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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by ericsp</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by macguy</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by modorney</i> <br /><br />This was done a few decades back. <br /> <br />http://www.trainweb.org/mccloudrails/Equipment/Boxcars.html <br /> <br />Here's how it worked. A small shortline "bought" a few hundred boxcars. They immediately (with a leasing company) found dentists and other investors to pony up 40 grand, or so, for their own boxcar. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />In regards to that link, I wrongly assumed at "MR" was a reporting mark of Montana RailLink, it is in fact a reporting mark of the McCloud Railway Company. <br /> <br />That's interesting to me because I see the "MR" reporting mark all the time in my area on boxcars. <br /> <br />Interesting.[8D] <br />[/quote] <br />Some of them come fairly frequently to Scholle in Merced, CA. It seems like they usually go empty to Port Coquitlam, BC. I think they must be bringing down cardboard. They seem to be in the same group with a bunch of SRY and BNSF boxcars. I have notice FBOX in there also. <br /> <br />I wonder if these MR boxcars have ever been on McCloud Railroad? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />We must be watching the same equipment. [:)] <br /> <br />The SRY (Southern Railway of British Columbia) is a Class III that runs from New Westminster to Chilliwack, under 100 miles of mainline. <br /> <br />The SRY is a sister railway to Montana Rail Link, which is why I assumed "MR" was a reporting mark for MRL, I figured the SRY was just using MR equipment. <br /> <br />Turns out all this time MR has nothing to do with the SRY or MRL except that those two railways use McCloud Railroad equipment. <br /> <br />I would have to think they are on some sort of a long term lease, as there are usually a good number of them.
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