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QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh well i got the second one the car was probably hauling lumber and the cars have tarps and then underneath have plastic too.we get alot of flatcars with lumber where I work at.the tarps are usually tied down with metal straps too. hope this helps stay safe Joe
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie BNSF - B40-8 #8634 and GP60B # 346 - what is this combination called? (the GP60 was cabless) - is this the old cow/calf or just an extra power unit? And a freight car with a plastic tarp not tied down very well over the top. Is this SOP or something out of the ordinary. Too tall to tell for sure, but don't think there was a permanent cover over the top. Top load car. If this was allowed to go thru the country - the tarp would have been torn off - so they probably tied it down before it left town, but.... why not a covered top car? Mookie
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QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon SWEET!!! Another quickie with Mook AND she mentions that french stuff.......hee heee heee or I guess ho ho ho
QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR [%-)]Sis, tell me more about the freight car...was it a woodchip gon? I've seen former woodchip gons with tarps before; they're used to carry hay. We've had the thread about woodchip cars and how they're unloaded; I wonder what happens to these hay cars when they get to their destination (which more likely than not is not equipped with a dumper). If the car was more like an old coal gon with a tarp over it, it might be hauling contaminated dirt to a disposal site. Probably no major disaster will develop if the load is exposed, but having the cover on it just makes folks breathe easier (if they even give a thought to what's in the car).
QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR If it's hay (and I suspect it was), they probably use a crane of sorts to lift out the huge bales, or whatever they call those big rolls of stuff. (Oh, no...now we've done it! Mook mentioned "quickie", and I mentioned "roll" and "hay". We're gonna get ourselves kicked off for sure. Tell you what, kiddo...take a week or so off, and come back after the furor dies down!)
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh well i got the second one the car was probably hauling lumber and the cars have tarps and then underneath have plastic too.we get alot of flatcars with lumber where I work at.the tarps are usually tied down with metal straps too. hope this helps stay safe Joe Don't they usually use the open lumber cars to haul it? Can it be hauled in just a regular looking freight car with sides and all? That would be a pain to get it out of there! Yeah, this had straps - just like grain trucks, but one wasn't fastened quite right! Major faux pas! (That's French for oops....and the only French I know other than "3's company") Moo
Quentin
QUOTE: Originally posted by trainheartedguy [img=right]http://paintshop.railfan.net/backlot/satx_hi-side_gon.rh.gif[/img=right] Did it look at all like this?
QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar .....You can't stay out of the office can you....Isn't this vacation time to enjoy...
QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken Just a normal roadswitcher power lash-up...The GP-60B is treated as just another locomotive. It could run on its own. The former ATSF SD45-2m (B) #5502 has been seen around here as a pusher unit on the back end of a big coal train MU-ed to an SD70MAC...Not considered as a cow-calf situation. (not a slug either).... How the mighty have fallen! The GB-60B was supposed to only be used on transcon priority intermodal trains. Now it's working roadswitchers.... (At least it's still around, the BN 4000 series B30--7A(B)s are all long gone).... MudChicken
QUOTE: Originally posted by drailed1999 QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken Just a normal roadswitcher power lash-up...The GP-60B is treated as just another locomotive. It could run on its own. The former ATSF SD45-2m (B) #5502 has been seen around here as a pusher unit on the back end of a big coal train MU-ed to an SD70MAC...Not considered as a cow-calf situation. (not a slug either).... How the mighty have fallen! The GB-60B was supposed to only be used on transcon priority intermodal trains. Now it's working roadswitchers.... (At least it's still around, the BN 4000 series B30--7A(B)s are all long gone).... MudChicken I'll argue part of what you said about the B30-7A(B)s , we had the 4011 sitting in Sacramento near I-80 for a long time [dinner] Is it time for cake yet ?? I've got the milk!!!!!!!!!!! [:-,][:D]
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