Leo
Thanks for the great info. Can you give any more info about the EJE boxcars?
How many cars did the can plant get? The J is the other RR I have an interest
in and you really don't hear much about where the cars went.
Dan
On Sep 9, 2011, at 7:43 AM, qutlx1@aol.com wrote:
> 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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