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The Lionel Railroad Club of Milwaukee, Inc. is
Add more excitement to your layout stockyard
operations with these two single door ACF 40-ton stock cars. Car 102721with
SD markings was one of 2000 built in 1927 by the Bettendorf Co. for
the Milwaukee Road. Car 105254 with SM markings was one of 1125 built
in 1929 by the Standard Steel Car Co. and was slightly longer. Class
SD indicated a single deck car with four drop bottom doors to facilitate
cleaning, SM, without drop bottoms. Although livestock was a commodity
in steady decline after WW II, stock cars were used by railroads through
the 60’s.
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