What are some weirdest car loads has anyone ever seen

Snow. After a major storm with nowhere to put it northern RR’s dispatch Gons, hoppers and anything else filled with snow somewhere south so it can melt.

it looks like the ceo of bnsf

When I was working the third trick opr job at Saugus on the SP a H’wood production co. was filming the movie version of the musical Paint Your Wagon (would you believe Clint Eastwood in a musical?) in Central Oregon,
. They rented a bunch of wagons from a prop co. and had these horse drawn wagons (minus the horses) loaded onto 85’ pig flats. It was doubly noteworthy for me because the picture of it I took was the only pic I ever managed to get published by Trains Magazine.

Not only was Clint in that movie, but Lee Marvin also!! What a way to ruin a musical. Great movie though, if you can get by the singing.

Snow! When major storms hit the northern railroads load up gons and hoppers and ship them south to melt.

When they were building a lift bridge downtown the steel girders for the span came in pieces on flatcars and were then placed on a barge for final transport upriver to the construction site. Also the local crane co. (Manitowoc) ships giant cranes by rail sometimes with the cab on one flatcar and the pieces of the lattice boom on other flatcars.

I didn’t see this, but my in-laws did. After the first Gulf War, a trainload of flatcars carrying blasted and burned Iraqi military equipment.

Well i saw yesterday a some coal cars hauling new wood ties. Very wierd.

Cool, I saw a Maintenance-Of-Way train without even knowing it[8D].

How could you not know?

If I remember right it was a BN SD40-2 and some freight cars. I just suspected it was a mixed freight and then I saw the backhoes in the hopper cars. It wasn’t a very long train, maybe 8 or 10 cars long, but I really don’t remember; it could have been even shorter than that.

Thats cool i understand why now. ive seen the same thing before on ns.

A large water slide, too large to go over the road, on VTR going from the fair at Rutland Vt to the Big E in Springfield, MA