Interesting freight car loads

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  1. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    South Fork, CO, 2005:

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    Cheyenne, WY, 2004 or so:

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  2. BNSF FAN

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    NS MOW - Probably semi permanently attached to the flats. Dallas GA
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  3. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    D&RGW did something similar, BNSF FAN. In the mid-80s, they stopped using old WWII troop cars for MOW service and went to this modular concept you posted. I'm sure there's more creature comforts in these than the old steel cars!
     
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  4. Hytec

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  5. BoxcabE50

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  6. HemiAdda2d

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    Very interesting indeed. I think it's interesting how NS wants to keep using them, but railroads in really remote regions, such as class 1s in ND, MT, WY, SD and other remote states can get by with hotels.
     
  7. ddechamp71

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    6 years ago 50 km west of Montreal, QC : a truckless GP38-2 riding on a flatcar.. :) P4160708.JPG P4160709.JPG P4160710.JPG


    And finally, on the very same train, a little bit further down... ;)

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  8. Hytec

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  9. ddechamp71

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    :LOL::LOL::LOL:

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  10. HemiAdda2d

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    South Fork, CO:

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    Cheyenne, WY:

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  11. r_i_straw

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    Portland, Oregon, June 21, 2009.
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  12. Kurt Moose

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    Wouldn't want to be trackside when this train would roll by at 50mph, can you imagine a loose piece of scrap flying off!!:eek::confused:o_O
     
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  13. BNSF FAN

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    Pensacola FL - 2008
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  14. sidney

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    hummm wonder what kinda airplane use's those props hahahahahahahahaha (i know there for wind power )
     
  15. HemiAdda2d

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    Komatsu machine frame component westbound on the CP Portal Sub:

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  16. r_i_straw

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    My road grader arrived today.
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  17. BoxcabE50

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    This goes back a few years! I remember seeing these in my youth. The operator would often be standing up to observe his work in progress.
     
  18. Hardcoaler

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    July 1980 at Suffern, NY

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  19. Mike VE2TRV

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    Cool! Oil-filled high voltage circuit breakers. The oil inside quenches the arc that is produced when the breaker opens.

    That box on one of the breaker chambers is the control cabinet. That's where the magic happens to open the breaker when there's a fault (short circuit).
     
  20. Hardcoaler

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    Oh, that's cool Mike. I never knew what these could be.
     
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