Spotted this in Commerce CA and it seemed to me more like something you would model (out of convience - a place to put some extra track panels) than something you would ever see in reality.
http://freericks.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1003353
And a close up of one car.
Good photos
I wonder what the yellow tape is for on the side of the gondola
That’s reflective safety tape so that half blind yahoos out speeding around at night can see that there’s something at the railroad crossing.
Hey, Bubba!! Cop Tape! Watch me bust it!! Assuming, that is, that they’re sober enough to see it.
IIRC, panelized rail sections were one of the uses I suggested for unwanted brass sectional track.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Famous last words of a redneck- “hold my beer and watch this!”
Those are new turnouts – appear to be #15s (good for 30 mph). This is the common way of shipping them. If they are to be installed in a main track that’s in service, they are assembled on “turnout pads” adjacent to where they will go, welded up, then slid into place with two or three rubber-tired loaders or speed-swings.
RWM
Are those turnouts Peco or Atlas? Since they’re not ballasted, can’t be EZ track…[(-D]
Yeah, using ballasted turnouts in gondolas might lesson the effect! [:D]
I remember occasionally seeing cars loaded with track sections passing by on the Conrail tracks in Sandusky Ohio, during the 80s & 90s…including whole diamonds. I always assumed they were for quick temporary repair of track tore up by derailments, until I saw one of the diamonds unloaded at the site where the N&W tracks to the coal docks crossed Conrail, and a few days later saw the old one swapped out and laying by the tracks…just a matter of quick and easy maintenance, I guess.
I can almost make out “Atlas” “Made in China” on the backs of the ties.[:D]