Southern Pacific Freight Cars, Vol. 3

Automobile Cars and Flat Cars

by Anthony W. Thompson


Table of Contents

Prologue and Acknowledgements5
1. Introduction9
2. Freight Car Basics15
AUTOMOBILE CARS
3. From Furniture to Automobiles31
4. Automobile Cars of the 1920s51
5. Hog Fuel Cars81
6. Pre-War Automobile Cars99
7. Post-War Automobile Cars119
FLAT CARS
8. Early Flat Cars153
9. The Harriman Period177
10. Post-Harriman Flat Cars205
11. Logging and Pulpwood Cars227
12. General-Service Flat Cars after 1940245
13. Piggyback Flat Cars277
14. Modifications and Special Equipment321
15. Heavy-Duty Flat Cars355
Appendix 1: Additions to Volumes 1 and 2377
Appendix 2: Diagrams391
Appendix 3: T&NO Sideboard Flat Cars402
Bibliography403
Index409