Hello everybody viewing this,
Saw an NS train go through heading to Buffalo. It had an orange and black BNSF unit and a warbonet. The first cars however was quite a surprise. I was a few blocks away at the time and I was viewing it from the 10th floor but it looked like an 89 foot highside gondola. It was dark burgundy with large dark yellow lettering. Anybody know what that could be?
Andrew
Wood chip car possibly ? Joe G.
Possibly. Maybe they were Coke Cars?
It looked like old ATSF colours except there was no cross and circle scheme on it. I don’t know of any industries that that train serves, would take any woodchips or coke? Very strange. Hopefully some friends of mine took a picture and I can let you know what it was.
Would love to see a picture,so even I, could guesstimate[:)]
Hello all,
Found a picture of it on the train. Is is NS Exhibition car #27 leading the consist.
I hope I get the link right
The link doesn’t work for me.
Sorry about that; I can’t get it to work either. I guess I will have to give instructions again until I can get my step-father to show me how to hyperlink properly.
If you go to www.railpictures.net
Type in 328 and than scroll down because it’s on the first page. It should be 2 BNSF units going through Hamilton, Ontario on September 4. The photo I.D is 77326
Again sorry about that.
Thanks for the instruction – managed to find it ok —
Looks very much like one of the old PRR stage scenery cars described by Beebe & Clegg (IIRC). Note that the car has a full, enclosed, permanent roof. I’d expect big full-height end doors (like some autorack cars?) so you can get big flats or assembled pieces inside easily. This stuff doesn’t weigh much for its volume, so passenger trucks are probably OK. There will be other people on this forum who can direct you very precisely to what this is.
No, wait – nice conjecture, but not right: look here:
http://www.opelika.org/newsevents/2004/april/norfolksoutherexhibitcar.html
It’s an 85-foot mobile museum of railroading.
Just as a further note: one of the other boards reported in early August that this car would be 'coming to Canada for the first time [August 28th or so]. So I’d expect it to be in your general neck of the woods…
Here’s what I thought was an interesting article about the origin of this car, complete with a link to request a visit from it (!)
http://www.utu.org/DEPTS/PR-DEPT/NEWS/NDigest/1999/May99/ND05-27.HTM
Okay, this link should work: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=77326
Wow, that’s neat, it’s just like the old exhibition cars that used to go across Canada and teach the farmers how to grow and maintain their crops… only much more futuristic.
Doh!; I spelled sighting siting. Just saw that now.
How do you work the spell check here. That’s rediculous when I know how to spell normally; know wonder folk don’t take me serious enough.
At the risk of sounding flip - the spell check on here is manual (gotta look it up in a dictionary). [:D]
I believe you are right; I think this will fix the title anyways.
I’d agree with Overmod about the origin of the car, I does look like a PRR car, although not one I’ve seen before, so a PRR scenery car, possibly with the end doors closed off.
Peter
Peter, I think one of the history pages said it was converted from a Southern Railway passenger car, in 1971.
If I remember correctly, the PRR scenery cars were more like head-end mail cars – like tall boxcars on high-speed trucks. I admit that I misunderstood what an “exhibit car” did; I thought it moved exhibits, rather than having exhibits mounted inside like a rolling museum. Shows what happens when you ASSume…
Guess I was wrong; why won’t this work?..(grumbling)