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Posted by switch7frg on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:18 PM

SmileDarren,  your photos are  interesting of the old boxes. I was at the "apple" farm near Grand Jct.  a few yrs. past. There is a few of old boxes there  and there is a model train layout and gift shop.  Have you noticed the build date on the cars you pictured ??  I am looking for my photos  that I took  at the farm and try to post them when found.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:27 AM

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Posted by The Butler on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:46 PM

Seen along old US 66 in Mt. Olive, Illinois:

 

 


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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Monday, June 11, 2012 8:49 AM

Note to self, need to get a trip in on the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad... Thumbs Up

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Posted by spokyone on Saturday, June 9, 2012 6:26 PM

Very nice rest rooms in La Veta CO, after riding the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad over La Veta pass.

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Posted by locomutt on Sunday, June 3, 2012 5:24 PM

One of two boxcars used for storage at the P & L's Oak St. yard in Louisville, Ky.

 

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Posted by spokyone on Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:13 PM

Another, actually two repurposed box cars circa 1950 in Taylor Ridge Illinois. The Rock Island Southern had recently closed this line. Uncle Fred bought the insulated cars and trucked them to this site. He built this house, using the cars for load bearing walls.

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Posted by spokyone on Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:06 PM

Abandoned in Texas, I think.

 

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Posted by spokyone on Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:02 PM

Repurposed in New Mexico.

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Posted by Espins1 on Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:25 PM

I took this photo out past the NV Energy Tracy Clark Power station off Waltham Way East of Reno/Sparks NV.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 9:10 AM

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Posted by Espins1 on Sunday, May 6, 2012 6:02 PM

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Posted by Espins1 on Friday, May 4, 2012 9:42 AM

I can't even imagine wooden box cars in service.  It must have been horrific when a collision or similar type accident occurred with all that wood and limited structural integrity! Black Eye  

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Posted by Espins1 on Sunday, April 29, 2012 8:29 PM

Another from the Sparks NV freight yard

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Posted by Lake on Saturday, April 28, 2012 4:39 PM

This is one of only 3 photos I have of boxcars. On the west side of the Sacramento valley.

South of Winters on the old SP line now used by California Northern and UP.

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Posted by Espins1 on Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:07 AM

Thanks!

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Friday, April 27, 2012 3:43 PM

Great contributions Espins1,keep them coming!!!!!!! Bow

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Posted by Espins1 on Thursday, April 26, 2012 4:45 PM

Here are some boxcars out at the Tracy Clark Power Station east of Reno/Ssarks NV.  This photo was taken October 10, 2011.

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Colorado * Southern #1690 Boxcar

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Posted by K. P. Harrier on Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:43 AM

Paul D. North Jr. (4-5):

Chard Walker hired on with Santa Fe in the latter half of the 1940's, and for about twenty years was the Summit, CA operator and hoisted up train orders to passing trains in Cajon Pass.

For whatever reason, I visited one of the public libraries in San Bernardino about 20-25 years ago, and noticed a big sign hung up announcing a lecture that day.  The lecturer was to be Mr. Walker and he was going to talk about trains and their operations!  Needless to say, I returned and listened to Chard give an informative and trilling lecture!

The passing of Mr. Walker came at an odd time, when BNSF was triple-tracking Cajon Pass, and I believe what is now CP WALKER was originally going to be CP ALRAY, the traditional name of the location, a location named after Santa Fe's Al Ray.  In that sense, Mr. Ray got a raw deal.  However, amongst all the new, uniform type signals ...

... an odd, old, three-track signal bridge was put up.

I personally believe BNSF will try to get trackage rights on UP's Palmdale Cutoff so Cajon trains to and from Tehachapi will save 40 miles.  The BNSF connection could be called ALRAY, so BOTH men could be honored.  But, that is just my opinion.

I'll bet Stourbridge had no idea his thread would evolve into a Cajon Pass CP name discussion ... OK, now we can get back to boxcars ...

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 7:03 PM

CP WALKER is named after Chard Walker, a railfan and long-time Santa Fe operator there from the 1940's - 1970's, if I recall correctly.  He was featured in a couple articles in Trains over the years.  

Perhaps those boxcars are remains from a derailment that have just been left there ?  Maybe someone torches off some of the steel sides from time to time to sell it for scrap metal prices ?  The one looks like the 'vultures' have sure picked that 'carcass' clean . . .  Dinner

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Monday, April 2, 2012 1:15 PM

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Posted by K. P. Harrier on Monday, April 2, 2012 10:35 AM

Cajon Pass (CA) and the Sad Afterlife (of Boxcars)

Part II (of I-II)

The car was partially cannibalized.

A very nearby Intermodal train heads down Cajon Pass on the 2.2% Mains 1 and 2.  Main 3 (of a different alignment) is a steep 3%.

This nearby, throws distance away boxcar met up with an even sadder fate and afterlife.

But, the slum look of the boxcars area is offset by the several famous Cajon Pass rock formations in the vicinity.

So, now you undoubtedly have a different perspective of Cajon Pass ... a perspective made possible by the founder of this tread, Stourbridge Lion.

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Posted by K. P. Harrier on Monday, April 2, 2012 10:29 AM

Cajon Pass (CA) and the Sad Afterlife (of Boxcars)

Part I (of I-II)

To Stourbridge Lion and everyone interested:

After a life of transporting goods for its owner, this boxcar found a sad afterlife in Cajon Pass, in the general area of a control point named WALKER.

The boxcar was a little tipsy.

Barely visible, its old number was 11106.  No railroad identification could be read.

Continued in Part II

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Posted by locomutt on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:06 AM

An old NC & StL box car that had been stored at a local Import/Export company here in louisville for a bunch of years, understand it's now gone to a museum. (SARM I believe.)

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Posted by locomutt on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:57 AM

A couple of pictures from the old C & O's Stevens Yard in Silver Grove, Ky.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, March 17, 2012 3:12 PM

Hey! The LION found some box cars. They are in upstate NY. Anybody know where?

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Posted by CopCarSS on Friday, March 16, 2012 9:01 AM

Posted this in my new thread, but it seemed appropriate here, too:


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Posted by Leo_Ames on Thursday, March 15, 2012 5:11 AM

I've seem a photo of something similar to that last shot. I think it was in Railroad Model Craftsman in the 1990's and was a barn made with two old stock cars. Was a 1 page or so article about strange things out there that you'd guess would only exist on someone's layout.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:10 PM

WOW, that last shot is a setup I've not seen before.  Looks like they both would open up to the inside of the overall structure.

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:58 PM

A few more repurposed boxcars:

 

 

 

 

 

{EDIT: Sorry, the hosting site lost my photos.}

 

 

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Posted by Acela026 on Monday, March 12, 2012 3:13 PM

I'll bite. 

I believe this one's a Wisconsin & Southern

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Posted by tcwright973 on Sunday, March 11, 2012 9:19 PM

This one was on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania located in Strasburg.

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Friday, March 9, 2012 4:38 PM

Do those that were repurposed count?

 

 

 

 

{Edit: Sorry: the hosting site lost my photos.}

 

 

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Friday, March 9, 2012 8:12 AM

Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry

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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:57 PM

Bet Kalmbach likes this thread....

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Posted by CopCarSS on Thursday, March 8, 2012 3:56 PM

A couple Grande Boxcars out at CRRM:


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