My nephew saw a flatcar in the BNSF yard in Denver that had as he put it 3 treasure chests loaded on it. Any idea what these containers would be carrying?
First chest–The legendary and ‘buried in a barn’ perpetual motion machine.
Second chest–The formulae for cold fusion
Third Chest-- What they’re looking for in Oak Island. Futile because here it is.
If the containers look anything like those pictured below - it is treasure in route to be buried.
Trash going to a landfill.
They were about that long but had an arched top.
There are a number of companies involved in ‘trash transportation’. Seems like each have their own design of containers.
Now you know where Jimmy Hoffa is. On the train to Trumps Palm Beach Resort, so he can get a nice sun tan.
the barn “containers” are probably the military and civilian aircraft fuselage bodies going between Wichita and Seattle (Boeing) … a slight bit larger than a sea-can.
Common sight around here. (along with big stuff like 737 bodies, wings and windmill blades) … The stuff tends to sit in clear view of the yard tower if it is not moving for security reasons and to keep them away from switching.
If they were smaller containers, hopefully they do not say “EPIC” on the sides.
Small, curved top, treasure chests? That doesn’t sound like containers to me, at all. I bet they were covered coil steel flatcars.
They were not coil cars. I know what they look like. These were small, less than 20’ containers with arched tops. I tried posting a picture but it wouldn’t post.
Here is a link to one of the Boeing Rail Cars: These cars are used to protect aircraft tail surface element and other potentially damagable part in transit. They open like a ‘clam-shell’ and are loaded and unloaded with overhead cranes,
Then there is this other style of car: linked @
http://faculty.tamuc.edu/jdavis/railroad/image/jj079-11-Boeing.jpg
The 737 models of aircraft are completed at Spirit Aviation Systems here in Wichita; partially completed fuselages, are loaded onto specially equipped flat cars[ generally, have a ‘guard’ rial structure on the cockpit end, and a spacer flatcar on the tail end, some of those cars will have a compartment on that end to hold various parts for the aircraft.
The 737 [and its variants, to include the Navy’s Poseiden [P-8 & 8A]; since about 1965 have made their ‘first flights’ from Wichita to Renton Wa. on a train.
Some of the Boeing Rail Fleet was also used to transport the 747
Are their any tracks to the plant looking at google maps can’t find any.
Well, if they looked like treasure chests, maybe they were…treasure?
After all, somone just turned in a $1.5 billion lottery ticket. Maybe they took it in cash?
- First his nephew saw them and just described them and then he’s got pictures but can’t post them. Sounds strange…
Is it just this picture that is a problem? Have you seen this post in the Model Railroader forum?
Since you want to get technical Backshop.
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My nephew is 4 years old.
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My sister texted me a crappy cell phone picture of it.
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Trains Forum requires you to post pics somewhere else then on to here.
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I’m not stupid, I know what the Boeing Cars and Coil Cars look like. These were different.
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People like you are why I usually stay off these forums and railfan alone.
For #3 I use …
I suggest that if you want the car identified, and you haven’t already found it on a long list of Google searches, than you need to post a picture.
It’s not just you. ALL of us that post pictures in this forum, and in the MR forums follow the same rules and procedures for posting pictures.
Now that we are all interested, please go post a picture! I’d love to see what your nephew saw.
Mike.
They finally lost me this season. Too much meaningless filler, not enough substance. I’ll wait for the Reader’s Digest condensed version to come out