This is a car I have been considering doing as a kit for quite some time. Just have to find the best way to produce the containers. The spines are the easy bit
This is a car I have been considering doing as a kit for quite some time. Just have to find the best way to produce the containers. The spines are the easy bit </font>[/QUOTE]I bet you can make the containers too... make them open top and let the buyers supply the "tarp". Harold
This is a car I have been considering doing as a kit for quite some time. Just have to find the best way to produce the containers. The spines are the easy bit </font>[/QUOTE]I bet you can make the containers too... make them open top and let the buyers supply the "tarp". Harold </font>[/QUOTE]Good idea, Harold
Harold, Are those containers for Sludge? I found an article online about them. OR - do they haul trash too? DO yo know where they were headed. If loaded w/ sludge they would have been limited to three per spine, per article. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_n11_v192/ai_11542805 most interesting. wonder how many of these are on the rails....... another builder: http://www.johnstownamerica.com/products/fcp_abc.htm
I am not sure what they are loarded with... in the hotter months, I try to keep my distance from them I would guess the larger volume containers are loaded with solid, compacted garbage (now in spiffy orange containers!) however the smaller container with the "tarps' could contain sludge.
I am not sure... they used to run dedicated trains south R277 ? (Maybe to Richmond?) we see large blocks of them on trains coming South and smaller blocks when empty heading north. Harold
I know a lot of cars go south to Florence, S.C. where they are interchanged with the South Carolina Central RR for "disposal".
Train Q405, which I caught Sunday in Rocky Mount, N.C., had huge blocks of trash cars and made up about 75% of the total train! Harold
CSX is re-designating most all the the 'K' train fleet.... The Tropicana OJ train has been changed from K650 to Q740, with the empty side of the train becoming Q741. The rest of the Trash and scheduled aggregate fleet have been give train designations in the Q700 series.
That's interesting information.... I caught a K652 (northbound Juice train) on Sunday of this week... Harold