Off season uses for stock cars

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Brent

One usage I can vouch for personally is carrying brick. The former Old Virginia Brick Company in Salem, was about a mile from my house and back in the mid to late 1960s, I remember seeing stock cars in the siding at the place and asking my father about them. Since he was Radford Division, and had often worked the Salem Shifter here, he said they were used for transporting the brick because it was not easily damaged. By this time, the cattle business had virtually vanished from the N&W.

I would have to suspect that transport of straw was only baled. I kind of doubt tires would be shipped via stock car, those might have been a more valuable theft target in basically an open car.

Photographs showing the cars carrying brick would really not reflect anything different other than their location on a siding.

Ken Miller

On Apr 11, 2017, at 6:50 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> I was recently told that when not actively engaged in transporting livestock,, stock cars were used to haul hay/straw, or tires, or any other commodity that does not necessarily require that much protection from weather.
> 
> Does anyone have or know of any photographs of N&W stock cars in such alternative service?  Any additional examples of alternative loads for these cars?
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> Thanks,
> Brent 
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