Ok, pulling a coupler drawbar out of the draft gear, fine. But nearly ripping of the B end off the car is another deal altogether... Maybe someone didn't put enough glue in that part of the kit. Reminds me of the stories of the EMD FT demonstrator tour. A lot of pulled coupler knuckles, drawbars and mangled draft gear.
Sometimes I see some weird stuff on the rails, such as a very well executed Pepe Le Pew painted on the side of a freight car. Just a while ago, I see and hit Print Screen on a fallen flag spray-painted on the side of a hopper: I looked up what I suspected, and it is indeed a crude MKT logo... If one looks long enough at trains, one is bound to see the darndest things. On LiveTrains' Baer Jct Camera, Houston TX.
Wasn't quite sure where to post this one, so I'll put it here. SOU 992501 scale test car at the NC Transportation Museum at Spencer NC, 02/25/1995.
From April 1979 at Knoxville TN, MSE 964 built September 1978. Despite the closing of the paper mill at Moss Point MS in 2001, the railroad remains strong and independently owned.
Sadly, I passed a flat-bed semi with four freight trucks on I-65 near Enterprise, AL. I was so distressed that a railroad equipment contractor would stoop so low as to ship railroad trucks by a truck.
How these once fine cars have fallen. I'd normally not waste electrons shooting a car looking like this, but I did so as part of an effort to paint and decal a Railbox car in N Scale. I shot several cars at the time and used a Roundhouse car for my model. [11/11/2013, Dillon, SC]
From October 1988 at Montgomery AL, an MILW boxcar. It's hard to read the number, but I'm guessing it's 6343, which would put it in with the 6300-6399 series of 60' Double Plug Door cars.
I think this was the only other original NS car I found outside of a museum. Boxcar NS 2208 was at Dothan, AL on 06/18/1988.
