This goes to show you why people should be buying the SP drop bottom Gondolas either on line, or at the NMRA/NASG Convention this year. Modeling Calif in the "transistion era", have cars from all over, North America, including Canada, in as much as Los Angeles / Long Beach & San Francisco had Ports for inporting / exporting goods. Bill
--- On Mon, 4/11/11, gsc3 <[email protected]> wrote: From: gsc3 <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} Oddball freight cars To: [email protected] Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 12:55 PM 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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/
