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[quote]Originally posted by mudchicken Farmer John's still gets occasional shipments of porkers via UP in UP Green Livestock cars. Whatever happened to the self watering Pullman Palace livestock cars??? Mudckicken - You gotta be kiddin' me? Are you sure? Last time I did AAR tracing on those green HOGX cars, it looked like they were all being scrapped. That was back in '94... There were at least TWO 86' , double decker, high cube, livestock cars that lasted longer into the 90s. (They may still be around, but I haven't found them in the Railway Equipment Register anymore). General American had these 2 cars, stenciled GASX (General American Stock), the same comapny that has/had GARX (General American Refrigerator). They are really known today for what they have always been, GATX, General American Tank Car. Last I heard in the 90s they were actually still on the rails, but hauling golf carts(!!), not livestock. Lightweight products, such as auto parts, or in this case, golf carts, can only compete with direct truck if enough of them can be moved. I.e., a 1:1 truck to rail ratio does not work. 2:1, 2 trucks in one rail car sometimes does, such as scrap paper in a boxcar, 3:1, such as reefers of frozen french fries works, and 4:1 ratios such as plastic pellets in covered hoppers works best. But regarding Farmer John... hard to believe. I don't think there is any equipment left. Canada's fleet was disappearing from the Equipment Register all thru the 90s, Mexico's too now.
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