Other car re-uses: MEC and maybe BAR removed the roofs from single sheathed boxcars, added cross ties at the top, and used them for pulpwood service.
B&O and D&H both added hoppers, roof hatches and slope sheets to USRA single sheathed boxcars to turn them into covered hoppers for cement service. Central Vermont had some XM-1 SS boxcars with roof hatches and hoppers for grain service. Several southern roads added roof hatches for kaolin service, and PRR added hatches to some round roof boxcars for coal tar service. Then there are the "modern" boxcars, bulkhead flats and coal cars converted to haul trash! Locally I see a lot of the CP bathtub coal cars (once made by Kinsman) in trash service. The bulkhead flats have steel plate welded between the the bulkheads to make them into very-high sided gondolas. The photos posted this week for Gary Ippolito included a very nice PS-2 covered hopper to open ballast hopper conversion. Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 8/16/11, danvandermause <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim: > > This is a great point for us all to keep in mind when > building our car fleets -- older, obsolete cars were > sometimes cascaded down to specific services, usually > involving contaminating commodities. > > The "worst" example of this on the Southern Railway (where > I worked in the 1970's and 1980's) were the 40 foot boxcars > that were assigned to haul animal hides from rendering > plants to other processing plants. I have talked to > yard crewmen who said they would scan each track inventory > looking for the hide cars, and they would avoid walking past > those cars, especially in the summer! > > An obsolete car, with special stenciling or other > modifications for a specific service, would be a great > conversation piece for our layouts, and would help to > establish the time period for our layouts. > > Dan Vandermause ------------------------------------ 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/
