An excuse to start a new topic. We have cabs, racks, tank cars, hoppers, coil cars, box cars, and now................ gondolas!
These are my favorites because of their utilitarian use. Here are some scans of two I took in Dolores Yard in Alemeda, CA around 1995. Who is this? Alabama and Mississippi, I think? I remember that this was the first speed lettering I had seen on a freight car.
A CNW gon, sitting in a train. DRGW North Yard in Denver, Co. A barely visible DRGW gon, hiding in North Yard, by car repair facility.
Network Rail 'Falcon' box open, looking very American! More traditionally British looking is this 1950's built vacuum braked iron ore wagon, seen here in MOW service in 1999. This wagon will likely be razor blades by now as there are no more vacuum brake workings on the main line...
Caught the following in a UP freight train Sunday, July 28. A Missouri Pacific gon with pipe load. A Rio Grande gon, with what appears to be steel shavings. Gonna have to trust me on the DRGW car!! Almost didn't see it until it was too late. And no chance for another photo. Could barely read lettering, as car was slightly filthy!
From the Georgetown Loop last year... Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures) - Georgetown Loop Railroad {2004} [ April 15, 2006, 07:53 PM: Message edited by: Stourbridge Lion ]
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D&RGW#710 at the Pioneer Museum Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures) - Pioneer Museum {1991} [ April 15, 2006, 08:00 PM: Message edited by: Stourbridge Lion ]
The trains loaded with crushed limestone from the Texas Hill Country are a good place to spot fallen flags. I saw this one last year.
Rock train about x.x miles long [edit] (Wait a minute. About half the length of Kirby Yard. That would be less than a mile...about 4-5 thousand feet.) with four 6-axle GE's on the front. All empty. I got this shot at the East end of Kirby Yard as it passed over the low water crossing here. This is a CNW; there were all types of roads, even SP. All the gondolas were like this; no high sides or hopper cars. This is probably the crushed limestone train Russell Straw referred to in an earlier post in this thread. - Two more pictures as I sit outside the new gate. This fence is for enhanced security. BTW, I am beyond the no trespassing sign here but still outside the gate. Am I legal? [ August 11, 2005, 08:49 PM: Message edited by: sapacif ]
A close look will reveal a battered Rio Grande herald on the opposite end: CSX: Both by me in Cheyenne.
