Rail N Box

[chefjavier]

Can anyone tell me about what happend to the yellow box car the said Rail N Box on the side. I use to see them in the 80's.

[cacole]

If you mean Rail Box Corporation, the answer is here:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railbox

I see a lot of these that are still in use on the Union Pacific Sunset Route through Arizona.

 

[chefjavier]

Cacole:

Yes, I mean Rail Box box car. I just move to Austin, TX and I saw a few of them passing thru the city. The last time I saw them were in N.J. in the 80's. Thanks for the information. Who's owns the rail line that's passing thru the city? I see allot of boxcar from Mexico?

[cacole]

Since I-10 runs through Austin, the trains you're seeing are probably the same ones that run through southern Arizona parallel to I-10 on the Sunset Route - Union Pacific.  I see a lot of rolling stock from Mexican railways here, too, because the Union Pacific exchanges traffic with them at the Nogales, Mexico/Arizona border crossing point.

 

[ezielinski]

I still see strings of them in Northeastern Wisconsin.  Bunches in the yard in Stevens Point, and ones here-and-there at various industries.  They haven't disappeared.