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[quote user="orsonroy"][quote user="cbqjohn"] Looks like I will have to add some gons to my fleet (as well as flatcars), I suspect foriegn flatcars have a a similar pattern of use. John[/quote]Flat cars possibly roamed MORE than any other car on the rails. There was always a shortage of flat cars in the national fleet, mostly because railroad were generally unwilling to invest heavily in "special use" cars. Surprisingly, the SP had the largest fleet of flats (in 1950, something like 8,000 cars. That sounds like a lot, but it's not when compared to the Pennsy's 65,000-odd boxcars!)[/quote]Not surprising if you know that by the 1950s SP originated more lumber than any other road. S. Hadid
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