I was kinda wondering what are some of the weirdest car loads on a train anyone has ever seen like a whole train carrying nothing but farm equipment or a train all heavy equipment now I know those are not tottaly wired but aleast they got to be some what wired wouldn’t you think well if anyone has any pictures of wired trains pass them on okay. Or if you have seen anything really wired let me know [:D][:D]
In 1977 I saw a pair of flatcars carrying an Orton wrecking crane for overseas export.
Last year I saw a BNSF manifest train with a flatbed hauling a vet emergency van on it.
Narrow gauge Korean GM12 locomotives on flat cars headed for Argentina.
A huge cat cracker on a Schnabel car, see link…
http://165.91.110.43/trains/NewBNSF/PTRA.htm
With a lone brand new BNSF locomotive on the head end on it’s first revenue move.
GE/Siemens Windmills headed for California, Pennsylvania and Indiana…with blades longer than an 89’ flat car…
Ed
5-unit double stack container cars carrying ties
csx taking a molten steel car to chicago.a westinghouse heavy load car going back to chicago for another load.
stay safe
Joe
My wife and I were on vacation in Colorado in the early 80’s. We were eating a meal in a restaurant in Granby, CO, that was across the road from the Rio Grande. While we were there, two trains went by of all flats with military equipment on them, mostly artillery and support vehicles (at least that’s what it looked like to me). The waitress commented that another train just like these went through a couple of hours earlier.
DOD trains @ Daggett heading west with tanks/APC & various other types of equipment used for war. It call those trains your tax dollars @ work[:o)][:p][:)]
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One time I saw a BNSF train with a couple backhoes in hopper cars.
That would be part of a MoW train.They put those up on the hopper cars or gondols so they can pick the ties out of the cars and set them on the ground.
…The TRAIN OF TOMORROW back in about 1947 with 4 or 5 brand new and new in concept…dome cars. It was traveling on the S&C {B&O at the time}, in Pennsylvania from Johnstown to Rockwood and we were let out of school to walk about a qtr. mi. to see it…Don’t know how school officials knew it was coming. That line was an all coal hauler at the time so this train was REALLY special for {anyone}, to see…Something new right after “the war”…It was exciting…Must have been as I still remember it vividly.
A bulkhead flat carrying canoos and kiyaks.
Internaly at a scrap yard gons carrying flattened autos cross wise and loaded high, it looked like it could tip.
A flat car with one realy giant truck tire.
A flat car with a NdeM G12 in Kirkwood, Missouri
A boeing 767 aircraft in Oklahoma City
a wrecked AC4400CW in three parts on a intermodal car in Jefferson City, Missouri. (YAY! Thats how a GE SHOULD be)
A Flat car carrying a wheeless GATX tanker heading to Toronto Mac Millan Yard
A Flat car carrying a crane truck
Centerbeam flat carrying panel track.
A CSX train Friday night (9/9) carrying flats and gons of small MOW equipment. Must have been every speeder and 4 wheel crane they had in the state. Headed east from Lawrenceville, GA (east of Atlanta).
In the past two days we moved three flatcar-loads of rubber-tired “trolley cars”. Chicago’s loss (or replacement) is Portland’s gain!
GREAT MINDS THINK A LIKE!!! [:D][:D][:D][;)]
When I was a kid, on the EJ&E I use to see some of these cone shaped loads on flats, that said NASA on them. Never did figure out what those were.
Dave
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How about this!!!
I took this on Tehachapi pass in the summer of 1995. Sorry for the quality of the photo, but when something like this rolls by you shoot it! I think it might be a partially completed float going to Pasadena? Anybody else have any guesses.
Dan
I think we have our winner!
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