SOUTHERN PACIFIC FREIGHT CARS - VOL 4: BOX CARS (REVISED)/Thompson Maps Rolling on over 900 miles

Rolling on over 900 miles of former Northern Pacific track through Montana

Lake Louise

works the plants and delivers their long trains of sand hoppers to the Norma Yard in Chippewa Falls where this traffic is interchanged with the Union Pacific

This video also includes footage of the Southern Pacific numbers 2472 and 4449

beet loading and processing

SOUTHERN PACIFIC FREIGHT CARS - VOL 4: BOX CARS (REVISED)/Thompson Maps Rolling on over 900 milesTHIS BOOK HAS BEEN REVISED AND REPRINTED AND IS AVAILABLE ONCE AGAIN! This excellent book features the complete history of SP boxcars. Chapter headings: Freight Car Basics; Early Box and Combination Cars; Fruit, Ventilated and Refrigerator Cars; Huntington Common Standard Box Cars; The Harriman Period; The Post Harriman Period; Box Cars of the World War I Era; Return to Traditional SP Design; Box Cars of the Late 1920s; Steel Box Cars of AAR Design;