No sides in the boxcar

[edblysard]

Hi,
I'm looking for the person who posted in another thread, which I now cant find, about the railcar that looked like a boxcar with the sides cut out.
I have a few photos of what I think may be your sideless car, loaded and empty.
E-mail me a address that will support photos, and I will send them to you.
If these are the same cars, they carry small, 10x10 stackable containers used for chemicals, they are designed to be unloaded with fork lifts.
UP spots them in the Goodyear Pasadena refinery.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

[Mikeygaw]

that was me... send them to [e-mail]

[edblysard]

On their way!
Ed

[Mikeygaw]

ed, try download again msn they didn't come through

[CShaveRR]

Ed, how about a number?

Now that I have your description, I'm betting they're OTDX 6000-series cars. And, yes, they were also built that way.

[Dough]

Hey this thread is great! I have seen several of the OTDX cars and didn't have a clue as to what they were.

Here is a link that I found, now that I know what they are called:

http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/other_cars/otdx_cars/

Thanks guys![:)]

[edblysard]

Carl, Doug and Mike,
Thats the cars I took photos of, it and quite a few other of like kind are in UPs Basin Yard.
I like the shot of the empty, it shows the internal bracing.
Mike, I resentthem this morning, wonder why they didnt go through?
They open with windows picture and fax viewer.
Ed

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mikeygaw

that was me...

That figures. [:D] That Mikey, he is always causing trouble. [:D] And he is soooo mean to his cats. [}:)]

Mookie, you really should have a talk with him. [:p]

(Mikey knows I am just kidding.) [:D] [}:)] [:p] [;)] [:)]

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mikeygaw

that was me...

That figures. [:D] That Mikey, he is always causing trouble. [:D] And he is soooo mean to his cats. [}:)]

Mookie, you really should have a talk with him. [:p]

(Mikey knows I am just kidding.) [:D] [}:)] [:p] [;)] [:)]

Wassamatter U? Cat's can't talk.... [}:)]

Mook

[CShaveRR]

More: actually, the "chemicals" these cars carry are carbon black, for use in the tire-making process. Special covered hoppers are the most efficient way of transporting this stuff and keeping it pure, but there are a few places that like to get their stuff this way.

(Mook, when my daughter called me yesterday, my grandcats were doing plenty of "talking" in the background!)

[edblysard]

Makes sense, the tops of the containers are shrink wraped.
But, every once in a while, we get a train of carbon black,
in three bay covered hoppers, painted black.
Black of course, to the mask the stuff that gets on the sides and top when loaded.
This crap sticks to everything, and makes the stuff in you old laser printer toner cartridge look course.
We drag them out to Manchester Yard, and UP picks them up and spots Goodyear with them.
Stay Frosty,
Ed

[coalminer3]

How about no tops on the boxcar?

L&N used these to carry coke; recall seeing them in Nashville.

RE carbon black cars: used to see them on the C&O fairly often; cars belonged to Cabot Company - nassssty stuff!

work safe

[Mikeygaw]

im pretty sure there it... ed, send the shot of the empty to [e-mail]
that other address seems to like being a pain where the sun don't shine

[Mikeygaw]

oh, and Mikey like kitties... they keep the mice away!

[Puckdropper]

C'mon... Cats can talk. Diamond says "No" quite well. She hates saying "yeah" even when it's what she wants. (You want down? No. *wriggles more* You want down? No. *wriggles more* you want down? Say yeah. No... finally she says "yeah")

[Mikeygaw]

got em... what I saw is a lot like that, except when empty, there are X's built into the empty space... an attachment for running empty long distance to keep people/objects out maybe?

[edblysard]

Never seen them in any other configuration empty other than how the first photo shows.
They do have supports, cross ways, to support the roof.

Ed

[corwinda]

QUOTE: Originally posted by coalminer3

How about no tops on the boxcar?

UP has at least a couple of those in woodchip service.

[espeefoamer]

That's a neat looking car!I've never seen one like that.PS .I love kitties too![8D]

[CShaveRR]

The C&O, in the late 1960s, took the roofs and doors off some box cars (replaced the doors with wooden slats), and used them for coke (a few) and pulpwood (quite a few) service.

Now, as for those UP cars with doors and no roofs that you're seeing, they aren't old box cars. They also were built the way you see 'em, as gondolas for woodchip service. The doors are for unloading at places that don't have dumpers (the usual way to unload a woodchip gon is through an end door, by tilting the car in a special dumper). These cars were built around 1970, maybe a little earlier.

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR

More: actually, the "chemicals" these cars carry are carbon black, for use in the tire-making process. Special covered hoppers are the most efficient way of transporting this stuff and keeping it pure, but there are a few places that like to get their stuff this way.

(Mook, when my daughter called me yesterday, my grandcats were doing plenty of "talking" in the background!)

Probably gossiping!

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mikeygaw

oh, and Mikey like kitties... they keep the mice away!

ICK! When you can have Iams?

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Puckdropper

C'mon... Cats can talk. Diamond says "No" quite well. She hates saying "yeah" even when it's what she wants. (You want down? No. *wriggles more* You want down? No. *wriggles more* you want down? Say yeah. No... finally she says "yeah")

Who is spreading all this nonsense! We must stop this rumor! Humans must never find out what we do while they aren't around! (cell phones, letters, tv, shopping channel) Hmm - wife must have ordered that new kitty bed......

Mookie

[jchnhtfd]

Of course cats can talk. You should hear my A&B (two huge black cats, brother and sister)!

[CShaveRR]

My grandcats love telephones! Especially the speed-dial buttons (daughter found that out the hard way).

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR

My grandcats love telephones! Especially the speed-dial buttons (daughter found that out the hard way).

911 or a big long distance bill?

[CShaveRR]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR

My grandcats love telephones! Especially the speed-dial buttons (daughter found that out the hard way).

911 or a big long distance bill?

Actually, neither (I'm remembering more about the incident now...): they called us! My wife got silence on the phone, but caller ID knew whose phone it was, and daughter later confirmed.

[dharmon]

Last year when I was once again uprooting my family from someplace they become accustomed to...it's a ritual we do ever one to three years......We were driving across country my wife, daughter and dog in one vehicle and my son, the other dog.....and myself, in the other. I believe we were in Arizona when my mother called me on my cell phone asked if we were okay. I asked why and she said that my wife had called her from her cell phone and didn't say anything, all she heard was noise in the background. The line was still open so she had to use her cell phone to call me. I said she was fine and I thought right behind me. So I called my wife on the little FRS radio and asked what was up. The dog had laid down on the cell phone causing it to speed dial my mother's house and she had been listening to his belly for about 26 minutes.

[espeefoamer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by coalminer3

How about no tops on the boxcar?

L&N used these to carry coke; recall seeing them in Nashville.

RE carbon black cars: used to see them on the C&O fairly often; cars belonged to Cabot Company - nassssty stuff!

work safe

Hmmm.Carbon black on the C&O.Chessie hauls the chemicals.The ultimate cat story![:D]

[dharmon]

And then there was the time that my Aunt went across the street to talk with the neighbor. My cousins were in the house by themselves....this of course was back when you could do that without being tossed in jail........anyway, one cousin starts chasing around the youngest, he was probably about 4 or 5.......he picks up the phone and dials o and says "help she's beating me up" and then hangs up the phone.....my less than amused Aunt watched from across the street as the police, who had traced the call, arrived at the house to find out what was going on. Needless to say the policeman and my cousins had a little sitdown........although he did admit at least he knew what to do if he was in trouble......[:)]