The Internet: a vast wasteland of railroad information?

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

CShaveRR

[snipped - PDN} . . . About ten years or so, the Union Pacific got rid of all of its remaining wheelset cars.  Check out the AOK 6300, 6400, and 6500 series: they're ex-UP, ex-MP, and ex-SP.

Go to: http://www.railcarphotos.com/Search.php 

Insert "AOK" into the "Reporting Mark . . ." box, and hit the "[Search]" button.  

You should get a page with a list of about 25 thumbnail photos.  From about the 10th to 18th one down are wheel cars, AOK 6307 - AOK 6623, all "Type: MOW - Flatcar, Wheels".

Note that, and/ or the several "AAR [car] Types" that are listed - F126, F226, F212, F223, F211, F111 (go figure why so many different ones ?)

Now go back to the Main Search page, and input that car type - "MOW - Flatcar, Wheels" - under "Car Type" (using the drop-down menu), and hit the "[Search]" button again.  You should get 82 photos over 4 pages from a variety of railroads (lot of BN, etc.).  You should be able to take it from there, at least on that website.  

- Paul North. 

P.S. (Thurs. 02 Oct. 6:45 AM EDT): WSOR 251 (many detail photos posted above as NREX 0251 by Mike / WSOR 3801) is included/ shown on the last one on the 4th page, in a 1996 photo. - PDN.  

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

Doh !

Go to the "Magazine Index" here - wasn't easy to find before the recent software change, now moderately difficult (): http://trc.trains.com/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?view=SearchResults 

Choose "Advanced Search": http://trc.trains.com/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?view=SearchResults&advanced=true 

Insert "wheelcar" (no space) and click on the "Search" button -

You should get a list of 11 references/ links from "All Magazines" over 82 years, some of which look pretty good:

http://trc.trains.com/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?view=SearchResults&q=wheelcar&startYear=1932&endYear=2014&magazineId=0&advanced=true 

And/ or, become a real good friend of Mike/ wanswheel here, who is just awesome at this kind of thing !

- Paul North. 

[WSOR 3801]

Paul_D_North_Jr

 

 

P.S. (Thurs. 02 Oct. 6:45 AM EDT): WSOR 251 (many detail photos posted above as NREX 0251 by Mike / WSOR 3801) is included/ shown on the last one on the 4th page, in a 1996 photo. - PDN.  

 

Same car.  At the time, WSOR and Northern Rail Car were under common ownership.  The racking for the wheels might have been applied at NRC, or at WSOR Horicon, I'll have to ask some of the old heads.  

NRC had a wheel shop in Milwaukee, which later went to National Railway Equipment after NRC folded, and still makes/assembles wheelsets.  The cars stayed with the facility, so they got remarked NREX.