DECALS, 50' TOFC FLAT CARS 60045 to 60057

TOFC flat cars 60045 to 60057, 13 cars, 52-0 long of 140,000-pound capacity were built in 1945 as plain flat cars 66000 to 66249 with straight side sills and fish belly center sills. Cars 60050 to 60057 were converted to TOFC service in 1954 and cars 60045 to 60049 were converted in 1955, both lots by adding tie down chains and rub rails on the flat car deck attached to the original stake pockets. All were equipped with friction bearing trucks and were set up to handle two 24 foot single axle trailers or one dual axle 40 foot trailer.  These 140,000-pound capacity cars were in demand as flat cars and their 140,000-pound carrying capacity was wasted in TOFC service. They were removed from TOFC service and returned to service as plain flat cars between 1959 and 1965. The good thing about the nominal 50 foot cars is that they were a low cost, low risk way to enter the TOFC business. The bad thing was that the tare weight was very high for the loads they were intended to carry. All other G