Nostalgia & History > GNwoodchip car today.......

often seen on this corridor between Keddie and KFalls........this one is interesting in that the white painted line on the car side is not there as most of the other cars......i think it is for loading purposes?

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LesWhite Wrote:
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> often seen on this corridor between Keddie and
> KFalls........this one is interesting in that the
> white painted line on the car side is not there as
> most of the other cars......i think it is for
> loading purposes?

Also NP cars can be seen.

Hiroshi

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Hiroshi Wrote:
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> LesWhite Wrote:
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> > often seen on this corridor between Keddie
> and
> > KFalls........this one is interesting in that
> the
> > white painted line on the car side is not
> there as
> > most of the other cars......i think it is
> for
> > loading purposes?
>
> Also NP cars can be seen.
>
> Hiroshi

yes well spotted there is that white line i talked about too!
>

Got about a dozen chipcar pix this weekend on a sb thru Tacoma. I will post a couple here...more if anyone is interested.
This car was likely a NP car at one time..outside braced and kind of a rare breed.
Roger Beckett

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A NP car..without the white line.

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There are a few BNSF cars now and then. "Stinky Stew" seems to be making his mark on cars these days.
Roger B

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And in case we missed his name...he must be proud!

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i saw an ex atsf box with "waterbed lou" painted in white......one wonders what thoughts that might conjure up...

up833 Wrote:
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> Got about a dozen chipcar pix this weekend on a sb
> thru Tacoma. I will post a couple here...more if
> anyone is interested.
> This car was likely a NP car at one time..outside
> braced and kind of a rare breed.
> Roger Beckett

Yes, please!

Hiroshi

SP 55197

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UP 147886

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BN 587471 and its an ex GN skyblue car as evident by the blue showing thru the green in spots.
Hope you enjoyed..
Roger B

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up833 Wrote:
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> Got about a dozen chipcar pix this weekend on a sb
> thru Tacoma. I will post a couple here...more if
> anyone is interested.
> This car was likely a NP car at one time..outside
> braced and kind of a rare breed.
> Roger Beckett



Actually this car is ex-GN 174133. If you see it again, and can get close enough, you should be able see the old GN number stenciled on the frame. You may have to crouch down low to see.


Kodachromedude

aka "The Woodchip car guy"

up833 Wrote:
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> There are a few BNSF cars now and then. "Stinky
> Stew" seems to be making his mark on cars these
> days.
> Roger B

Roger, I'm guessing that this is a repaint. I don't know if Gunderson or anyone else is building new chip gons. If no new ones, any idea when the last cars were built?

Butch,,,,,,here we go

truxtrax Wrote:

any idea when the
> last cars were built?


I believe BN got their last new ones in 1981.

Kodachromedude

Refering to the BNSF Freight Cars Vol 1..
In Oct 2003 there were 1,529 chip cars. Oldest built in 1965 and the latest in 1981. An interesting tidbit..Frisco and ATSF did not have specifically designed woodchip cars. Only highsided gons that had to be unloaded from the top. Most (if not all) the BN cars had doors at one or both ends (according to the book).
Roger Bedkett

up833 Wrote:
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> An
> interesting tidbit..Frisco and ATSF did not have
> specifically designed woodchip cars. Only
> highsided gons that had to be unloaded from the
> top. Most (if not all) the BN cars had doors at
> one or both ends (according to the book).
> Roger Bedkett

This is true, but there are paper and pulp mills in the Northwest that have car-dumpers that will roll a car the same as some coal gon tippers. Longview Fiber had one of these in addition to an end-dump to not limit the type of car the shipper might have access to.

Butch,,,,,,,,here we go

up833 Wrote:
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> Refering to the BNSF Freight Cars Vol 1..
> In Oct 2003 there were 1,529 chip cars. Oldest
> built in 1965 and the latest in 1981. An
> interesting tidbit..Frisco and ATSF did not have
> specifically designed woodchip cars. Only
> highsided gons that had to be unloaded from the
> top. Most (if not all) the BN cars had doors at
> one or both ends (according to the book).
> Roger Bedkett

Actually, according to an old ORER book, ATSF did have 100 woodchip HOPPERS - and they were of the large, Greenville 7000cf design, in the 165000-165099 number range. Here's a photo of a Walthers HO scale model of one with the number 165078:

http://www.cchobbies.com/hoscale/freightcars/freighthtm/htmphotoes/932-5689.jpg

up833 Wrote:
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> BN 587471 and its an ex GN skyblue car as evident
> by the blue showing thru the green in spots.
> Hope you enjoyed..
> Roger B

Thank you Roger B for taking your time to post these photos. They are very informative, espeicailly modelers who want to model these cars.

Hiroshi