About 3 years ago on the CN in Michigan for a few months there were some B&M Exterior-Braced 50' Plugged Door Boxcars with Dreadnought Ends still in the complete 1973 B&M Blue & Black paint scheme. It was in great shape for a Boxcar series 25 years old at the time.
Add Boston & Maine to your list of freight cars to keep.
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J. Edgar wrote: locomutt wrote: Not really rare or obscure, but caught these several days ago here in Louisvilleon old PRR trackage going to Osborne Yard.(now L & I) well not to date myself or anyone here.....id call 'em rare or obscure...been 20 yrs since the "offical" merger that ended the Chessie and the SCL and almost 30 since the "corpate" merger......and since i was i've always known it as either the C&O\B&O or Chessie seeing something like this make me say "Look look !!!!!!!! weres the camera"
locomutt wrote: Not really rare or obscure, but caught these several days ago here in Louisvilleon old PRR trackage going to Osborne Yard.(now L & I)
Not really rare or obscure, but caught these several days ago here in Louisville
on old PRR trackage going to Osborne Yard.(now L & I)
well not to date myself or anyone here.....id call 'em rare or obscure...been 20 yrs since the "offical" merger that ended the Chessie and the SCL and almost 30 since the "corpate" merger......and since i was i've always known it as either the C&O\B&O or Chessie seeing something like this make me say "Look look !!!!!!!! weres the camera"
Maybe I should have said: "rare and obscure" yet.
Apparently they are not old enough to have qualified for the ARR retirement program.
I grew up basically knowing the "Old" C & O, not any of it's spin offs, or merger companions.
I think I just "dated" myself....makes me no nevermind, I'm very proud that I've lived this long.
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
On my way to the NRHS convention in 2005, I saw an Northern Pacific gondola on an industrial spur near Eugene, Oregon. It was in well-worn condition (surprise!), with the carrier name barely legible.
Far as I recall, it did not have updated reporting marks--BNSF is probably at liberty to go on using the ones from predecessor lines for as long as it's convenient.
up until Ohio Central took over operation from CSX over the Central Ohio Sub. CSX use to run a C&O cabosse from Newark to Cambridge and back with the original no# 3287, my buddy modeled it.
I don't know what ever happen to it.
peterjenkinson1956 wrote:i have repainted 8 x B & O / C & O COVERED HOPPERS I AM WEATHERING THEM FROM USED TO DERELICT THANKS TO THE FORUM I FOUND A USE FOR THEM OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE DITCHED THEM,, sorry for the caps peter
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In Kent, Ohio one can see grain cars on the Akron Barberton Belt Ry division of the Wheeling & Lake Erie at our mill; they frequently carry the colors of the former NYC, PC, E-L, and C & NW. But I was taken aback the other day to see a W & LE train with a unit on the head end in complete D & RGW colors; what a treat, here in Ohio!
Kent also has a bridge still painted "Nickel Plate Road" and in Akron there is at least one clearly painted "Erie" with the requisite diamond heralds.
transitrapid wrote: Saint Lawrence Railway..... Who Knows were they are....
Saint Lawrence Railway..... Who Knows were they are....
On Friday 5/5, behind the O. Winston Link Museum (former N&W passenger station) in Roanoke, VA, I saw a former St. Lawrence boxcar in a NS train. New owner must have sanded or sandblasted the former name off the car, because you could read the name in the very rusted areas of the boxcar, which otherwise was in reasonably good condition.
In 1997 or before, you could still read the "Western Maryland" on the girders of an unused former RR bridge right next to I-70 between Hancock, MD and Baltimore.
There is a bridge that still carries a very readable black ACL RR label (bridge is silver) visible from U.S. 84 between Valdosta and Waycross, GA.
Maybe 10 years ago, also on U.S. 84 in south GA, saw a NYC boxcar still in its eye-popping jade green. The lettering and logo were still in good shape.
J. Edgar wrote: its not a car but its a fallen flag....Howell MI circa 1995
its not a car but its a fallen flag....Howell MI circa 1995
nice photo
I think the St Lawrence Railroad/Railway was a Pickens property - they were part of the huge boxcar leasing boom some years back. The actual railroad was in St Lawrence County in NY.
Saw an SP autorack the other day, installed on an SP flatcar - unusual in that most that I see are installed on TTX flats...
transitrapid wrote: Saint Lawrence Railway..... Who Knows were they are....Pittsburgh and Shawmut--- No clue were that is
Pittsburgh and Shawmut--- No clue were that is
St. Lawrence Railway is located in Canada. It is still in operation. Genesee & Wyoming operates that rail line.
http://www.gwrr.com/default.cfm?action=rail§ion=3B6a
Genesee & Wyoming took over the Pittsburg & Shawmut, then was merged into the Buffalo & Pittsburg.
Andrew
Hillsdale MI 1992ish....disconnected tracks but all appliances are there
Pennsy Cars mostly gons but they are still out there
Erie-Laccawanna reapaint mostly coal cars
Pittsburgh and Shamutt--- No clue were that is
Lake Erie and Clarion- Railroad beens out of buisness for what? 20 years?
packrat wrote: I realize this isn't rolling stock but in Akron, Ohio there is a girder bridge (being used reguarly) that has a very nicely (original) "ERIE". It has been there as long as I can remember, pretty good since there hasn't been an Erie RR since 1963. Packrat
Had to pipe in on this one. Between Alma and McFarland, KS on UP's former SSW/RI line there's a rusted silver through girder bridge with "Rock Island Lines" still visible on it. Anybody can view it as the road between those two towns paralells the line here.
I have a photo of it if i could figure out how to post it!
A couple of years ago I saw a Frisco hopper passing by as I waited for our local light rail.
My parents worked for Frisco, so I was very excited to see it and know there are still a few
"coonskins" still floating around.
ArtOfRuin wrote: There are still some boxcars floating around where I live of Pan Am's predecessors in their last-before-Guilford paint schemes (B&M, MEC), though the B&M and MEC boxcars are slowly turning into Pan Am cars. Some of their MOW equipment and snowplows still wear McGinnis-era B&M and harvest gold MEC paint, although two of the MEC plows were recently repainted with a black dip job and small Pan Am globe logos.I've also seen old N&W, BAR, D&H, ATSF, BN, SP, SCL, Chessie System, Rock Island (The Rock), and BC Rail boxcars in the past two or three years, some with new reporting marks. Most of them were in sorry shape, but the N&W cars were surprisingly clean.
There are still some boxcars floating around where I live of Pan Am's predecessors in their last-before-Guilford paint schemes (B&M, MEC), though the B&M and MEC boxcars are slowly turning into Pan Am cars. Some of their MOW equipment and snowplows still wear McGinnis-era B&M and harvest gold MEC paint, although two of the MEC plows were recently repainted with a black dip job and small Pan Am globe logos.
I've also seen old N&W, BAR, D&H, ATSF, BN, SP, SCL, Chessie System, Rock Island (The Rock), and BC Rail boxcars in the past two or three years, some with new reporting marks. Most of them were in sorry shape, but the N&W cars were surprisingly clean.
We must be seeing the same trains. lol
I've also seen some EL gondolas, an SP&S boxcar, plenty of Pennsy gondolas (all pretty banged up), a NYC boxcar for the ACY, a Reading boxcar in pretty good shap, Lehigh Valley covered hoppers, and some really old CN boxcars with the Maple Leaf logo.
John
JA5559 wrote:A very large percentage (probably 80-90%) of the covered hoppers seen on CSX thru Folkston GA are from predecessor roads, some even B&O and C&O.
On two occasions I've seen some former SCL covered hoppers of the type that SCL used for transporting phosphate rolling-through Dayotn's Bluff (until CP started banning rail fans from that great spot because some yo-yo's got too close to the tracks). The hoppers still had the big black "SCL" very visible on the cream-colored cars. Nice to see - never saw the SCL in action but I always liked their paint scheme.
Late one afternoon during July 1995 I was driving south out of Rapid City, SD on a two lane highway. As I approached the "Cowboy Line" a few miles west of Chadron, Nebr., the highway crossing signals came to life. Looking down the track, I saw a westbound C.& N.W. way freight approaching. I had just enough light and one exposure left in my camera, so I hopped out of my car and snapped-off a picture of the approaching train. Well, bummer, that I didn't have an additional exposure left because a few cars behind the engine was the real find: a two-bay, 77-ton capacity M.& St.L. covered hopper sporting its original paint scheme! There it was 34 years after the CNW-"Louie" merger, and the car looked to be in pretty darn good shape.
Not so many years ago the BN was interchanging C.B.& Q. plus G.N. tank cars to the Union Pacific for loading company diesel fuel at the Cheyenne Frontier Oil refinery. Some CGW tank cars with their "Lucky Strike" heralds intact may still be hauling diesel fuel to the U.P.'s terminal at South Morrill, Nebr.
Also Union Pacific is supposed to have decorated six open top hoppers stencilled for the D.& R.G.W. and each sports an ancient herald like the Curecanti Needle design, "Thru the Rockies," and so on.
I wonder if the Chicago Transit Authority still has any maintenance of way flats that were, at one time, on a first name basis with the late Samuel Insull?
Once in a great while I'll see a black-with-white-reporting-marks Northern Pacific wood chip gondola, but they're becoming rarer and rarer.
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