http://www.mdrails.com/images/pickupcaboose.jpg
And we wonder why people think we’re weird.
The hi-rail wheels are a little scary…
I saw that and said…
“I think that’s a bit much”
But, to each his own…if he’s happy, then more power to him.
Do you think he works for the RR company?
Looks like an old CSX truck to me. Maybe Conrail. Either way they auction those off when they get old.
The vehicle’s lineage might be RR. I’m concerned with the visual implication that maybe he plans to take it on the rails.
At least we know he’s from Maryland (Tags) [alien]
Instead of that ball hitch for a trailer,
he needs one of those fake knuckle couplers!
there was a guy from pennsylvania in fostoria yesterday with a conrail quality paint scheme on his truck and his plate said CSX.
stay safe
joe
Told the wife I wanted a new camper like that. All she did was laugh.
inch
i bet he has a yard full of old railroad crossing lights…signal heads and old cast iron signs that just make all the neighbors cry becouse it makes his house look like crap…and pulls down there propory values…
csx engineer
I love it!!! Does the whistle work?
The wife would kill me…
Thanks for sharing
Paul
OMG!!! [:O][%-)][
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Now THAT’S abit over the top. No wonder everybody thinks I’m kooky when I tell them about my railfanning hobby.
Pat just laughed, hard. She said that if we had one, it would probably pay for itself by being rented out in instances when one would normally use one of those rubber-tired “trolleys”. If the whistles worked, it would also be an attention-getter as a parade float. 'Twould also be a marvelous, loud addition to tailgate parties.
[(-D] It makes the Milwaukee high stand switch with a Fort Dodge and Des Moines target mounted in my front yard almost look sane LOL Larry
When the RR auctions these vehicles off, dont they take the Hi-rail equipt. off and sell it separately? They should ,just to keep guys like this off the RR tracks ! And I agree,he needs that fake coupler hitch from Schrades ! LOL
DITTO, I could not have expressed it any better if I tried!
I’m sure he only uses the hi-rail wheels on the 50 feet or so of track he has laid in his back yard. That’s what I do with my pickup truck caboose
Very interesting photograph and thanks for posting it,
Many years ago–I know it was many years ago because I was still suffering through my first wife at the time–I encountered a similiar vehicle on I-10 east of Tucson only his contraption appeared to be a chassis-mount as opposed to a slide-in and was representative of a heavyweight observation car. I got only a fleeting glimpse because we were headed in opposite directions but it appeared to me that he had side-steps leading up to the observation platform.
More recently I encountered one of these humongous diesel-pusher motorhomes that had the image of a heavyweight pullman–albeit somewhat shorter than 80’ of course–painted and lettered on the side. This was also on I-10 and was exiting the freeway somewhere on the west side of beautiful(?) Phoenix.
While I was still in the Air Force–and that was over thirty years ago–someone told me about a tractor-trailer rig with the trailer configured as a 40ft freight car that used to wander around the Central California area. The guy that told me didn’t know whether the side doors on this rig were operable or not but I would suspect that they were not.
I saw that. It was a pretty sweet looking truck. Granted, I’ve thought of doing something similar with my silver Jeep Grand Cherokee, making it look more like an Amtrak phase III F40PH.
Kevin