Broadway Limited Stock car

[Angus Shops]

I understand that the CPR used stock cars in tie service, to vent the creasote fumes, so I have a couple in 'company service' on the tie gang. But it does seem to me that loading and unloading ties through the door would be more effort than required...

Geoff

[Missaberoad]

Here's a few "OCS" stock cars in tie service. Toronto, 1980's. BN used their stockcars for the same service but stopped because of the labor involved... 

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_rolling/277229.jpg

They were also used to carry drums of solvent, the slats allowed the fumes to vent...

I know Soo Line had some stock cars converted to Coke service by removing parts of the roof. Many Midwestern railroads also used them in grain rushes by boarding up the sides (and I imagine a through cleaning)

 

[Missaberoad]

one thing I just noticed, this is a double deck stock car? Was it a fixed deck?

[Spikre]

 
   pretty sure the PRR cars had Fixed Decks,if they had them.
  but they could be removed due to current needs.
   does make one wonder about shipping Grain in Stock cars,
  maybe that's why Flour was so heavily Bleached back then ?
  after the local lumber yard would empty boxcars,they became
  big "Porta Potties" when needed,too long a walk to get back
  home.
   in the 70s BN used ex-NP cars as Tie Cars,but they later removed
  the roofs.
  they also used the ex-NP cars in Grain Service,but would count 2
  cars on one billing,but the cars weren't popular,too low.
       Spikre
         

[Missaberoad]

I'm thinking if this is a double deck car is the cattle sound file prototypical?  *ducks*

[Cajonpassfan]

No Ryan, no ducks, just hogs, donkeys and cattle 
Otto K., duckING...

[sirenwerks]

Stock cars are like cabooses, to road-specific to really warrant injected molding quantity production.  More akin to etched kits.

[bbussey]

You may want one or two anyway. My Pennsy expert friend told me that after refrigerator cars hauling meat replaced cattle cars hauling livestock (meat is much easier to handle than live animals), the Pennsy regularly used stock cars in place of boxcars when hauling goods not damaged by rain or wind. Examples would be terra cotta tiles and pipes, etc. That's why I'll get one...

@brill27mcb, do you have a timeframe of when Pennsy started this practice?  It certainly would help justify having a stock car in a non-cattle environment.

[Cajonpassfan]

Stock cars are like cabooses, to road-specific to really warrant injected molding quantity production.  More akin to etched kits.

Oh, but I must respectfully disagree; they are not at all like cabooses. While they didn't roam as freely as boxcars, stock cars did get extensive use on foreign rails, with multiple roads' cars often in a single consist. The home road "unit train" look is and was for the most part a PR department fantasy of a later era.

I'm only pointing this out because a blanket statement like this, when taken at face value, can discourage people from buying perfectly appropriate models...
Kind regards, Otto K.

[pjm20]

Stock cars are like cabooses, to road-specific to really warrant injected molding quantity production.  More akin to etched kits.

Nope, I'm not assembling 40 to 50 stockcars for the PRR's Man o' War! Most railroads had hot shot stock car service, so they are nice operational fillers that do not require an industry but are prototypical.