Here's a Fisrt for Me

Trains Magazine General Discussion
1

I was working at the Hub City Railroad Museum today when this odd train went by:

In 12 years of railfanning, I;ve never seen anything like this carried on a train.

2

A guess is pre-cast concrete prison cells - or dorm rooms, etc. The triangle-shaped cut-outs would be similar to those for the utility ‘chases’ of Tindall Corp.'s precast units, which I believe has several plants in your region - see:

http://www.tindallcorrections.com/module.html

http://www.tindallcorrections.com/module_assets/Corrections_Brochure.pdf

http://www.tindallcorp.com/index.html

  • Paul North.
3

What are they? I don’t think I’d want to have to share the road with a truck carrying one of these.

4

I am confident that I saw something similar on a UP last summer. I guess there is a fisrt time for everything.This one time I accidentally the entire thing.

5

Just like USPS…If it fits, it ships… (at least those bulkhead flats stayed out of storage for a while)

6

What you can’t see on the rear of the train is all of the white boxcars w/shackles.

[:-,]