Long work days and short daylight makes it hard on this railfan. Weather permitting, we're heading to Tahoe next week, so perhaps some UP in the Snow.
N&W had red hacks of this type, so I'm guessing that it's N&W vintage. Thought I'd add to our NS/N&W theme with this shot at Big Four, WV taken 02/22/1998.
How full do they load those hoppers? I have seen gypsum loaded before on CN but they used shorter ore type cars.
I forgot until now, but I shot this ex-N&W hack at Rockton, SC at the interchange with the South Carolina Railroad Museum in October 2011:
I found this ex-CNW, now AEX 15448 sitting at the end of the siding at Ag-Com in Gettysburg, PA this week. This was in the blue CNW paint scheme. 20151201_130859 by Adam Henry, on Flickr
They had a cable winch for moving the cars as they were loading them and then a front end loader to push a string of 6 loads where they hooked the blade into one of the ribs on the side of a hopper.
Speaking of C&NW Covered Hoppers, a friend spotted this one a few months ago. Lovely and mostly unspoiled by graffiti.
Good thing the paint is so weather worn. Few people understand prep and paint costs of a decent job on a freight car. Or how much work it can be to repair a sprung door/rail. Been there, done that and turned the air blue doing so!
Kind of neat to see the BNSF cross on the plow and BN reporting marks. As little work as can be got away with?
