Western Railroad Discussion > At least they're building new gons

I was down at Bergstrom (MP 186 on the Austin Sub) this morning while on my Sunday morning newspaper run. Caught the MFWSA going into the siding for two. A freshly-painted gon caught my eye.

Cloudy morning with some "Texas weather" on the way. 41 degrees tonight, 27 tomorrow night.

Mike

1. Newly-installed PTC antenna at North Bergstrom.
2. MFWSA with a trio of SD70M's (UP 4568, UP 4796 and UP 5054) takes the siding for 2 northbounders
3. Getting a roll-by

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4. Built 11-12
5. NB Manifest with several cuts of empty frack sand hoppers
6. Amtrak 22 coming around



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/09/12 14:57 by PALuvR.

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UP has new ones too.

Adam

How about that, I just caught two brand new Rail Gon gondolas here at MP-351, Bliss, Idaho today.
And I have also caught some of the brand new UP gons here.

The TTX RailGons look to be a very solid design. I haven't looked at any comparative measurements, but they appear to be deeper than many gons. The side posts right above the truck centers are beefy, and there's lots of reinforcement elsewhere in the car. Being gons, all a good thing. They get so beat up.

Those new TTX Railgons are being built by National Steel Car Co in Hamilton Ontario Canada. They have been building them by the hundreds. I have a picture of new GNTX 295708 taken on Oct. 12 2012 leaving Hamilton along with several others. CP Rail delivers them to Chicago, I would assume.

I was gonna say that, NSC's new gons are looking pretty good.

There is no 'k' in frac.

dcfbalcoS1 Wrote:
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> There is no 'k' in frac.


There is if they messed up your water supply.