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[quote user="BRAKIE"]If those was the older wooden frame cars then they would be placed toward the rear. Railroads wanted out of the stock business due to the cost and was reluctant to buy new stock cars or rebuild their aging stock car fleet. Slack action runs both ways and as a rule engineers did their up most to limit any hard run in or out of slack--a broken coupler knuckle required a explanation since a broken coupler knuckle could tie up a busy main line.[/quote] <a href="http://www.railpictures.net/photo/539327/">http://www.railpictures.net/photo/539327/</a> 1993, loaded stock cars on the head end.  9/9 photos showing stock cars in trains in the Livestock and Meatpacking book show loaded stock cars on the head end of trains.
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