FGE/CSX toolcar (Pictures)

[Dough]

I’ve asked this before, but now I have pics. Has anybody else seen any old FGE cars used as toolcars? I have seen three on CSX recently. I have pictures of two of them below. Any clue as to why these all ended up in MoW service and how many more are out there?

910970
I have heard that this is the number and it is defiantly a similar FGE car as I can see it from an overpass on the expressway. It is sitting in a yard next to a flatcar. Neither of them seem to see much action.

910973
This one was on a work train that went through Athens and Winder, GA. Not the ladder all the way to the roof.


91092X
This is on a siding at Tilford Yard in Atlanta. I believe that it is another toolcar. The picture has something blocking the last number. I would be extremely appreciative if someone in the Atlanta area could head over and get that last digit for me…[;)]


Thanks for looking!

[Anonymous]

http://community.webshots.com/s/image14/2/21/32/171522132TIwmLy_ph.jpg



don't remember the number but this one is sitting on a csx siding in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio next to a SCL/l&N family lines boxcar. Both are used as toll sheds.


andrew

[Dough]

Hey that's great! I figured that there were more of them. I just wonder how this came to be?

PS: I just copied and pasted the link from properties. I can never get webshots to show up...

[ericsp]

At least two of the cars pictured have brake wheels mounted at the top of the ends. This means they are probably built in the early 1960s. That probably explains why they are in MOW service.

[MP57313]

I have not seen any of those cars in MOW service, but here is a different car out west that has a ladder to the roof and a roof-walk (scroll through to the second picture). This car is "trapped" on an abandoned siding no longer connected to the rail network.

http://abandonedrailroads.homestead.com/ca_sp_santa_monica_air_line.html

[Dough]

Yeah, I have seen a bunch of toolcars. Some even on severed lines like above. And I'm sure that they were put into MoW because of age. I just wondered what caused so many FGE to go there instead of scrap?[?]

[CShaveRR]

I'd suggest that if they have to be occupied in any way (as a foreman's office, or whatever), the insulation would make them a lot more bearable, not to mention easier to heat or air-condition.

[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR

I'd suggest that if they have to be occupied in any way (as a foreman's office, or whatever), the insulation would make them a lot more bearable, not to mention easier to heat or air-condition.

Also, the plug doors probably keep moisture out.

[Dough]

Thanks for the responses, all of those ideas make sense.[;)]