Many of those cars could have been in some sort of captive or assigned service. The major industry on SHABBONA RR uses many such road names that would probably not be seen in SE Iowa otherwise.
Bob Nicholson ____________________________________ --- In [email protected], "gsc3" <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. > 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 > ------------------------------------ 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/
