In the lower left corner, just above the Great Northern reefer you can see a car with some unique looking containers/covers. There is a second three cars up in that same string. Any idea what they are?
https://www.shorpy.com/node/25867?size=_original#caption
Mike
They look like LCL containers. MTH makes models of them
https://www.walthers.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/845x425/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/g/o/gondola_wlcl_containers_3-rail_ready_to_run_railkingr_507-3072126_big.jpg
More on them in Jeff Wilson's Express, Mail, and Mechandise Service book.
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That style is pretty specific to the PRR. I built one of the Funaro kits but still need to get the decal work done on it:
PRR_FM_container-2 by Edmund, on Flickr
http://prr.railfan.net/freight/freightphotos.html?photo=PRR_470318_F31_E8809_containerdoorsopen.jpg&fr=clF31
F&C also sells the containers as a separate kit.
Good Luck, Ed
One of the PRR ocntainers. Still some around, hiding in rail yards.
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Interesting! Thanks guys! I had no idea anything like these existed prior to modern type containers.
You may also see some containers similar to these that are squared off at the top and covered with tarps. They will usually be in a unit train, though, I have seen some shipped four or five cars together. These will be "Trash" trains.
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Atlas sells these trash cars that are modern versions of LCL on flatcar loads. I see them all the time from the West Shore Expressway on Staten Island where CSX picks them up from the NYC Sanitation Department and hauls them south to be dumped.
Joe Staten Island West
It seems the Penncy used ones with a more rounded look than New York ones.
Been looking for some of those, got one, an old Ambroid model buit but would like more.
Might any of these containers have been used on the west coast during the 1950s or were they strictly a northeast phenomenon?
Tim
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Capn, Not sure. Try finding the following issues of the PRRT&H's Keystone
PRR had a whole family of containers
http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?sel=cont&sz=sm&fr=ge
There were also containers used in cement service
https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/19724
CapnCrunchMight any of these containers have been used on the west coast during the 1950s or were they strictly a northeast phenomenon?
No and no. The MP had some similar containers.
Those containers were for LCL service on line, so they would have stayed on whatever railroad they belonged to. They would not have been interchanged because the car could only be loaded with those containers and other railroads wouldn't have facilities designed to handle them. They ultimately turned out to be impractical and were phased out.
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I was wondering some time ago, what these orange Containers were on this CSX vid. Approx halfway thru, they are definately 4 No. seperate units per wagon. Paul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX_zGt20sKY
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Those look like they might be trash containers. 3:43 mark in this video is the CSX Trash Train, black version of the same sort of container, just carriesd on articulated cars instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kblH5MWY_EU
According to Wikipedia, Q702 and Q703 run from the Brox NY via Philadelphia to Petersburg VA and interchange with the NS, running 4 containers per 89 foot flat car. Given where this video was filmed, it's probably one of those two trains.
Cheers Randy, I pressume they are sealed tight. I love the "Equipment Defect Detector" announcement towards the end. Nothing like that on UK Railways. Paul
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joe323 Atlas sells these trash cars that are modern versions of LCL on flatcar loads. I see them all the time from the West Shore Expressway on Staten Island where CSX picks them up from the NYC Sanitation Department and hauls them south to be dumped.
Joe,
At one time, the NS handled this train VIA the Shenandoah Valley line. I brought an empty train back north and swapped out crews in Shenandoah, Va. As this was a run through train, after swapping crews, we watched this train by in Shenandoah along with the RFE. As the rear of the train came by, we noticed that someone had coupled a double stack as the rear car. The RFE phoned ahead to Hagerstown to have that car removed from the train. Apparently, his call fell on deaf ears as later that week we heard that a Trash Train took out a bridge up in NYC!
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Thanks Dave, I did look-up DSEX - since noting the Reporting-marks on Freight wagons (from youtube vids) and then looking them up on the web is something I do in order to find out what's going-on - but this time; no info forthcoming. I noticed too, the heading of that page. Regards, Paul