Western Railroad Discussion > A nearly extinct SP B-70-75, new boxcars, and other frieght cars

Went through some freight car photos from February and March of this year, and these are what stuck out as interesting.

1/2. An SP B-70-75 boxcar is headed west towards Iowa on CN M337. Seeing this car prompted me to look them up in the April 2022 ORER I have - basically a year ago - and there are only 13 left under SP marks. I never thought I'd see on at this point, especially on CN. It would have been built in early 1975, so it's got less than 2 years left before the 50-year rule hits.

3. On the same train is LRS 4331, looks like this is an FGE build from 1979.

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4-6. Meanwhile, plenty of new cars are rolling by, like these new GTW Trinity boxes built 1-23

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7. An old SP gon
8. Railgon patched as DRGW
9. This was confusing - a crisp, no-graffiti railgon with very intact yellow paint. Maybe a full repaint a few years ago?

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Another weird one -

10. I was at Clark Rd. in Gary, IN, and saw this shifted load on March 4th
11. Now that I dug through photos, I realized I saw the same load again on CN M337 on March 7th. Still shifted.
12. AOKX 44134 wheel car

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13. Another weird find, TILX 720007 is part of TILX 720000-720050. I was digging around on these cars recently because I've got photos of them being built in Delaware in 1999 as UPFE 23000-23049. I think that plant only existed for that order.
Amusingly, while no longer a UP car, it and the one next to it both had the same UP-related graffiti...
14. RCPE 316490 showing it's Santa Fe heritage
15. CN 90332 seems to be a major upgrade to 286k of one of their old ballast cars. Interesting that the branch line rehabilitation lettering carried over.

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Last bunch.

16. Brand new NS 162340
17. New UTLX 222058 "Hydrogen Peroxide Aqueous Solution"
18. SHPX 211869, the sticker says "remove this decal before loading car."

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Great photo series! Indeed, a few years back some Railgons were repainted into the original scheme. 

Almost passed over your post, then took the time to view it well done and will watch for more thanks.

Nice and interesting look at all the different freight cars!

Larry

inCHI Wrote:
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> Another weird one -
>
> 10. I was at Clark Rd. in Gary, IN, and saw this
> shifted load on March 4th
> 11. Now that I dug through photos, I realized I
> saw the same load again on CN M337 on March 7th.
> Still shifted.
> 12. AOKX 44134 wheel car


The Griffith Railcam shows a fascinating variety of car types.  

Nickatnight

 

ghemr Wrote:
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> Great photo series! Indeed, a few years back some
> Railgons were repainted into the original
> scheme. 

Thanks, that explains it! Can't think of many other cases of something like that.

nickatnight Wrote:
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> The Griffith Railcam shows a fascinating variety
> of car types.  
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> Nickatnight

It's a great camera, and really helpful for me. That's how I caught the SP box. I saw it on there about 1-2 hours before it gets to me in Chicago. Railstream has a nice camera really close to me, but it's so close that by the time I see something on it it'll be passing by my place seconds later. 

Good post. Those loads in Pics 10 and 11 are aluminum ingots.  NS moves loads of them regularly.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/19/23 11:54 by ns1000.

Nice find on the SP B-70-75 and that FGE-bult ONW car! Both don't have much time left, as you note. it's getting pretty rare to see any 50' Plate C boxcar these days, as they are aging out and the world has moved on to 60' cars as the new "standard". Photograph them while you can!

-Rick

Rick Selby
Redmond, WA
Pacific Northwest RPM

Great collection of freight car shots. I’ll have to keep my eyes open for those GTW cars.
There’s at least one other ex-ONW boxcar running around. I caught WRWK 4742 (ironically o was also on a CN M337 train) last fall. https://www.flickr.com/gp/33710285@N08/8Q5Gmu9h14

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"16. Brand new NS 162340"

Haven't seen that type before. What is that car for?

BigDave Wrote:
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> "16. Brand new NS 162340"
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> Haven't seen that type before. What is that car
> for?

Coil Steel car.