Muncie: 40-foot box car coming!

Trains Magazine General Discussion
1

Muncie,

I am looking out my office window right now 4:25 p.m. There is a Manifest train still going by. I did not get to see the power on the point, but the end car is a while refrigorator car. It is a fairly long train.

About half way in the train, there is a 40 foot box car. It is very light baby blue that is fadded to virtually white.

I can’t tell you how excited I am am about this and need to find a way to get a picture. This is like seeing something that you thought was extinct. I didn’t think 40’ box cars were still around.

Too cool!

Gabe

P.S. I don’t think this is a yard transfer job, but I hope it isn’t heading to Cinci instead of Muncie.

2

…Sorry Gabe, we were over near those tracks several times today and finally arrived home about an hour ago. Had my camera with me too, so could have taken a pic if I’d have known and the time would have worked out.

But was up in the parking lot near the Muncie Mall at 11 o’clock this morning waiting as the wife was in a store and got to see the south bound Triple Crown pass thru…2 six axle engines on the head end and I counted 125 trailers of the consist makeup…He was really taking it easy, just easing it down thru there. That’s about a mile and a half {roughly}, to pass the Wisor St. Depot…{now the Trail Head}, and cross over Broadway {now M.L. King Blv.}, and head up and around the big sweeping curve that Triple Crown have experienced two pull offs…

3

If it’s not to much of a bother, could you send a few our way?[:)]

4

SP had a few hundred 40’ boxcars built in the mid to late 1970s to haul copper. The January 2008 ORER lists 221 SP 40’ boxcars, and 2 Golden West Service 40’ boxcars.

I have also seen a 40’ MKT boxcar in a work train.

5

…Gabe…did you see our comments from last Friday.

6

csx sent a few boxcars down the toledo sub saturday for scrapping.some were waffle boxcars and some were autoparts boxcars too.

stay safe

joe

7

40 footers have become real rare. l saw one by itself mixed into a double stack train, it looked very small. This is already 5 years ago. It looked like a plain CPR car but maybe it was a repeater car otherwise why else was it there? unless it was a hot OCS load or something.

8

Yes, thanks. Too bad, I didn’t think to use my cell phone camera, although I doubt it would have been that clear from so far away.

Gabe

9

Help me out here, for years living in a railway town I read the writing on the sides of boxcars, it gave the dimensions of the car, length, height, il, width, etc, for the rest of my life I always knew how long 40 feet was, (I forget the height:12 feet???correct me). NOW, today what is the standard length of most boxcars, I know everything varies, but most seem of the same length, what is it? thanks.