More from the Freightcar List ========= >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<
Bulkhead flats for pulpwood service were purpose-built at least by the early 1950's. There is a 1957 builder photo of a wallboard flat (Seaboard) in the 1961 CBC. AT&SF had some Ft-5 wallboard flats in 1959 but I don't know if they were delivered that way or not. The Santa Fe had earlier cars too but they were rebuilds as you suspect. GM&O had GSI wallboard flats built in 1953 and IC had GSI cars in series 60000-60099 built in 1958 split 50-50 as plain deck and bulkhead cars (AAR class FMS) -- they're listed in the 1959 ORER. Tim O. ============== 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 <*> 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/
