Greetings All; I was working as a Station Agent for the New Haven RR in 1965 and I would say that azt 25% of inbound lumber was in bulkhead flats. Ben Perry
Ted Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got the following great comment from the Freighcars List. > Ted Larson wrote: > >I model 1965, and want to know if I should have bulkhead flat cars > >on my layout. How common were they then? When did they start to > >become common? > > Several roads began adding bulkheads to existing flats in the > mid-1950s for gypsum wall board service, but I believe the first > new-built bulkhead flats came in the early 1960s, also mainly for > wall board service at first. The most common one was General Steel's > Commonwealth cast steel car (Walthers & Tichy models in HO, Athearn's > in N). There were quite a few of these in service by 1965, which is > about when they started to be used for lumber as well as wall board. > -- > > Jim Eager > Toronto, Ontario, Canada > Ted Larson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> 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/
