The other day I was driving along and noticed a group of cars sitting on a siding. Several older Railbox type boxcars had roofs that looked like someone had over-inflated the car with air. The roofs were bulging up irregularly at least 8 to 12 inches in places. Over the past few days I started to notices it on more cars…all older, all of the Railbox style 50 footers. What gives? Are overzealous forklift drivers beating them up (literally!)? Or does heat build up in them cause the roofs to pop up? The roofs don’t really look like something hit them, more like they were pushed up from below.
Did you notice if they had shackles and or manacles inside ?
Randy
UH, If they had those inside;wouldn’t they be ‘caved in’,not raised up?[}:)][:D]
Warm Beer and a rough ride!
Assuming they are hanging political dissidents by meathooks…yes .
Randy
The doors were closed, so the screaming was pretty hard to hear at first. It was marked Plate PP which I believe is Politcial Prisoner …and with the RNC going on and all those demonstrators arrested who knows…I thought the Pullman Standard cars had manacles and the Gunderson cars had shackles.
You would hear belching… not screaming.
Does any of the ammunition industries take boxcars for the transport of their finnished products?
Those damn Canadian mice got at the Molsons again…LOL
LC
The roofs are still there…along with downtown San Diego.
I’ve noticed this bulging on these cars as well–perhaps they were purposely shoved up some to increase capacity??? The ones I noticed were being loaded with bales of scrap paper. Anyone know for sure?
Dan has the answer…the forklift driver wasn’t paying attention…
Note the doors have both door height and width clearances marked, and the inside height clearance of the boxcar noted right on the door…
Weirdest one I have seen so far not only had the forklift bulge, but, for reasons unknown, a pile of dirt on top of the bump, with grass growing in it…
Ed[:D]
I not talking about howitzer stuff. Good god man, I hope they would use box cars like that. I was thinking about bullets or something like that for hunting rifles and handguns.
An ammo boxcar would be red and have a large bulls eye painted on the side and would explode into 5 or 6 pieces when hit by a missile launched from a rocket fireing flatcar[;)]!
Hope no middle easterners are looking at this forum…(the ones that want to get us, not the friendly muslim).
Whut the? Ya mean that industries don’t take care of revenue cars like they were their own?[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]
I have seen the roof bulges in lots of boxcars; but I seem to notice it more on SP cars.
Oh, no, they always treat the equipment like gold…FOFLMAO…
“Honest, that ladder was all torn up when we got it. No, nevermid that paiint transfer on our front end loader…”
“We never use it to move the cars…”
LC
Doesn’t ammunition trains have a caboose on it for security crews? I would hate to think what would happen if that thing was hijacked.
…and then they complain the loudest to the car distributor / mobile agent/ logistics guy that they get such crappy pool cars to serve them![}:)][}:)][}:] [;)][;)][;)]