Southern Pacific stock car question...

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Does anyone out there have a good photo of a steam era SP stock car of the 1920s or 30s ?. Or could someone possibly describe what one looked like ?.

Thanks

Tracklayer

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Would you believe that the SP never owned any? Why, I don’t know, because they had many cattle pens along their tracks between Yuma and Tucson, Arizona, even into the diesel days. The SP evidentally relied on leased or other roads’ equipment instead of having their own.

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try this site http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/

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Thanks Chuck. That’s a neat site, but I didn’t have any luck finding what I was looking for.

I’ve got a friend that has a Roco model that’s brown and has the SP emblem high and to the right on each side along with SP and the car numbers in white on the number board. I may just take an old stock car and make up my own.

Until Cacole mentioned it, I’d never really noticed that SP didn’t have their own stock cars, but do have books with photos of them pulling Rio Grande stock cars.

Thanks guys.

Tracklayer

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According to the NMRA reprint of the 1953 Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER), the SP had nearly 1900 stock cars in servce in that year, of several types. Subsidiary T&NO rostered another 600+. Subsidiary Cotton Belt (SSW) had a mere 25. Not sure about the '20s or '30s, but it seems reasonable that the SP owned some then, as well.

Regards,

Byron

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Westerfield have kit`s.

http://www.westerfield.biz/cg430001.htm
Look for info also at http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/bynumber/stock/

swedtrain

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Tracklayer,

I’ve got two SP stock car photos digitized. Email me offlist, and I’ll be happy to email them to you.

Westerfield has 15 kits that cover six different types of SP stock cars.