Thanks for the information. [:o)][:p][:)]
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Originally posted by edblysard
They are RRMX 1000 series cars.
Dave H.
Robertson Ready Mix, in So Cal?
Ed
40 easy rollers.
Dave H.
Try XXXI 1036[:D][:)]
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I looked up the train symbol using the unit number,and it shows to be a rock train.
Thanks for the reporting mark, Dave! It belongs to RRM Properties, Ltd. Not conclusive, but you’re probably right, Ed, about Robertson Redi-Mix.
The cars aren’t shown in my ORERs, but UMLER shows that there are 44 of these, RRMX numbers 1001-1044. Overall length is 42 feet–which means that if they were coal gons, they were shortened in overall length by about 11 feet (not an impossible thing–I’ve recently seen some Ortner hoppers that appear to have been shortened for gravel service by Herzog). They’re hoppers now (again, Herzog has rebuilt solid-bottom coal gons into high-speed ballast hoppers).
The cars first showed up (apparently) in 2002, at least as RRMX cars (that’s the date of the AEI tags–they could have had a prior identity, and I’m working on that).
I’ll hopefully get more information on these cars.
Oh, yes–their commodity: gravel (big surprise!).
My son says he has the ability to blow up the pix so I am bringing him the CD this weekend & maybe he can see the reporting marks once it is blown up. I may also mention that this train had some sought of priority to it as they ran it around the double stack you see sitting there in another one of the photos. Above where the engine is heading there is a crossover from the north track which he was on to the south track which the doublestack was on. He also had real good pace to him even though he was taking the crossover. [:o)][:p][:)]
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Originally posted by CShaveRR
Nice work guys. If the trolls and railroad bashers that frequent this place had a grasp of the depth of railroad knowledge among the many of forum members, we would be buried with requests to verify the latest conspiracy theories.
At the moment , I am too lazy to check this out, but I seem to recall pictures of cars of a similar appearance in a recent Trains article about CSX operations in Florida where the pictured cars were used to haul phosphate rock. I am not suggesting that the cars the subject of this topic are hauling anything other than gravel, but the Trains article might offer a clue to the builder and subsequent modifications, if any of these RRMX cars.
Jay
Thanks, Jay.
The ribs do bear a slight resemblance to one of those phosphate cars in the illustration (June 2005, page 55), but I have a feeling that the ends are quite different.
I’d like to be able to bask in the “knowledgeable railroader” limelight, but it isn’t always what you know–you have to know how to find things out. Some people have knowledge about individual railroads and about diesel locomotives that I can only envy, because they know how to find it in some vast storehouse of information. If you were to look in my basement, you’d find a similar storehouse, but not the organization to put it to the best use. I do what I can.
I happen to be a freight car freak, so the sight of these cars was exciting. I’ve never seen anything like that around here. But I can dig out the information (a.k.a. “I know this guy”), I hope, so I might be able to provide more on these cars than I already have, if they have a prior identity with which I’m more familiar. (The “feeler” is still out, by the way, soon to be joined by another one.)
I can’t bask myself, but I do have access to UPRR computer being an employee and all!
One report has come in, saying that these cars are definitely shortened Coalveyors. The build date on one of the cars was 6/79; all of them show in UP’s computer system as having a weigh date of 8/2002 (same as the AEI tag date; safe to assume that they were rebuilt specifically for this service).
Still am hoping to receive a prior identity for one of these cars. Definitely an interesting use for an obsolete steel coal gon!
The marks on the car in the pix are RRMX 1039. When you blow up the pix as my son did you can clearly read the letters & numbers on the car. [:o)][:p][:)]
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Originally posted by CShaveRR
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