Random Railfan Prototype Photos For All

Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. ddechamp71

    ddechamp71 TrainBoard Member

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    Clewiston, FL, summer 2010. The locomotive is a GP11, a rebuilt of what initially was a GP9. Interresting to see that some cars still ride on Bettendorf/journal box trucks nowadays...

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    Dom
     

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  2. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    That would limit any such cars to non-interchange, maintenance of way, idlers, or? What is that car USSC 7777? Do you have a photo of it?
     
  3. Eagle2

    Eagle2 Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Well, USSC is (or was) United States Sugar Company. It kind of looks like it may be a scale test car, and if that's true it wouldn't need to meet interchange requirements.
     
  4. ddechamp71

    ddechamp71 TrainBoard Member

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    Unfortunately I've no dedicated picture of this car else than in its consist. But the pic below could give some clues.

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    I don't know what's this car's purpose. But as said above, this train is run by US Sugar Company, which is one of the biggest sugar hauling railroads in the world. This company purchased the local shortline South Central Florida Express a while ago and its assets consist of the shortline (formerly a CSX branchline), and a dense network of tracks that run within sugar fields. One can look on Google Earth, it's very interresting. During sugarcane harvest, one can oftenly spot 50-car trains with a single 4-axle locomotive at the point (here a GP38-2) going to the mill in Clewiston. Unfortunately, many unavoidable "no trespassing" panels are displaid here and there...

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    As of that Bettendorf equipped car, I guess it deals with some sort of maintenance. In my opinion it can't be interchanged. And, as far as I know, it can't be used for any commercial transportation. But as USCC is an industrial railroad, maybe rules are different...

    Dom
     

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  5. LegomanBill

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    Caught this over the weekend in Golden. It would not be the most surprising thing I would see.
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  6. Eagle2

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    Nice tease there, Bill. Hope that means more to come!
     
  7. BoxcabE50

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    Curious. It doesn't look like anything for carrying a load. If a flat car of some type, rather unusual. Looks like far more than just an idler.
     
  8. BoxcabE50

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    Yeah. He must be an expert fisherman, using tasty bait like that...
     
  9. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    It's safe to say that I'm not the only one who's going for it hook, line and sinker!;)
     
  10. ddechamp71

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    What's the trick here? ;) Inusual rebuilt unit? "Foreign" leasing company far from where it's usually seen? ;)

    Dom
     
  11. ddechamp71

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    Yes, I've been wondering since the day when I took the shot. Unfortunately I've no more opportunities to go to Florida ans I can't get any answer... And BTW when I used to go there I didn't have the idea to go to USCC/SCFE headquarters and ask them...

    Dom
     
  12. LegomanBill

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    It wasn't even this that surprised me the most...
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  13. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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  14. Eagle2

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    Definitely a hasty remarking job, and that Schnabel(?) must have been a treat to see.
     
  15. BoxcabE50

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    The quickie latex paint job is washing off.

    So this isn't what caught your eye? Then it was....?
     
  16. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Is this recent? I recall a big move a few years ago.
     
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  17. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    I just found some old slides from March of 2005 and rescanned them.
     
  18. LegomanBill

    LegomanBill TrainBoard Member

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    This was it. Although, I successfully managed to screw the photo up. (It's what I get for not rolling down the window)[​IMG]
     
  19. BoxcabE50

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    Hmmm. I don't see any other re-markings, so it's not a leaser. BNSF must be re-shuffling their roster numbering system?
     
  20. Mike VE2TRV

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    That's a cool Schnabel unit and load. There's even a caboose in the consist...

    Interesting to note that on the right of that horribly patched/renumbered BNSF loco is a car with an untouched ATSF reporting mark!:cool:
     

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