A novel way to get another type of car into use on your pike is to use cattle cars to carry bricks. Skeptics at a recent operating session questioned it, but...
... A few more are: railway ties, barrels of oil, rough lumber, fencing, gates and other commodities not requiring protection from the weather. Peter Bowers --...
Also watermelons laid in hay. Makes an interesting load..."what are those, green hogs?" Mike Aufderheide ... A few more are: railway ties, barrels of oil,...
I expect apples and some other fruit may be put in stock cars from time to time when weather will not be a problem. Stock cars were often used by maintenance...
Frequently used for OCS moves. Oil in drums, ties, other track hardware were common loads for stock cars. Cheers Roger T. Home of the Great Eastern Railway ...
... I should put you on moderated status....but I won't!!! That was bbbaddd!! Peter Bowers -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG...
Gregory Peet <gregory.peet@...> wrote: By that time, the demand for hauling cattle was less, so these cars were available. I'm sure there have been novel...
Frank King's, "Minnesota Logging Railroads," contains a picture of a cattle car being used to haul pulpwood. ... conversations with other was, most any...
All, I have written up a little review of my experience at the Op Til U Drop event in Michigan a couple weeks ago. I am a terrible writer, but you may find...
... In addition to the commodities in 1955 cited above, other alternative loads for stock cars were: 1) In the Fall of 1947, stock cars were employed during...
... Yup. At the end of the bowl track, where you want the car to stop. I don't know off hand when they were last used. I do know that hump yards pre-date the...
... =========================== A "skate" is a flat metal plate that sits on the rail and has small "wheel stop" on it. The car wheels ride up on the plate...
These "Skates" are used at the pullout end of the hump bowl to stop cars that may have been released into an open bowl track at such a speed that it would roll...
The United Verde and Pacific (a 26 mile Arizona narrow gauge copper mining railroad) used a stock car to export a 63 (or 67, depending on the source) members...
The PRR used them to haul tomatoes. There is at least one widely published photo of tomatoes loaded in stock cars at Lancaster, PA Rich Orr [Non-text portions...
Couldn't something similar be used for hump operations on a model railroad to stop cars from crashing into each other? In olden days when they used these on...
... ========================== Yes they could be used on a Model Railroad, MR or RMC had an article on making them many years ago. No they are not used to keep...
Wasn't there a job for switchmen called "skate herder" that could be bid in yards where skates were routinely used to protect the switches on the ladder track...
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