Odd Car Lettering

[csxengineer98]

well....today as i was going to my car after work...a train came down the main..not a big deal in itself...and i normly dont give them a second glance after the power goes by...but tonight i did..and saw something that struck me as odd..... it had a block of what looked like brand new double stack cars...that where a ligh blue in color... but then when i looked at the numbers....it was painted in white in english DBLSTK with a number in the 8100's...but right below that it was what looks like arabic lettering ...and evey car marking was in enlish and what looks like arabic.....
anyone have any imput? cars off to the national railroad of Iraq?...
csx engineer

[csxengineer98]

i guess no one has any idea then? after 30+ people looked at this tread..i figured someone would have some input...but it looks as if im wrong....oh well....
csx engineer

[jeaton]

csx

Seems like our man in Iraq has either been busy or won't comment on it. Certainly is a possibility.

Jay

[Hugh Jampton]

I did hear tell of Iraq ordering a load of container flats,, but I think theese are being built in Poland.
There are other Arabic countries, perhaps they're for one of them

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mark_W._Hemphill

I rarely have time to look at more than 1-2 threads a day (working 18-hour days, 7-days a week kind of cuts down on the free time), but was alerted to this question by a friend. Maybe if IRAQ was in the headline I would have noticed it!

Anyway, I have no idea where the observed cars are destined, but not to Iraq. However, the IRR is taking delivery of 120 intermodal flats from Poland, via water to Tartous, Syria, then rail to the interchange point at Rabiyah, Iraq. 20 or so are already incountry and down to Mosul. (Hugh is da man.)

they where heading east at the time..and they where all empty.... now dont take it as gosple that it was in arabic..but it deffenlty wasnt english....it could have been some other laugange that uses alot of sqiggly lines for charators....but evey marking on the car was in english and this other language in question... i did an AAR reporting mark surch..but nothing in the north american regester...so im thinking they are for export.... just tossing a line out thier to see if anyone had any clue... i just found it odd that it had both english and another laguage markings.....
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[mustanggt]

Very odd indeed..... When I read the post I thought: " Maersk cars?" but you never know, they could be for another country or something.

BTW: Mark, do you know what the track gauge is over there?

[csxengineer98]

well...it looks as if someone else has seen the cars in question..and got a pic of them.... it was on Trainorders sight....
here is the link.... http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,905329
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[csxengineer98]

UPDATE
i just got my august issue of progressive railroading... and the mistery is solved...
in this months issue..they have a multi-page write up on FreightCar America... and in this artical is a pic of the cars i saw and a caption stating that they are for Saudi Arabias's Saudi Railways Organization....
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