Western Railroad Discussion > Mystery Box

Hmmm....

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The only possible explanation is it's permanently coupled to the other box? Otherwise it should not be in the train.
JB

Definitely unusual.
That tank car looks a bit different too; no expansion dome.  I saw some like that near Bassett, CA recently.

LRS 2534 shows currently in Ray, TX heading for Oklahoma. Someone, most likely someone without authorization, painted over the reporting marks.

I have also seen similar white tank cars  like that without a dome,in Wisconsin, on the Wisconsin & Southern.  They were parked on an isolated siding, so no pic or getting reporting marks. Any comments?

Tamk car is a cryogenic tank car for shipping compressed gases such as carbon dioxide and argon.

See this thread for a car on the WSOR:
https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4049823,4049824#msg-4049824

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/06/19 07:18 by kevink.

3rdswitch Wrote:
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> The only possible explanation is it's permanently
> coupled to the other box? Otherwise it should not
> be in the train.
> JB

If you press Ctrl and + at the same time the image on your screen will zoom in, and you can quite clearly read the reporting marks and number.  You might need to scroll side to side or up and down.  Ctrl and - will zoom the image back out for you.

Jim

Thanks, Jim, I've been wondering how to do that.  Control and - at the same time reduces the image.  Radical concept!  LOL

The reporting marks look to be TOE and the trailing car appears to be the same.  But why they would drawbar two box cars escapes me.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

Nick,

What number do you think these cars are?  My screen can't display them enough for me to read it.

It's LRS 2534.

Mystery Box?  You could have had the boat.

- Lois Griffin

Jimmies Wrote:
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> It's LRS 2534.

thank you, checking this car in Umler, it's a single car, no drawbar.  Given the other drawbar cars I've handled in the past there's no information on the LRS car record to indicate it was drawbarred and the dimensions fit a single car.