…weren’t these made by CONrail[:D], or perhaps NEW HAVEN (formerly the name of a detention centre for young adults, located in Vancouver)[:D]…
working in Corrections, I intend to put a RCMP station, jailhouse, the Classic REVELSTOKE,BC Courthouse (see it in the movie “Double Jeopardy” staring Ashley Judd), and a country church into my railroad layout.
the SILO cars intrigue me, the most though
cheers
I recall reading somewhere that the silo cars never “took off” (apologies for terrible pun) because the missiles were very fragile, and the RRs didn’t like having to handle them because it meant special train movements, extra-careful switching operations, etc, etc that took a lot of time and effort to get right.
Actually, one of the reasons that the silo cars were never deployed was that it was impossible to keep their movements secret. An Air Force officer said that “there was no way to hide them from the [train] buffs”.
lol, I guess this is where the current problems that railfans are apparently having (being hassled while taking photos and notes) started!
I had NO IDEA [:0]that that is what their function was. They just looked interesting… and I had planned to stay away from a military theme as it didn’t seem to fit the farmland…
why are they so Colourful though???[?]
Very hard to name all the different cars available. I like a train with the basics, boxcar, gondola, flatcar, tankcar, stockcar, open top hopper, refrigerated, caboose, but realize that some cars weren’t mixed in a train, like a stockcar, unless empty. Express cars were on other trains, fast freight, passenger, mail. My most unique cars are a ore car purchased as a kit while my train set was stored, and my vinegar tank cars, purchased about a year ago when I found them. Had to have one, bought 2. Had to get a bay window caboose and open top hopper when I started up again. Like tank cars best, got a bunch of those, single and tri-dome, and bought a bunch of 56 ft. ADM corn/soy oil cars, a entire 10 car train, a few Atlas tankers, including a beer can car, want some corn syrup cars, basically every kind of tankcar, although the 8000 gallon tankers fit 1955 and the Los Angeles area, I like what I see today riding the rails in IL, so have some piggybacks for a short ATSF train, got a selection of closed top hoppers, but not an entire train like runs to the Silica plant in Ottawa. I used to like seeing boxcars from various roads, faraway places, I prefer to have different Southern Pacific cars first, Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, Western Pacific, ATSF, Denver and Rio Grande first, but anything from another midwestern or northeastern road is good, and hope to get a bunch of reefer cars for Pacific Fruit Express. In the 50’s the cars I wanted after the basics were the open car carriers, some cars were built in South Gate, shipped (Trained) elsewhere, they were cool, and SP Piggy-back flats with trailers. I like the reefers with famous meat packers, Rath, Hormel, Swifts Premium Meat, such.
My most prized cars after my passenger trains, cars, are my UP express cars, bought 10 in two tone grey, and the 56 ft. tankers with ADM on them. Have various colors in PS1 boxcars, I like my cars to have roofwalks. I still don’t have one each of every Atlas N scale type car, but have some nice ones, includi
The real reason was cost. I’m old enough I remember that mealy mouthed Jimmy Carter saying we didn’t need them or MX missels or B-2 bombers “cause they cost too much”. Then along came cowboy and he traded the rail silos for the soviets pulling SS20’s, if memory serves, from eastern europe. I don’t think they ever were going to actually put them on the commercial railroad, they had a plan to build “racetracks” undergroung in Nevada and NewMexico so the ruskies would never know where they were. The Navy then proved they could do the same job with boomers for a lot less money and upkeep, so the nuclear sub became the hidden deterent. FRED