Nostalgia & History > Rare auto rack

The Rio Grande auto rack question reminded me of the very few T&P auto rack cars.  It was really amazing that with the large GM plant in Arlington Tx on the T&P that there would be so few of these.

Were there other roads with such few cars?

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>  It was really amazing that with the large GM plant in Arlington Tx on the T&P that there would be so few of these.

Hello,

With the way equipment pool agreements were usually set up for specialized cars like auto racks, each RR was responsible for only a certain % of the necessary fleet.  As the "home road" for the GM plant, T&P wouldn't have needed to supply a lot of cars, only their proportion of the cars required by the pool agreement's formula.

Take care,

Mark

TTX owns the flatcars; the railroad owns the racks.

The Nickel Plate had 10 tri-level auto racks