Southern Pacific Freight Cars, Vol. 3
Automobile Cars and Flat Cars

Prologue and Acknowledgements	5
1. Introduction	9
2. Freight Car Basics	15
AUTOMOBILE CARS
3. From Furniture to Automobiles	31
4. Automobile Cars of the 1920s	51
5. Hog Fuel Cars	81
6. Pre-War Automobile Cars	99
7. Post-War Automobile Cars	119
FLAT CARS
8. Early Flat Cars	153
9. The Harriman Period	177
10. Post-Harriman Flat Cars	205
11. Logging and Pulpwood Cars	227
12. General-Service Flat Cars after 1940	245
13. Piggyback Flat Cars	277
14. Modifications and Special Equipment	321
15. Heavy-Duty Flat Cars	355
Appendix 1: Additions to Volumes 1 and 2	377
Appendix 2: Diagrams	391
Appendix 3: T&NO Sideboard Flat Cars	402
Bibliography	403
Index	409

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