Souhern Pacific stock cars

Model Railroader Prototype information for the modeler
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Did Southern Pacific owned a fleet of livestock cars.

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See the following:

http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/stock/index.htm

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The Red Caboose produces an HO model of particular class of Southern Pacific stock car that are prototypically correct (as well as its subsidiaries Northwestern Pacific and the Texas & New Orleans.)

For some reason, it seems to me that mid-20th-century photos of SP trains in central California show Union Pacific stock cars more frequently than SP.

Mark

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Mark, that would probably be due to both roads being “joined at the hip” so to speak, even after the Harriman era breakup. Both roads used “CS” or common standard designs. On the SP, “CS” indicated a common standard design or supply item shared with Union Pacific, and “S” indicated a purely SP design or supply item. Most stock being transported to the west went via UP to SP and thence to slaughterhouses in the Bay Area, Central Valley and Southern California.