It looks like an elongated tank car with heavy reinforcing bands, a railinged walkway on top and most noticable some sort of windowed cabin at one end. What is it and what commodity does it transport?
At a guess I’d say it sounds like part of a weedkiller train - a crew member would ride in the cabin and control the sprayers from there. This is just a guess though!
It may be part of a firefighting train. Men with hoses would use the walkways. Logging railroads would haved used something like this.
There have been some tank cars for transporting gases with a valve manifold on one end that was enclosed in a housing.
Can’t really say without a poicture or a car number.
Dave H.
It almost sounds like your describing one of Southern Pacific’s Cab-forward locomotives[:D]
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/cabforward/sp4150.jpg
HD
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Originally posted by HoosierDaddy
It almost sounds like your describing one of Southern Pacific’s Cab-forward locomotives[:D]
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/cabforward/sp4150.jpg
HD
[You know I think you’re right, I saw four of these critters in a mixed BNSF freight west of Chicago and I could’ve thought of it myself that 4 cab forwards is a normal sight in any consist!
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It is unlikely that you saw four of them in a BNSF freight train–there is only one left in the world (and has been for at least forty years,) it sits at the California State Railroad Museum, and BNSF has only been “BNSF” for a few years (before that it was AT&SF and BN.) So what you saw was almost certainly NOT a string of four cab-forward steam locomotives in a BNSF consist…
a photo would help A LOT.
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Originally posted by Jetrock
It is unlikely that you saw four of them in a BNSF freight train–there is only one left in the world (and has been for at least forty years,) it sits at the California State Railroad Museum, and BNSF has only been “BNSF” for a few years (before that it was AT&SF and BN.) So what you saw was almost certainly NOT a string of four cab-forward steam locomotives in a BNSF consist…
a photo would help A LOT.
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I now realize I should’ve put a smiley at the end of my obvious tongue-in-cheek reaction to HD. I know there’s only one Cab-forward left, I’ve seen it myseld a couple of years back when I visited the Sacramento museum.