Nostalgia & History > Old clean Box, BKTY marks

It looks like some of these cars maybe were ex-GMRC(Green Mountain Railroad Corp) and ex-TASD(Terminal Dock Alabama) built in the late 70's originally!

Not sure, rolled thru a few week ago at Rosamond, look clean with old BKTY marks perhaps left over from the MKT days in the early 80's.

Anyone know more about this one!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/13/17 09:36 by Fiftyfooter.

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There was a little discussion about the Reporting Marks.

They belong to the Katy, but during the period of Barringer leadership the company had a substantial mortgage with a particular lender. The cars in that mortgage were under BKTY reporting marks, hence, they are marked BKTY rather than the typical KTY.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/13/17 13:17 by rrpreservation.

rrpreservation Wrote:
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> There was a little discussion about the Reporting
> Marks.
>
> They belong to the Katy, but during the period of
> Barringer leadership the company had a substantial
> mortgage with a particular lender the cars in that
> mortgage were under BKTY reporting marks, hence,
> the specific BKTY rather than the typical KTY.
Someone told me that a bank owned those cars with BKTY. Only the company officials knew which bamk held the title to the cars.
John

There are many of these boxcars with BKTY marks running on the Sunset Route. I've seen numerous trains with long cuts of old BKTY marks.
I think they may be used for auto parts coming across the border at Eagle Pass TX, but I do not have any direct knowledge. There is a massive car cleaning/servicing facility at Spofford TX, and many BKTY go there.

Thanks, interesting information!

No secret - Bankers Leasing leased these to the Katy (hence the B for bankers)

Lots of these run on the SSW/SP across Texas these days, some clean like this, some patched, some tagged.

These cars didn't have anything to do with the original BKTY reporting marks. Probably UP is using them as a marker for a specific class of leased cars. They have revived the CMO reporting marks for some applications, coal gons, aggregate gons, and some covered hoppers.