Earlier this week, I saw the local switcher pulling a single depressed flatcar carrying this huge transformer-like contraption. A first for me.
What is the most bizarre or unusual load you’ve come across?
Trash, yep, trash! Trash from N.Y. in dumpsters on spine cars destined for a dump in Texas or New Mexico.
Ken
They had a reactor go from michigan to south carolina on Csx a few weeks ago.
stay safe
Joe
I hauled a steam locomotive on flat car to its final resting place. The tender was brought in by truck later. One odd load I remember was a brand-new starting gate, as used to start horse races, loaded on a TTX flat.
Windmill train, the huge GE wind mills you see in their comerical, blades well over 85’, with the nacels on spacer cars between the blades.
Ed
Damn Yankees [:p]
The South will rise again [:)][:D][8D][:p][;)]
bowling green picked up a few of those windmills too
stay safe
joe
I have seen many strange things, but nothing as strange as a train consist
on top of flatcars being towed by a train. Actually I think it was a promotional thing.
The (then new) ACELA set was being transported to it’s destination through Vermont.
When I was a teenager about 20 years ago a local houseboat builder got a contract to build a couple hundred houseboats. All of them were shipped out at the over two days or so on a couple of “unit” trains. The sight made for a couple of very unique looking trains especially because the town where I lived was on a branchline. Unfortunately, it seems it was a one time deal.
i was going through the paperwork on my train one day and we had 12 loaded boxcars of condoms and 3 boxcars of tampons all going to montreal
mamma said trains was like a box of chocolates you never know what your going to haul![:)]
stay safe
Joe
I don’t know how I’m going to describe this but his summer I saw a very short, maybe 20 feet, all white car that wasn’t exactly a flat car. It was flat but had slightly sloped roof line, angeled down side to side, and in the middle was a box the width of the car but not very long.
Aw, this is too hard to describe. I’ll have to figure out how to draw a picture. Wish I had my camera with me.
Ironhorseman, maybe it was a scale test car. Don’t know, just guessing.
Ken
We see a whole train of maybe 10-15 cars go thru here every so often that sounds just like that. Odd shaped boxes on flat cars. I have seen disassembled airplanes go through on flat cars and we have acouple of nuclear power plants not too far away - so always figured it was something like that it those “little boxes”.
Mookie
Space shuttle heading east out of the desert (Edwards AFB) by rail…and NOT disassembled.
It didn’t perhaps having a flashing blue light on it???
Nope! Had a yellow thingie and a hangy down!
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Moo (I can’t even sign my real name to that one!)
WHOO HOOO[:D][}:)][;)]
I once saw several flatcars carrying what I believe to be a small oil drilling rig and associated equipment.
Umm, this is getting intrusting, or maybe out of hand.
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