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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1976 - 1/2/2019
Album Info:Catch all for other freight equipment not in its own album. Again, modelers, have at it.
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New Look
Title:  New Look
Description:  But not for long. The Rock Island had been in bankruptcy since 1964, and by this time was on its last legs. In the mid 70s, a new management team had started a rebranding of the road, now "The Rock", and started painting everything in this blue paint scheme. It was like putting lipstick on a cow, dressing up the look, but it didnt hide the decay underneath. One of the new look gons in eastbound on RF 7 passing Jamaica station.
Photo Date:  4/11/1978  Upload Date: 11/24/2016 3:59:58 AM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  882   Comments: 2
Yard A
Title:  Yard A
Description:  Yard A at Sunnyside was one of several the LIRR used at that time to handle freight on the west end, others being the float yard near Hunterspoint Av(6th Street, I think), and Fresh Pond. At the time of this photo in 1978, Yard A was quite busy, as can be seen from this photo taken from the No 7 Flushing IRT, which passes over the yard on Queens Blvd. Ten years later, much of the west end freight activity would be centered around Fresh Pond as Yard A lost its prominence due to traffic declining in the Long Island City area.
Photo Date:  4/18/1978  Upload Date: 11/24/2016 4:26:48 AM
Location:  Sunnyside Yard, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  420   Comments: 1
Heavy duty car
Title:  Heavy duty car
Description:  This CR depressed center flat was at the yard in Pittsfield Mass, convenient to the GE plant there. You have to like the EL box in the background too.
Photo Date:  7/13/1984  Upload Date: 6/27/2014 3:04:46 AM
Location:  Pittsfield, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  1046   Comments: 1
GE car
Title:  GE car
Description:  A GE depressed center flat is on the NYSW at Utica.
Photo Date:  7/14/1984  Upload Date: 6/27/2014 3:08:00 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  930   Comments: 1
Uncovered
Title:  Uncovered
Description:  A steel coil car without its lid rolls west around Horseshoe Curve, showing its interior configuration, something not normally seen.
Photo Date:  9/27/1984  Upload Date: 7/3/2014 4:20:56 AM
Location:  Horseshoe Curve, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  554   Comments: 1
Special equipment
Title:  Special equipment
Description:  These two Westinghouse cars designed for carrying heaby transformers were in the Chattanooga yard.
Photo Date:  9/29/1984  Upload Date: 7/8/2014 3:47:24 AM
Location:  Chattanooga, TN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 5149(GP38-2)
Views:  811   Comments: 1
Not yet
Title:  Not yet
Description:  Another road that would disappear, the P&LE, was still a viable operation in the 1980s, having escaped Conrail in 1976. The next 15 years would bring many changes, and it eventually had most of its traffic dry up. The one time NYC subsidiary-see the NYC herald on the close end of the car-would be acquired by CSX, whose B&O had used it for trackage rights around Pittsburgh for many years. One of its gons is on this westbound on NS at Ft Wayne, with a load of pipe.
Photo Date:  6/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/13/2015 3:44:33 AM
Location:  Fort Wayne, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  696   Comments: 1
CR gon
Title:  CR gon
Description:  I was watching the action at the Allentwon hump, which can sometimes be interesting, especially with open top cars. This CR gon was being pushed over the top with a load of steel.
Photo Date:  7/18/1987  Upload Date: 5/16/2015 4:50:11 AM
Location:  Allentown Hump Yard, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  340   Comments: 1
CR gon 2
Title:  CR gon 2
Description:  A second Conrail gon was getting pushed over the hump and into the bowl, also with a load of steel.
Photo Date:  7/18/1987  Upload Date: 5/16/2015 4:52:36 AM
Location:  Allentown Hump Yard, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  317   Comments: 1
Steel road gon
Title:  Steel road gon
Description:  The Philadelphia Bethlehem & New England, the plant railroad that served the Bethlehem Steel plant, had a fleet of cars for interchange, such as this gon with ingot molds going over Conrails Allentown hump.
Photo Date:  7/18/1987  Upload Date: 5/16/2015 4:55:12 AM
Location:  Allentown Hump Yard, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  620   Comments: 1
Heavy duty
Title:  Heavy duty
Description:  This heavy haul flat is needed for this Babcock & Wilcox load, seen rolling north on BUPO at BD.
Photo Date:  10/17/1987  Upload Date: 6/9/2015 3:30:21 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  DH 654(U33C)
Views:  469   Comments: 1
Big stuff
Title:  Big stuff
Description:  This generator was on a D&H 12 axle flat car. Dont know what the weight was, but obvously heavy. D&H served GE Schenectady, and got these heavy and often dimensional loads from time to time. Todays JET 1 has the duty of getting it to Buffalo.
Photo Date:  3/19/1988  Upload Date: 7/5/2015 4:26:30 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  589   Comments: 1
Getting harder to find
Title:  Getting harder to find
Description:  Now 12 years into Conrail, predecessor equipment was becoming harder to see. I was happy to see this former Pennsy gon coming into Enola on ALEN. Welcome home!!
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 3:33:38 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  551   Comments: 1
Odd load
Title:  Odd load
Description:  This load was on the westbound Hopewell Turn as it passed under the SCL at Petersburg. Looks like part of a power shovel, perhaps coal mining equipment.
Photo Date:  5/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/13/2015 5:01:26 AM
Location:  Petersburg, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  362   Comments: 2
Heavy load
Title:  Heavy load
Description:  This heavy piece of equipment was on an eight axle flat at Elmira, going east on ELOI.
Photo Date:  12/10/1988  Upload Date: 9/16/2015 1:22:43 PM
Location:  Elmira, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  467   Comments: 2
Low profile
Title:  Low profile
Description:  This Wabash gon was keeping a low profile, carrying only reporting marks and no other decoration. It had been 25 years since the road was swallowed by NW, so it was a surprise to find this car.
Photo Date:  5/20/1989  Upload Date: 10/9/2015 3:35:08 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  536   Comments: 1
Belly up
Title:  Belly up
Description:  This Conrail flat has the duty of taking this upset coal gon to a repair shop, belly up. Car was on MEBU at QD.
Photo Date:  7/13/1989  Upload Date: 10/29/2015 4:16:31 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  341   Comments: 1
Iateresting load
Title:  Iateresting load
Description:  This pair of dimensional loads was right behind the power on an inbound BUME. Dont know what these are, but they are loaded on the top of the two depressed center `latcars, which strikes me as aS odd way to load, since it does not appear that the loads need the depressed centers.
Photo Date:  8/28/1990  Upload Date: 1/25/2016 4:57:19 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5683(SD40-2)
Views:  584   Comments: 1
Old classic
Title:  Old classic
Description:  One of the good things about CP taking over the D&H was seeing equipment that might not have made to Binghamton otherwise. Heres a TH&B gon in a 558 train passing Endicott.
Photo Date:  3/6/1995  Upload Date: 8/26/2014 2:42:33 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  278   Comments: 1
Depressed center flat
Title:  Depressed center flat
Description:  This depressed center flat car was spotted going north on CP train 555 at Oneonta.
Photo Date:  8/12/1995  Upload Date: 8/13/2014 3:15:29 AM
Location:  Oneonta, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  483   Comments: 1
Good to see an old friend
Title:  Good to see an old friend
Description:  This Wheeling and Lake Erie gon has been relettered, but is on much more familiar turf, as we can see by the paint. Good to see a returning prodigal son!!
Photo Date:  1/28/2003  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 2:44:38 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
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Views:  268   Comments: 1
Never thought Id see this in the 21st Century!!
Title:  Never thought Id see this in the 21st Century!!
Description:  The former LV Sayre shops were, at the time of this photo(and may still be) run by GE Railcar, which did contract rebuilding and wreck repairs. It was a busy place, and some days, ALCG and CGAL set off and picked up significant numbers of cars here. Among the many odd and obscure items that turned up here was a set of Rock Island gons, in full RI lettering and excellent paint. The only thing not RI on these cars were the reporting marks, which were assigned to GE Railcar, and later to Wells Fargo.. Almost a quarter century after Rocks demise, and long after just about everything Rock had disappeared from the American rail scene, who ever would have thought something like this would turn up in Sayre PA??
Photo Date:  2/18/2004  Upload Date: 6/3/2017 4:02:42 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  282   Comments: 2
Hand me down gon
Title:  Hand me down gon
Description:  This car was on H 88 going through Endicott. Its current reporting marks are for the Youngstown & Austintown, part of the Ohio Central group, but its previous life on Missouri Pacific is evident at the other end of the car.
Photo Date:  4/26/2006  Upload Date: 5/27/2018 5:07:36 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  268   Comments: 1
Coiled up
Title:  Coiled up
Description:  A BNSF coil steel car is at the yard in Ft Scott Kan, complete with cover to protect the rolled steel coils that will be used to make such things as cars, trucks, and appliances.
Photo Date:  2/27/2007  Upload Date: 3/2/2017 5:20:38 AM
Location:  Fort Scott, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  196   Comments: 1
Sand car
Title:  Sand car
Description:  Sand has been an important commodity on the A&M for a long time, and they have equipment dedicated to the service, such as this car at Garfield on the Monett Turn.
Photo Date:  10/1/2014  Upload Date: 10/2/2014 4:33:26 AM
Location:  Garfield, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  375   Comments: 1
Coil steel
Title:  Coil steel
Description:  A KCS coil steel car rolls south to the Ft Scott Sub
Photo Date:  10/18/2014  Upload Date: 11/5/2014 3:08:10 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  191   Comments: 1
NOKL coil car
Title:  NOKL coil car
Description:  Alolg with the Class 1s, a number of short lines have aquired some specialty cars, among them NOKL, as shown by this one going onto the BNSF. It's interesting to note that thf covers don't always match the car-this one is lettered for Johnstown America
Photo Date:  10/18/2014  Upload Date: 11/5/2014 3:11:56 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  213   Comments: 2
Conrail gon still at it
Title:  Conrail gon still at it
Description:  This Conrail gon was on a southbound on the UP ex MP at Wagoner
Photo Date:  11/29/2014  Upload Date: 12/5/2014 2:47:41 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  258   Comments: 1
Eagle
Title:  Eagle
Description:  This MP gon still carried its eagle/buzzsaw herald. Southbound on the ex MP at Wagoner
Photo Date:  11/29/2014  Upload Date: 12/5/2014 2:52:32 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
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Views:  188   Comments: 1
Sunset Route
Title:  Sunset Route
Description:  This ex SP gon had a Sunset Route herald. Either it was SP and has not been repainted, or UP put it on there to keep the trademarked name active. Im betting the latter. Grab shot from the car.
Photo Date:  11/29/2014  Upload Date: 12/5/2014 3:00:36 AM
Location:  Wagoner, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  216   Comments: 1
CAGY coil car
Title:  CAGY coil car
Description:  A coil steel car with Columbus & Greenville reporting marks on H KCSH at Watts on the KCS.
Photo Date:  2/7/2015  Upload Date: 2/13/2015 2:21:40 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  152   Comments: 1
Scrap gon
Title:  Scrap gon
Description:  For a regional, A&M has a pretty varied roster of equipment. One of their customers ships scrap metal, using these gons for the purpose.
Photo Date:  6/23/2015  Upload Date: 9/28/2015 3:10:37 AM
Location:  Rogers, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  256   Comments: 1
J gon
Title:  J gon
Description:  The Elgin Joliet & Eastern, now a CN subsidiary, went bare bones on lettering their cars.
Photo Date:  2/4/2016  Upload Date: 2/16/2016 3:21:15 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  145   Comments: 1
In the chips
Title:  In the chips
Description:  A loaded wood chip car on the southbound H train. Chips are not especially dense-not like, say, stone-so they are loaded in high cube cars. These hoppers all look so tall at trackside.
Photo Date:  2/4/2016  Upload Date: 2/16/2016 3:25:18 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  187   Comments: 1
Two names
Title:  Two names
Description:  This bulkhead beam car is lettered for the Bay Line, but carries MSRC reporting marks. Doesnt matter what it looks like, as long as it carries lumber.
Photo Date:  2/4/2016  Upload Date: 2/16/2016 3:28:30 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  191   Comments: 1
Pulpwood
Title:  Pulpwood
Description:  A rack of logs rolls south on the H train.
Photo Date:  2/4/2016  Upload Date: 2/16/2016 3:43:45 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  224   Comments: 1
Big business
Title:  Big business
Description:  There are quite a few of these loads I see on KCS trains headed for paper mills, such as the large one in Ashdown, just north of Texarkana. Despite the digital age, paper is still important. This rack was passing through Siloam Springs on an H train.
Photo Date:  9/29/2016  Upload Date: 10/5/2016 4:41:12 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
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Views:  417   Comments: 1
Old rack
Title:  Old rack
Description:  Another part of the forest products realm is finished lumber, carried in these 73 foot centerbeam flats. This one is still lettered for Mid South, taken over by KCS years ago.
Photo Date:  9/29/2016  Upload Date: 10/5/2016 4:51:35 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  187   Comments: 1
Covered coils
Title:  Covered coils
Description:  This Conrail covered coil steel car was northbound on CSX at Marietta GA.
Photo Date:  3/23/2017  Upload Date: 3/31/2017 4:52:09 AM
Location:  Marietta, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
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Views:  153   Comments: 1
Open coils
Title:  Open coils
Description:  It always amazes me how some products youd think the shippers or railroads would want to be covered up are not, either in transit, or at an industrial facility, and that steel would be among them. Yet, here we see a couple of NS coil cars, their steel loads out in the open. Go figure.
Photo Date:  4/26/2017  Upload Date: 5/1/2017 4:30:29 AM
Location:  North Courtland, AL
Author:  Tom Beckett
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Views:  190   Comments: 1
ATW coil car
Title:  ATW coil car
Description:  This car was in H KCSH at Watts. Interesting how so many short lines own these cars.
Photo Date:  5/6/2017  Upload Date: 5/11/2017 4:22:28 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  173   Comments: 1
HS coil car.
Title:  HS coil car.
Description:  This car was also in the southbound H train. The reporting mark is assigned to the Chattahoochee Bay RR.
Photo Date:  5/6/2017  Upload Date: 5/11/2017 4:25:30 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  163   Comments: 1
Home road car
Title:  Home road car
Description:  Even with all the per diem coil cars out there, home road cars are still common. This one, with TFM reporting marks, was on todays H train as well.
Photo Date:  5/6/2017  Upload Date: 5/11/2017 4:27:12 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  191   Comments: 1
Mid South car, or is it Bay Line??
Title:  Mid South car, or is it Bay Line??
Description:  Funny how cars move around. This Bay Line(Atlanta & St Andrews Bay) car from a short line in Alabama and Florida, somehow wound up on another short line-well, regional-Mid South, as can be seen from the reporting marks. Now it's part of the KCS empire. It's northbound on the H train at Watts.
Photo Date:  7/21/2017  Upload Date: 8/14/2017 4:35:13 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  164   Comments: 1
Home road car
Title:  Home road car
Description:  As one would expect, there are a lot of these cars on the Bay Line, which taps into the rich pine forests of southern Georgia and the Florida panhandle. This one was at Panama City.
Photo Date:  8/8/2017  Upload Date: 8/28/2017 4:26:05 AM
Location:  Panama City, FL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  197   Comments: 1
Bank steel
Title:  Bank steel
Description:  The reporting marks on this car, CIGX, show ownership by Citigroup. Maybe the steel will be going to build a vault somewhere. This is on the northbound H train.
Photo Date:  9/7/2017  Upload Date: 9/19/2017 5:03:15 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  143   Comments: 1
Steel both ends
Title:  Steel both ends
Description:  The coils on these cars weight about 40,000 lbs each-which is why you only see one of them on a truck trailer-but a coil car can carry four easily. Theyre over the trucks to put less stress on the car, as the wheels support the weight better. This car is on the north bound H train.
Photo Date:  9/7/2017  Upload Date: 9/19/2017 5:06:17 AM
Location:  Watts, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  151   Comments: 1
In the chips
Title:  In the chips
Description:  This wood chip hopper was eastbound on NS. Chips are relatively light, hence the large dimensions of the car.
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 1/2/2019 4:46:24 AM
Location:  Bremen, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  188   Comments: 2
All coiled up
Title:  All coiled up
Description:  An open steel coil car rolls north on the H train, 160,000 lbs of steel glinting in the sun.
Photo Date:  1/27/2019  Upload Date: 2/22/2019 4:54:56 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  68   Comments: 2
Old classic
Title:  Old classic
Description:  This classic open hopper was on an eastbound BNSF train.
Photo Date:  2/12/2019  Upload Date: 2/22/2019 4:51:28 AM
Location:  Neosho, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  69   Comments: 2


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