What worries me the most is that there's no duct tape on that rigging... That's a real beauty. It looks recently repainted, and not too dinged up for a gon.
Micro Train's pole loads look even sketchier than the MP load, with too few spindly verticals and poles loaded far above them. Call me a Doubting Thomas, but I am suspect that M-T used a prototype photo for this load. I have this car and shake my head each time I see it.
Yes, my thoughts exactly. Having poles or longwood loaded above the stanchions would be immediate cause for rejection, as would too few and puny stanchions. This longwood car is an example of proper loading. [06/26/1991, Columbia, SC] M-T should have included two N Scale people, an Agent and Shipper engaged in dialogue about why his load wasn't pulled.
Tree-length pulpwood by rail was new at the time (as was tree-length debarking and enlarged slasher decks at paper mills) and it took a number of trips with these new cars to work things out with the railroads on what constituted a safe load. Eventually, all was settled and we never had a problem. Independent pulpwood truckers bent the rules on weights, lengths and loading above stanchions at night, but at dawn, truckloads were amazingly transformed to full legality.
Caught NS 1068 this evening on grain Train 51D, the Erie heritage unit. It was heavily overcast and the rush hour traffic was impossible, so I abandoned my plan to intercept it further north and settled for this roadside grab shot. Gotta love digital photography -- 3200 ISO! I know that sounds like nothing, but for a guy raised on Plus-X and Kodachrome, it still amazes me.
I agree with you and @Kurt Moose, the contrasting shades of green, with bold logo and striping make for a fine looking unit. I'd caught it before, here on 06/21/2018 in somewhat better light.
Two "foreign" road units here abouts the last two days. This one no longer says UP on it anywhere except the heralds, this may be normal?? And my favorite CSX scheme,
