Re: PC: Cattle cars on TV-12

[Stephen Vargo <anthrax2525@xxxxxxxxx>]

 I remember seeing in Bob Yanosey's PRR car color guide a photo of an 86' jobbie, along the lines of the NP/BN Big Pig Palaces. It was painted in an odd yellowy lime-green color, and marked for Food Fair. There was only one large car, followed by a few of the homemade converted 50' auto boxes. It was at Horseshoe...

 Don't know if this will help or mean anything, but I thought I'd contribute...

Steve Hipes <sthipes -AT- hotmail.com> wrote:

> List members:
>
> After looking at a picture of TV-12, resplendent with a pair of 86' hi cube 
> cattle cars on the head end, I started thinking, I know these cars carried 
> hogs to a slaughterhouse in Philadelphia but which one? Was this the last 
> movement of livestock on Penn Central? I'm going to assume TV12's schedule 
> made it a "NF" i.e. No Feed train. Somehow, this movement lasted in the 
> Conrail years, 1979 for sure but maybe 1980 or even '81. I can check on 
> that. Any comments?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Hipes
> CP-130 Main Line Burt to Columbus
>
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