Road boxcars and after the stockcars disappeared
that's pretty much all we saw--boxcars. Once a year we might see a
small cut of tankcars for hauling asphalt, perhaps a few flats of farm
machinery and a couple of outbound cars of scrap metal. I remember
seeing one reefer, again outbound with a load of cheese. I think
station agents pretty much ordered empty cars from the home railroad to
save on car charges.
If I modeled just the Milwaukee Road, I could have purchased a dozen RR
ribbed sided cars, a half dozen single sheathed cars from SHS, one PRS
reefer, 3 SSA tank cars, one gon, one flat and perhaps less than a dozen
foreign cars to be happy in fulfilling what was seen on that branchline
in the 50's & 60's.
Bob Werre
On 4/11/11 2:55 PM, gsc3 wrote:
>
>
> 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.
> 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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