This particular car's shell is made of a single sheet of plate steel, spiraled and welded. The early morning sun highlights the frost on the flanks of the car, which is loaded with anhydrous ammonia, a common fertilizer:
@HemiAdda2d Very cool looking tank car. Would make an inteesting model. @SP 9811 I love the 'vanishing point' perspective. Very nice balence.!
New equipment, '70s style. RBOX 10367 was the first I ever saw, built 12/1974 in the 10000-series, found at Barrington, IL, summer 1975. WP 64728 was built 07/1977 and shot in the fall of 1977 at Knoxville, TN.
Not only is the boxcar likely gone today, but so is the large Jewel Foods manufacturing plant its spotted at, demolished about 2004 for a park.
Two more I found, both in Montgomery, AL. NP 97697, built 10/1964, found Sept. 1984 and NP 96199, found Aug. 1990. I can't read the build date on this one.
I have only one SP or SSW car and it's in bad light. SSW 24122, built 11-1974 and photographed about 1975 at Barrington, IL.
A couple of Ventura County Railroad/Golden West Service (SP) mechanical refers bring up the rear of a west piggy train near Lancaster CA. 1993... R-70-24 ex PFE built in around 1971.
Some more from the Chutes-Ste-Ursule train: CN boxcar: And a KCS boxcar: And something from the Golden Triangle Railroad: The roar from the spring thaw-swollen Maskinongé river was deafening! I could barely hear the train rumbling by.
But wait! There's more! How about an exercise in weathering? I've had paint do the orange peel thing but this is ridiculous: Some really beat-up gons: Metal recycler. Plenty of dings and dents.
Likely didn't last long. So far, it's the only car I've ever seen or photographed with that lettering. There's nothing like it in my Dad's photos either.
