New hoppers Here are a couple hoppers I shot today going through Mendota IL. Best part of a long "junk" train :angel:
[FONT=""Trebuchet MS""]Scanned in some old pics. These are along Old Route 66 east of the 89A interchange west Flagstaff Ariz. 1989 [/FONT] [FONT=""Trebuchet MS""]The weathering on these cars are great. [/FONT]
Ex- MP woodchip hopper, Macon, GA Couple of 100-ton covered hoppers, Amarillo, TX, 4-30-06 Empty BNSF coalie on ex- Ft. Worth & Denver rolling thru the Texas Panhandle
EB TEPX coal train on the Transcon, bound for the Baca Branch. About 1.5 miles west of Continental Divide, NM.
Seen on the BNSF main line This hopper looked like new except for the personal paint job of inter city weathering
Hemi, nice! Balou, those Flagstaff hoppers look like they've paid a visit to my workbench weathering machine! I'd like to know what the rails on the sides of these hoppers are for. This is GCCX 1168 and a sister car:
Some sort of environmental cover for a dusty load? Maybe the rails are for some sort of loading apparatus?
Cut of Willamette & Pacific ballast hoppers on P&W "Westside" line (ex-SP), north of Corvallis, OR Ex- Missouri Pacific woodchip hopper, Brosnan Yard, Macon, GA BNSF hopper with new-look logo (and ex-BN hopper to right for comparison), Amarillo, TX Last of a unit train getting pushed over the summit at Continental Divide, NM
Coal loads charge east, and the mid-train units are framed on a D&RGW bridge at Burns, CO, on the Dotsero Cutoff:
