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Reply to "O gauge, open top cattle cars?"

I believe this is the car that DMASSO posted, and the kit is available in O scale.  http://www.btsrr.com/bts9521.htm 

Sorry Hotwater but open top stock cars were a thing for railroads for American Railroads in the 19th century.  They were cheaper to build and they were lighter.  They could easily be improvised from flat cars.  With much animal traffic being relatively short distance there probably wasn't much concern that the animals would suffer excessively from lack of a roof.  They would probably have had walls higher and more substantial than the Lionel version due to the fear the animals might try to escape in transit.  I don't have access to my White's American Railroad Freight Car at the moment. I suspect though that it is the need for transporting animals over longer distance on western roads coupled with the fact that a roof made it easier for brakemen to move from car to car that drove the replacement of open top stock cars with roofed cars, although shipper concerns may also have played a role.

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