Western Railroad Discussion > New Year's Eve Freight Cars, Last Section

Third and last section! The final batch of freight car photos from New Year's Eve. 
First section is here: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,5175854
Second section is here: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,5176989

Thread with the trains is here: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,5170926

The last train of the day and for 2020 was CN's M337 a regular afternoon westbound through Chicago's western suburbs on CN's Freeport Sub (former Illinois Central). Today's train had the usual mix of freight cars including:
1. COER 173323, a Gunderson boxcar
2. IC 799512, a 5150 CF NSC covered hopper
3. NOKL 853163 a 5300 CF NSC covered hopper. I beleive there is some arrangement between CN and NOKL that explains the NOKL reporting marks.

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4. CN 109963 with a somewhat decent Canada paint scheme
5. LSPX 655010. a Trinity-built covered hopper
6. UCRY 15870, another Gunderson boxcar



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/21 16:13 by kevink.

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7. LRS 16191 
8. LRS 100236, fairly new Gunderson boxcar
9. LRS 100345, another fairly new Gunderson boxcar



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/21 16:14 by kevink.

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And the last freight car for 2020:
10. WRWK 7844

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Thanks for sharing these! 

Amazing, several very new box cars.

Great series of freight cars Kevin!

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Ted Ferkenhoff
Flagstaff, AZ

railstiesballast Wrote:
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> Amazing, several very new box cars.


Which, according to several of the "experts" here on Train Orders, should not exist.

Neat shots. I see M337 most days and I've got a backlog of some to post as well. Those new blue boxes seem to be pretty common and I've also noticed high sided scrap gons, some new, are starting to become regular in the consist. This is a terrible photo, but the other day, there was a cut of 20-30 EQUX plastic pellet hoppers that made me wonder. Perhaps they are going into or out of storage. Seeing 30-50 DDG hoppers on M337 is normal, but never a big cut of plastic pellet hoppers.

I believe those blue boxcars are Trinity built cars. You can see their ends are different from that oxide red COER Gunderson built boxcar, also the attachment of the side ladders is different between the COER and LRS cars.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/21 11:51 by CFI_85.

CFI_85 Wrote:
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> I believe those blue boxcars are Trinity built
> cars. You can see their ends are different from
> that oxide red COER Gunderson built boxcar, also
> the attachment of the side ladders is different
> between the COER and LRS cars.

After reviewing the Trinity site, I think you're right. See: https://www.trinityrail.com/products/box-cars/