I am model the NYC in Buffalo,NY and I am wondering if it would be usual to see an occasional ATSF boxcar.
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Alex,
Just about any boxcar containing items being shipped from the west could be found in the east and vise versa. While most of my NYC fleet pulls NYC or eastern railroad rolling stock, I do have a few western roads represented.
A good way to verify that is to pull up some vintage NYC film on You Tube and see what roads are represented. Here's one that I ran across last night that might be of help to you:
The Freight Yard
Many of the non-NYC road names seem conveniently difficult to see at times but you can catch a few here and there.
Tom
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Thank you so much Tom, I appreciate the help.
Back when I was railfanning NYC along the Hudson I recall seeing one of those ATSF 'map of the system' boxcars heading south in a mixed freight. I was just above the Hudson Narrows on the East side of the river.
That car has stuck in my memory ever since - just about sixty years now.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
That's neat, Chuck. Wish I had a Mr. Peabody & Sherman wayback machine. I'd spend a week each railfanning at Collinwood Yard and Bellefontaine with a digital camera, tape rule, and a notebook.
Of course! Anything substantial from California could find its way to the east coast via ATSF, UP, SP, and a few other western railroads. Also, the same items could find their way on ANY RRs boxcars that ended up empty after delivering goods to the west coast.
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
Thank you everyone for your help.
ALEX WARSHAL I am model the NYC in Buffalo,NY and I am wondering if it would be usual to see an occasional ATSF boxcar.
Before Ike's and the trucking industries Interstates boxcars roam far and wide as did flat cars,gons etc..
I recall seeing two to three loaded Santa Fe open hoppers loaded with crush stone on the PRR in Columbus,Oh starting in the late 50s and well into the 60s.
These loads showed up two times a week(usually Mondays and Thursdays) and went East..
Larry
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Before the big breakup of RR in the northeast,i.e. PC, the 2 big guns were NYC and PRR, so one would expect to see quite a few of these cars in a classification yard. IN the west UP, SP ATSF were big, and a lot of their equipment would travel East to make deliveries. One of the agreements between RR was to move cars tword their home road, so your yard would see cars from the west, midwest, and south arriving from points east and would dispatch them (hopefully loaded) back to where they came from.
I have seen photos of trains in Maine (which I model) with cars from UP, SP, ATSF, SP etc. In the steam era, railroads were the best way to ship goods long distance. If some company in the Northeast ordered a car load of goods from California, they probably would have been delivered in a car from a local Western RR.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch