Jon,
I think we covered cars piecemeal in some of the followup exchanges but
heres a summary by industry. The time period you model makes a big difference.
Oh and of course this brought more memories to mind.
Can Plant-Tinplate arrived in 50' double door 'J' box cars. Went out in
"system" double door 50s. System gons for scrap. The tinplate blew out of the
cars and the stuff was along the ROW from Rochelle to Aurora. At some point
they started putting a plastic mesh over the loaded cars. One of the
regular day brakeman had a nice side income picking the heavy scrap out of the
"clean" inbound cars that he took everday to the local scrap dealer for
ready cash. He later died from on duty accident at Carnation.
Delmonte,Stokley,Rochelle Asparagus,Carnation all used RBLs.
FGEX,RBBQ,WFEX then to BN system marks,etc and many foreign ones also as they
were in
assigned pools. In case some dont know the AAR car lingo an RBL is an
insulated box car. They were developed starting in the late 50s for canned
goods,etc. Prior to that it most likely was mty reefers(for temperature
protection
) and 40 foot box cars.
Swift- the oldest smallest tank cars for the period you model for
tallow,urea,etc old dog box cars for hides and other PHP. Stock cars inbound if
early time period. Meat ice reefers for loading and then mechanical reefers.
Thats where the "ice" track at Rochelle got its name. The reefers going
into the plant were iced just outside on an extension between the storage
track and the switch into Swift off the main.
Standard Oil-UTLX tank cars as there was a corporate historical tie there
and also other leasing companies such as GATX,etc. These would be 8 &10k
cars until the 60s and 70s when cars "grew". Of course the Q tanks that have
been discussed.
New City-N&W battleship hoppers and Q hoppers. Also occassional PRRs.and
ICs.
Just make sure you have far more cars than the layout will hold so its
realistic operations !
Leo
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