It is time for our first installment of Odd Rail Operations
On Tuesday I saw an UP freight train with a spine car loaded with containers on it.
Stay tuned for more Odd Rail Operations.
I once saw double stack cars carrying ties eastbound on the UP (at that time SP) main line in West Sacramento CA.
I saw about 30+ UP locos (no cars) at Binney Junction (Marysville CA) on the old WP line crossing the SP line. This was after the UP took over the WP but before the SP merger.
Not familiar with this…do spine cars normally carry truck trailers?
Spine cars can and do carry trailers and containers (except the NTTX cars, they only carry containers. I think the older spine cars only carried trailers). The oddity was that this was on a regular freight train, not an intermodal. Furthermore, it was operating between yards without intermodal terminals.
For several years the SP ran Roadrailers tail end of a “box car” train several times a week in each direction on the “east valley” line north of Sacramento. A box car with a Fred was always on the rear.
Aaah, that explains it. Actually saw something similar in Canada in early July. I figured it was a “straggler” that missed the departure time of the intermodal train.
well you would get a real kick out of the csx Q148 then…auto racks on the head end…trailers next…followed by mixed freight
csx engineer
It is time for our next installment of Odd RaIl Operations.
On Thursday (09/02/04) I saw a mixed freight train pulling out of the yard with an end of train device. Waiting on the mainline behind it was another mixed freight and an intermodal train. The train that pulled out of the yard backed back into it. I thought that this was to allow the other trains to proceed. However, after they left I went back to the yard. The locomotives had disconnected and the EOTD was removed. The cars were still sitting in the yard on Friday evening.
You should see some of the intermodal trains on the CP Galt Subdivision in Ontario.
Sometimes most of the cars on the train are spine cars with containers.
All kind of weird **** goes thorugh berea since they are tearing down the west end of clevelands steel mills…
It’s sad to see them go…
Not really all that odd, but on a local CP freight today I saw a flat car with an old camper, and 2 brand new water delivery trucks… I’ve been wondering where on earth they came from and where they could possibly all be heading.
macguy, I think that one takes the cake!
Let’s see, I think I have a picture somewhere within my web space of a railcar with a bulkhead container with an interesting load…
Ok, here we go, CP 507173 (50-60’ flatcar) with Hapag-Lloyd container, with crated-up load:
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4081832&a=31293073&p=68565104&f=0
Enjoy!
-Mark
Other pics from this page:
http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken/RR2.html
I once saw an Amtrak consist with passengers in it.
Gabe
Good one !!!
Randy
Mark-Maybe that was one of the odd 42’ 7" containers.
Jay
bnsf…outside of Waterman, IL today i saw one of them ‘spine’ cars with a flatbed trailer on it loaded with bobcats… haven’t seen that before…
Any idea what was in that container?
Some sort of transformer, perhaps? [?]
I saw a bulkhead flat carrying canoes, maybe about a dozen of them.
How about the circus train, they ave some strang loadings?
I saw a double stack train that had one 5 car set that had opened versadecks on the bottoms with a regular container above them. The versadecks had no loads on them they were just opened up supporting the conatiners above them? Looked like a centerbeam car with containers on top.
If you’re talking operations… How about USS Cumberland Mine. They have one SD38-2 that had to be brought in, because the RR is not connected to any other railroad. It operates completely captive.
Dave
Los Angeles, CA
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