I remember very well visiting a friend in Ft. Dodge, Iowa, in the spring of 1970. We heard a whistle and caught sight of the CGW freight westbound between Oelwein, Iowa, and Council Bluffs. As the train rolled through town, I viewed one of the WAG cars. At that time I had never before seen such a car but it was one of the former B&M cars. Still running in 1970.
Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of JGG KahnSr [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 3:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} WAG (was SOO Line weathered boxcar Probably someone in the legal department figured out a tax-dodge to reviving the corporate identity. The WAG cars must have been among the last single-sheathed cars in interchange. Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > To hijack this thread a bit, some of the WAG hide cars were leased to Penn > Central and wore Toledo & Ohio Central reporting marks. > <http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/toc5255ald.jpg> - can't tell if the > reweigh date is 1-66 or not. > All of the former WAG cars on the PC were former B&M cars. The T&OC > reporting marks that reappeared at the tail end of NYC were all on hoppers. > The PC and later CR also had box cars sublettered TOC in captive flour > service. > > The T&OC reporting marks on the NYC ended in the 1936 system-wide > renumbering, and the T&OC then existed as a paper railroad until NYC > resurrected it in late 1964. > Mark Plank > The WAG boxcars (mostly ex-B&M) were often labeled "For Hide Loading Only"; > I'm > not sure of the > source for the hides--could well have been from the midwest--but a major > industry in northwestern > Pennsylvania was leather tanning, especially at Elkland PA, which got started > with the abundant hemlock > bark from the lumbering industry. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ 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/
