Hi,
I’m looking for the person who posted in another thread, which I now cant find, about the railcar that looked like a boxcar with the sides cut out.
I have a few photos of what I think may be your sideless car, loaded and empty.
E-mail me a address that will support photos, and I will send them to you.
If these are the same cars, they carry small, 10x10 stackable containers used for chemicals, they are designed to be unloaded with fork lifts.
UP spots them in the Goodyear Pasadena refinery.
Stay Frosty,
Ed
that was me… send them to mikeygaw@myrealbox.com
On their way!
Ed
ed, try download again msn they didn’t come through
Ed, how about a number?
Now that I have your description, I’m betting they’re OTDX 6000-series cars. And, yes, they were also built that way.
Hey this thread is great! I have seen several of the OTDX cars and didn’t have a clue as to what they were.
Here is a link that I found, now that I know what they are called:
http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/other_cars/otdx_cars/
Thanks guys![:)]
Carl, Doug and Mike,
Thats the cars I took photos of, it and quite a few other of like kind are in UPs Basin Yard.
I like the shot of the empty, it shows the internal bracing.
Mike, I resentthem this morning, wonder why they didnt go through?
They open with windows picture and fax viewer.
Ed
That figures. [:D] That Mikey, he is always causing trouble. [:D] And he is soooo mean to his cats. [}:)]
Mookie, you really should have a talk with him. [:p]
(Mikey knows I am just kidding.) [:D] [}:)] [:p] [;)] [:)]
Wassamatter U? Cat’s can’t talk… [}:)]
Mook
More: actually, the “chemicals” these cars carry are carbon black, for use in the tire-making process. Special covered hoppers are the most efficient way of transporting this stuff and keeping it pure, but there are a few places that like to get their stuff this way.
(Mook, when my daughter called me yesterday, my grandcats were doing plenty of “talking” in the background!)
Makes sense, the tops of the containers are shrink wraped.
But, every once in a while, we get a train of carbon black,
in three bay covered hoppers, painted black.
Black of course, to the mask the stuff that gets on the sides and top when loaded.
This crap sticks to everything, and makes the stuff in you old laser printer toner cartridge look course.
We drag them out to Manchester Yard, and UP picks them up and spots Goodyear with them.
Stay Frosty,
Ed
How about no tops on the boxcar?
L&N used these to carry coke; recall seeing them in Nashville.
RE carbon black cars: used to see them on the C&O fairly often; cars belonged to Cabot Company - nassssty stuff!
work safe
im pretty sure there it… ed, send the shot of the empty to mikeygaw@hotmail.com
that other address seems to like being a pain where the sun don’t shine
oh, and Mikey like kitties… they keep the mice away!
C’mon… Cats can talk. Diamond says “No” quite well. She hates saying “yeah” even when it’s what she wants. (You want down? No. wriggles more You want down? No. wriggles more you want down? Say yeah. No… finally she says “yeah”)
got em… what I saw is a lot like that, except when empty, there are X’s built into the empty space… an attachment for running empty long distance to keep people/objects out maybe?
Never seen them in any other configuration empty other than how the first photo shows.
They do have supports, cross ways, to support the roof.
Ed
UP has at least a couple of those in woodchip service.
That’s a neat looking car!I’ve never seen one like that.PS .I love kitties too![8D]
The C&O, in the late 1960s, took the roofs and doors off some box cars (replaced the doors with wooden slats), and used them for coke (a few) and pulpwood (quite a few) service.
Now, as for those UP cars with doors and no roofs that you’re seeing, they aren’t old box cars. They also were built the way you see 'em, as gondolas for woodchip service. The doors are for unloading at places that don’t have dumpers (the usual way to unload a woodchip gon is through an end door, by tilting the car in a special dumper). These cars were built around 1970, maybe a little earlier.