Canadian Railroads > Looking for an Intermodal Flatcar type ID

Yesterday's CN 430 had a block of 5 or 6 newish spine-type intermodal flatcars loaded with four 20' containers (Picture #1). It's been years since I last saw this type of car/cargo. From my vantage point, no reporting marks were visible. Does anyone know what kind of cars these might be?

Picture #2 shows the train (location: Ville St-Pierre, Montreal).

Ray   

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They look to be second-hand containers belonging to maybe AMEU? Couldn't find that reporting mark anywhere. Or maybe AHEU, but can't find that either. Also can't exactly see the hazardous placard but it looks to start with maybe 168. If you have any other pictures of the containers it could give us more clues

AMEU is the container reporting mark. I only took this one picture.

TO contributor PHall had an early response to this thread (since deleted) in which he thought the spine cars were designed for trash container service. I think this is correct, as I found a picture of what may be the same type of car once stored on the Batten Kill Railroad:

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2015032007561623392.jpg&order=byrail&page=1&key=Battenkill 

Ray

p.s. the placard is indeed 168 (with a small 6 at the bottom).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/25 18:41 by Ray_Murphy.

The cars are probably similar to this one. http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5378755
168 is not a valid placard number. The containers are probably placarded 1689 for sodium cyanide. Is there a gold mine in the direction they are headed?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/01/25 22:17 by EricSP.

EricSP Wrote:
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> The cars are probably similar to this one.
> http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5
> 378755
> 168 is not a valid placard number. The containers
> are probably placarded 1689 for sodium cyanide. Is
> there a gold mine in the direction they are
> headed?

UN1689 makes sense for the class 6 placard and marine pollutant placard

Rowdy Wrote:
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> EricSP Wrote:
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> > The cars are probably similar to this one.
> >
> http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5
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> > 378755
> > 168 is not a valid placard number. The
> containers
> > are probably placarded 1689 for sodium cyanide.
> Is
> > there a gold mine in the direction they are
> > headed?
>
> UN1689 makes sense for the class 6 placard and
> marine pollutant placard

My son found a picture of an earlier similar shipment (not the same flatcars, though), and the placard is indeed 1689 in this picture:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/106206623@N04/53363206486

I learned that the shipment I photographed was destined for a stevedore contractor at Becancoeur, QC, so it was probably being exported.

Ray



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/04/25 07:42 by Ray_Murphy.