Old subject but my memory is fading for some reason? Was the P2K boxcars painted for the Southern accurate to any prototype? I have several plus some undecorated kits that I am finally getting around

They still have car's at the siding by the Stokely Plant when I was in Newport, TN in March of this year. Mike

A major traffic source on that line, up through the 1960's was the Stokely Cannery in Newport, TN. Lots of boxcars shipped between spring and fall. George Courtney

A wood deck. That would make for a different model. Might have to save these for a future project. The layout does have two pulpwood yards. Jason Greene

Ooops, I believe that is a flat car conversion drawing! Ike

Jason: Here are three wood rack items from the SRHA archives. The first “pulpwood loading instructions” explains why the cars’ floor needed to be sloped inward. The second is a stencil drawing

Bob is correct they were V shaped with drain slots in the bottom of the drain.-- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

shallow v-shaped slope. -----------------------------------------From: "Jason Greene" To: main@southernrailway.groups.io Cc: Sent: Thursday April 30 2020 5:35:41PM Subject: Re: [SouthernRailway]

Did these cars have flat decks or were they sloped? Jason Greene

Except for my old friend Fenton Wells. I missed reading some of my email inbox. Sorry for the dislocation. Bob Graham -----------------------------------------From: "Robert Graham" To:

The car coupled directly behind the faded SOU PS-1 40ft XM is one of the SOU Spencer Shops rebuilt pulpwood racks, empty. Behind it on an adjacent track is a gondola. I've attached a photo I made Jan

Ike, That strange car you’re talking about looks like two cars. One on the near track is a bulkhead flat and the one beyond is a gondola. I might be wrong but that’s what it looks like to me.

Gentlemen, that is in fact a pulpwood rack coupled to the PS-1. It is one of the racks built in Spencer in the early 1950's from the SR 40 double sheathed automobile furniture cars. -- Fenton

Bill: I agree with you about that a pulpwood car next to the boxcar. The giveaway is what a flatcar looks like. Mike

On a closer look, I think Dan had the right explanation. Looking closely at the low-res photo, it does look as if a gondola is behind one of those old pulpwood cars. —Bill

It looks to me as if it is a car used to transport panel track accompanying a derrick. Panel track consisted of pre-fab sections of track, 39’ rail spiked to new ties, that was used to put the

I agree, Dan figured it out. the 60xxx road number is correct for a gon and the box car end is correct for one of the box car to wood rack conversions. The photo is like a double exposure or optical

I have to agree with Dan. That is a pulpwood car with a gondola sitting on the track behind it. James Wall Rural Hall, NC

The only thing I can gleaned from that photo is that it is/was cut down from a boxcar at some point. This is based on the end, which appears to be that of a boxcar. It also appears to me, to have

Ike, Could it be a pulpwood flat with a gon behind it? Looks like the ribs cut off at the same level as the deck of a pulpwood car. Dan