One service that hasn't been mentioned is the grain trains from Port McNicholl
to West St John NB. The cars were specially designed for grain with hopper
bottom outside braced boxcars, the precursor to covered hoppers. The cars
floors near the doors folded up to make a grain door or flat to carry regular
lading. The 36' and 40' cars were labelled with routing instructions for this
service. Tichy does a model of the USRA 40' car with proper ends but no hopper.
Westerfield did the car with resin hoppers and correct lettering for this
service. This service existed from the teens through the thirties when many of
the cars had the hopper bottoms removed. Ultimately the St Lawrence Seaway put
paid to all this type of transshipping of grain through the great lakes in the
late 50s. Elevators at the Lake Huron ports still stand at Goderich, Owen
Sound, Collingwood and other places.
You may label these as assigned cars rather than a unit train but there was
much innovation and experimentation with several different designs tried
including the 1920 "battleship grain car", one of the earliest covered hoppers
I've seen.
Roger Chrysler
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From: "PilotRicky@xxxxxxx" <PilotRicky@xxxxxxx>
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, November 8, 2013 9:35:13 AM
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Re: Unit Trains
I'm definitely still interested in the topic....Unit Trains!
Rick
In a message dated 11/7/2013 11:43:38 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
derekboles@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Actually, I have given it a lot of thought and, no, I'm not joking.entitled enough to try and close down a conversation among 1134 people because
What I am doing is responding to someone who feels that he's
that.
Think about
<dougcummings@...> wrote:
Derek Boles
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Doug Cummings"
Think about it. The number of log hauls in the
You are joking, of course.
been staggering and rail was the prime way of moving19th century would have
where rivers and lakes or horses were not handy orlogs in those day
if anyone knows when the first log train operated orpractical. I doubt
operated. If you want to take on that task go right ahead.where it
DEC
antecedents of unit trains if
So, what's wrong with tracing the 19th century
here and it might go on indefinitely?that's a subject that interests people
the Yahoo group of the Canadian PacificThe last time I checked this was
Association.HISTORICAL
"Who knows" what we might learn here!
Derek Boles
