The question about the Hicks Stock Car brought back memories of growing up near one of the mainlines through Atlanta, and seeing the stock cars rolling through.
One of my coworkes grew up in Hayti, MO. and we got to talking, and we have not seen a stock car in quite a while. What happened to them, and has anyone seen one recently?
We live in the Memphis, TN area and thought with the major lines coming through, that we would have seen more than we have remembered.
With the decentralization of meat packing that began in the 1950's, livestock traffic by rail began its long descent and has vanished except in a few isolated instances.
Livestock today is moved by truck instead of rail.