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Western Railroad Discussion > What about the UP heritage cars?Date: 02/10/11 19:49 What about the UP heritage cars? Author: lowwater Here are a couple now really-bad, i.e. low-pixel, shots from 10 years ago. In addition to these two coal hoppers IIRC there were at least a gondola and a covered hopper, maybe more. Any still around?
lowwater   Date: 02/10/11 19:57 Re: What about the UP heritage cars? Author: BNSF7400 Here's one of the Rio Grande hoppers in Cajon (passing Hill 582 on UP's Mojave Sub). Cool looking cars, to bad this one had so much damn graffiti.
 Date: 02/10/11 20:09 Re: What about the UP heritage cars? Author: inCHI I recently saw these two unofficial heritage cars in the same train. Taken about a week ago on a freight in Chicago heading north onto UP's Milwaukee Sub.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/10/11 20:09 by inRVA.   Date: 02/11/11 06:03 Re: What about the UP heritage cars? Author: nathan314 Here ya go:
There are both DRGW and SSW covered hoppers. I don't seem to have a photo of the SSW ones, but they had a blue cotton gin logo on them. The WP box with the Overland logo is a little older. Nathan Beauheim   Date: 02/11/11 08:07 Re: What about the UP heritage cars? Author: lowwater Thanks for the pics, guys, but my question is are they still around? Nathan, what are the dates on your pics? The covered hopper pic looks familiar, although maybe it's just because at one time there were several of it floating around. I don't remember seeing the WP car with the Overland Route shield before though.
lowwater Date: 02/12/11 06:03 Re: What about the UP heritage cars? Author: nathan314 The DRGW car was photographed 6/18/03 in Cheyenne. It's still showing up on CSX's search but not BNSF's.
The WP car was photographed 6/16/04 in Cheyenne. It's listed by both CSX and BNSF. Here's a 2008 photo of one of the SSW cars: http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=41995 I don't recall seeing any of these cars in a while, but they were never very common. Nathan Beauheim Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/11 06:04 by nathan314. |