RECENTLY? How many years back can we go with recently?
I thought recently meant the last 6 weeks.
Andrew
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Rail-Roadwarrior wrote:A few years back I had an original Norfolk Southern covered hopper in my train. Don't know how rare these are but that one was the only one I have ever saw.
Last week, or the week before, I had a box car with NS reporting marks and number from the current NS, but still painted in the lettering of its original owner--the old NS!
Carl
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CShaveRR wrote: I've seen it all. Seriously.Almost (both all and seriously).
Seriously.
Almost (both all and seriously).
I really should put a better asterisk by this: one of my favorite expressions (not always dealing with freight-car spotting) is "Just when you think you've seen everything..."
And, of course, I'm still looking!
original un renumbered DT&I autoparts boxcars on the I&O(former DT&I) track here in nw ohio.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
.....Has anyone noted any railcars in existence somewhere from the LVRR....{Ligonier Valley RR}...? They were a coal hauler in southwestern Pennsylvania. Abandoned in 1952.
On rt. 30 {west}, I saw {years ago}, the sides of LVRR hopper cars employed as parts of a restraining fence holding back sliding rocks, etc....4 -5 miles west of Ligonier. But I've never seen any rolling stock from that line anywhere else on the rails. I wonder if any survived...?
They also had a passenger car and years before probably several of them. Also they employed two different doodlebugs that ran between Ligonier and Latrobe, Pa.
Quentin
In the early-90's I strolled-through the former CGW yard at Oelwein back when the CNW still owned the trackage. They stored a lot of locomotives and cabeese there (thought I was in Heaven seeing the executive F-units there). Off on a weeded-over siding west of the police station I saw a MOW flat-car that still bore the Minneapolis & St. Louis Rwy reporting marks (MSL as I recall).
The original ownership of the Iowa Northern had a cut of former EL open-top hoppers that I believe they were using for ballast. They still had the EL diamond logo when I saw them stored on a siding at Vinton, IA.
WIAR wrote: In the early-90's I strolled-through the former CGW yard at Oelwein back when the CNW still owned the trackage. They stored a lot of locomotives and cabeese there (thought I was in Heaven seeing the executive F-units there). Off on a weeded-over siding west of the police station I saw a MOW flat-car that still bore the Minneapolis & St. Louis Rwy reporting marks (MSL as I recall).
MSTL or M&STL. Those flats are about all that survived beyond the UP merger, but I remember box cars, RBLs, gons, and hoppers (including a series of ex-C&O cars) as well. The couple series of coal gons don't count, because they were relettered MSTL after being leased by CNW, to avoid numbering conflicts.
WIAR wrote: The original ownership of the Iowa Northern had a cut of former EL open-top hoppers that I believe they were using for ballast. They still had the EL diamond logo when I saw them stored on a siding at Vinton, IA.
Soon after obtaining the ex-RI lines in Iowa, CNW obtained what was left of an EL series of hoppers (some of which had been relettered for CR). Those cars were relettered FDDM (a CNW heritage reporting mark from the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern), again to avoid conflicts with an existing series of CNW freight cars.
Took a better look at the CB&Q hopper and gondola here. The hopper only has the burlington name showing, along with the original reporting marks on the ends.
I forgot something about the gondola. It's a 65' BN one, with C & S reporting marks! Imagine that!
Reading the other posts, i've seen original NS covered hoppers twice. Also have photos of D&H, Milwaukee (with orig reporting marks), soo line, MP, ICG orange, MNS, Frisco, Rock,EL (forgot i had it), Chessie (incl an airslide), CNW (incl a 70 ton),and a Santa Fe with just the square logo. Rock, Frisco,WP,N&W (incl an older brown one) MNS, Milwaukee, Gullford/MEC,MP, and a Apalachicola Northern Boxcars (nearly all with original reporting marks). 86' Boxes in N&W (brown), ICG, Frisco, and GTW (original blue ones). Frisco open hopper, MP gondolas incl a covered, and pre all TTX yellow autoracks, incl a SSW owned one. All within the last 10 years. Many within 5 years. Gonna have 2 go railfanning the transcon and see what else pops up.
I always tell people to LOOK AT THE REPORTING MARKS!!!! Back around 1992 or so my girlfriend at the time worked at Weyerhauser lumber warehouse. She comes home from work telling me a boxcar load of lumber in a Rock Island car was on the dock. I go take a look w/camera in hand. Dry run. Car was indeed still lettered Rock Island but now belonged to CNW. We had a lesson on reporting marks later.
HankDiggs wrote:Several years ago, I photographed an old B&O hopper in the house track at the depot in Kennesaw, GA -- had the "Capitol" logo on it, paint still in fairly decent shape.
csx still has some B&O covered hoppers in cement service with the capitol logo. but of course the ones I saw had csx reporting marks.
The old Lousiville & Nashville Double-Door 86' Auto Parts Boxcar only have Helm Leasing's HLMX reporting marks and numbers on blue rectangles as alterations. There is also a great deal of rust streaks on these steel box cars.
I have seen all kinds of "fallen flag" rolling stock... but in almost every case, the reporting marks indicated it's real owner.
About the only car I can think of seeing, and I don't know if it's even there any more, is an old CGW tank car, somewhere along the trip to Union Station in Chicago. I had seen it a few times while riding METRA downtown. I can't remember it's exact location, but the last time I saw it was about 2 years ago, I should think. Other than that, I have seen Rock Island, Norfolk & Western, Penn Central, IC, ICG, and a whole slew of others, but in each case, the reporting marks indicated the real owners. Still and all, it's interesting to see the old paint schemes surviving to this day. I love when I see the old ICG hoppers, in the orange paint and the old "I" in the circle logo. Great memories.
thanks for all the replys... i seam to guess that out there most of the unusual cars are parked up or in captive M O W service...... looks like i can hold onto some of my older models perhaps one of each.... i have quite a few train videos lots of the runby shots where they show the entire train for 24 hours very good videos i note that in these videos unusual cars are rarely if ever shown..... what about the perdium cars from the 70 or 80's this was the time when short lines owned hundreds of cars and sent them out to earn money and they never went back to their own roads ... i have quite a few of these colorfull cars any still around
i have been to america a couple of times and perhaps the only unusual items i saw were FRISCO cars saw perhaps 6 of them peter
If you Look closely you will see the per-diem boxcars have either had their reporting marks repainted or the entire car has been repainted by new operators. They are still too new to be retired.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
Saint Lawrence Railway..... Who Knows were they are....
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?
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