What are some weirdest car loads has anyone ever seen

[Anonymous]

A large water slide, too large to go over the road, on VTR going from the fair at Rutland Vt to the Big E in Springfield, MA

[waltersrails]

Thats cool i understand why now. ive seen the same thing before on ns.

[SchemerBob]

If I remember right it was a BN SD40-2 and some freight cars. I just suspected it was a mixed freight and then I saw the backhoes in the hopper cars. It wasn't a very long train, maybe 8 or 10 cars long, but I really don't remember; it could have been even shorter than that.

[waltersrails]

How could you not know?

[SchemerBob]

QUOTE: Originally posted by joegreen

QUOTE: One time I saw a BNSF train with a couple backhoes in hopper cars.

That would be part of a MoW train.They put those up on the hopper cars or gondols so they can pick the ties out of the cars and set them on the ground.

Cool, I saw a Maintenance-Of-Way train without even knowing it[8D].

[waltersrails]

Well i saw yesterday a some coal cars hauling new wood ties. Very wierd.

[SALfan]

I didn't see this, but my in-laws did. After the first Gulf War, a trainload of flatcars carrying blasted and burned Iraqi military equipment.

[gacuster]

When they were building a lift bridge downtown the steel girders for the span came in pieces on flatcars and were then placed on a barge for final transport upriver to the construction site. Also the local crane co. (Manitowoc) ships giant cranes by rail sometimes with the cab on one flatcar and the pieces of the lattice boom on other flatcars.

[ndbprr]

Snow! When major storms hit the northern railroads load up gons and hoppers and ship them south to melt.

[DanRaitz]

Not only was Clint in that movie, but Lee Marvin also!! What a way to ruin a musical. Great movie though, if you can get by the singing.

[jimrice4449]

When I was working the third trick opr job at Saugus on the SP a H'wood production co. was filming the movie version of the musical Paint Your Wagon (would you believe Clint Eastwood in a musical?) in Central Oregon,
. They rented a bunch of wagons from a prop co. and had these horse drawn wagons (minus the horses) loaded onto 85' pig flats. It was doubly noteworthy for me because the picture of it I took was the only pic I ever managed to get published by Trains Magazine.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by DanRaitz

How about this!!!



I took this on Tehachapi pass in the summer of 1995. Sorry for the quality of the photo, but when something like this rolls by you shoot it! I think it might be a partially completed float going to Pasadena? Anybody else have any guesses.

Dan

it looks like the ceo of bnsf

[ndbprr]

Snow. After a major storm with nowhere to put it northern RR's dispatch Gons, hoppers and anything else filled with snow somewhere south so it can melt.

[Anonymous]

I think we have our winner!
}:)>

[DanRaitz]

How about this!!!



I took this on Tehachapi pass in the summer of 1995. Sorry for the quality of the photo, but when something like this rolls by you shoot it! I think it might be a partially completed float going to Pasadena? Anybody else have any guesses.

Dan

[DPD1]

When I was a kid, on the EJ&E I use to see some of these cone shaped loads on flats, that said NASA on them. Never did figure out what those were.

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[AlcoRS11Nut]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bnsfkline



a wrecked AC4400CW in three parts on a intermodal car in Jefferson City, Missouri. (YAY! Thats how a GE SHOULD be)

GREAT MINDS THINK A LIKE!!!!!!!!!! [:D][:D][:D][;)]

[CShaveRR]

In the past two days we moved three flatcar-loads of rubber-tired "trolley cars". Chicago's loss (or replacement) is Portland's gain!

[Anonymous]

A CSX train Friday night (9/9) carrying flats and gons of small MOW equipment. Must have been every speeder and 4 wheel crane they had in the state. Headed east from Lawrenceville, GA (east of Atlanta).

[Junctionfan]

A Flat car carrying a wheeless GATX tanker heading to Toronto Mac Millan Yard

A Flat car carrying a crane truck

Centerbeam flat carrying panel track.

[bnsfkline]

A flat car with a NdeM G12 in Kirkwood, Missouri

A boeing 767 aircraft in Oklahoma City

a wrecked AC4400CW in three parts on a intermodal car in Jefferson City, Missouri. (YAY! Thats how a GE SHOULD be)

[TH&B]

A bulkhead flat carrying canoos and kiyaks.

Internaly at a scrap yard gons carrying flattened autos cross wise and loaded high, it looked like it could tip.

A flat car with one realy giant truck tire.

[Modelcar]

....The TRAIN OF TOMORROW back in about 1947 with 4 or 5 brand new and new in concept...dome cars. It was traveling on the S&C {B&O at the time}, in Pennsylvania from Johnstown to Rockwood and we were let out of school to walk about a qtr. mi. to see it....Don't know how school officials knew it was coming. That line was an all coal hauler at the time so this train was REALLY special for {anyone}, to see....Something new right after "the war"....It was exciting...Must have been as I still remember it vividly.

[joegreen]

QUOTE: One time I saw a BNSF train with a couple backhoes in hopper cars.

That would be part of a MoW train.They put those up on the hopper cars or gondols so they can pick the ties out of the cars and set them on the ground.

[SchemerBob]

One time I saw a BNSF train with a couple backhoes in hopper cars.

[spbed]

DOD trains @ Daggett heading west with tanks/APC & various other types of equipment used for war. It call those trains your tax dollars @ work[:o)][:p][:)]

Originally posted by railfan619
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Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR  Austin TX Sub

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