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What Type Cars?

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What Type Cars?
Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, September 18, 2004 7:11 PM
I often see this type car..
http://www.pbase.com/jarrell/image/33965681
on a siding near a Lays potato chip plant near my home in central Georgia, U.S. This particular group was roughly one mile long. What type cars are they are what are they mostly used for?
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 18, 2004 7:22 PM
Those are autoracks. They carry finished autmobiles to unloading ramps where they are put on trucks then off to your local dealer. walthers makes a great model of these
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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, September 18, 2004 7:47 PM
Ok, thanks Andrew..
Somebody's getting a lot of cars!
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Posted by Fergmiester on Saturday, September 18, 2004 9:06 PM
We see alot of those around here as Auto carriers come into Halifax from Europe offload the cars at Shearwater and then onto trains. We see UP , NS, CP, CN etc.

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=5959

If one could roll back the hands of time... They would be waiting for the next train into the future. A. H. Francey 1921-2007  

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