Get more revenue out of your stock cars

[mdvle]

For those modeling the transition era and earlier, your model railroad can generate some additional revenue with its fleet of stock cars - shipping watermelons.

 

Images at link (from Rock Island mailing list) showing watermelons being loaded into a stock car.

 

https://groups.io/g/RockIslandLines/message/7790

 

[skipepsi]

They were also used for sawn timber as the doors could be locked, found this out after declining some of course. 

[Regularity]

Also used for carry pulpwood, at least on the CofG when they were short of gondolas and before they started modifying old cars and building new one specifically for that service.

[dave1905]

Pretty much anything that could be loaded on a flat car or gondola, and can fit through a narrow door, can be shipped in a gondola.  I use mine to ship pig iron.

Edited July 17, 2022 by dave1905

[Patrick SPF]

There was a long article in the January 2021 issue of MRH Running Extra suggesting alternative loads for stock cars.

 

The Pennsylvania fitted racks inside stock cars and then used them to ship tomatoes from Delaware to the Campbell's factory in Camden for soup manufacture