What Type of Railcar Is This?
About this picture of a yellow car (right) that appeared twice on page 311 of the “Sunset Route Two-Tracking Updates” thread of the TRAINS Magazine “General Discussion” forum …
… jeffhergert reply posted: “That yellow box car looks like a full size track cleaning car. It might be an image that would be of interest over on the model railro
It’s BANANA colored…therefore it must be a BANANA train…very rare.
Another possible prototype for the Cold War era:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=186052&nseq=4
A missile launch car…
Just a guess, but the box slung under it might be some sort of device for measuring track gauge.
Steve S
The train looks like it is doing kind of track maintenance. The two cars ahead of the yellow one appear to have concrete ties