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No, I didn't step back in time as it's still 2018, but this sure felt like it. This past Saturday April 21st, I ventured up to Mentor to get a few trains in the evening and behold the best train catch was CSX eastbound freight train Q560. The engines were average GE CSX GEVO's, but the cars were something else. First off were original Illinois Central covered hoppers, CSX 86' Boxcars, then a VERY RARE SURPRISE CATCH - CHESSIE SYSTEM 86' Boxcar. And also not counting for past railroad, but rare to see out an original Montana Rail Link high cube boxcar now owned by NS. As in the video, this freight was decent size and it was very cool to see it going about 25MPH. Not the usual 50MPH through this location for freights. 

But anyway, I wanted to get these cars, because as I say, trains are always not about the engines.

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I live about 150 yards from a N/S line here. It's common to see cotton Belt, Southern, conrail, Norfolk & Western and others in there freight line up. I need to take some pics. I even seen a few time KCS cars. I enjoy seeing what all is different running by here. About two weeks ago I saw the red and black Santa- Fe engines in the line up coming thru. That was a first for me. First thought it was BNSF but it was definitely SF. 

 

Thanks for posting

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TOM -

Whenever I am railfanning in the Pittsburgh, PA area,  I always keep a lookout for any odd or Fallen Flag cars on freights. As you know cars pop up here and there and it's cool to catch them. I't suprising how many are still in use today.

I probably have over 100 Fallen Flag pics from the past several years and plan to make myself a DVD of just these cars. It's great to look back on these and would make a moving screen saver of them.

A continued thanks for your postings.

Very cool!

Sorta like a rolling "barn find," to borrow a term from the car collecting and hot rod hobby.

I found myself expecting to see a caboose at the end of the train.  

Except for the bulkhead flatcars, most of it looked like a manifest freight that had been set out on an obscure siding somewhere and forgotten for several decades.

Thanks for sharing.

Alan

 

rtraincollector posted:

I live about 150 yards from a N/S line here. It's common to see cotton Belt, Southern, conrail, Norfolk & Western and others in there freight line up. I need to take some pics. I even seen a few time KCS cars. I enjoy seeing what all is different running by here. About two weeks ago I saw the red and black Santa- Fe engines in the line up coming thru. That was a first for me. First thought it was BNSF but it was definitely SF. 

 

Thanks for posting

Red and black Santa Fe engines???  Red, silver, yellow and black perhaps?  The old Warbonnet color scheme?

To Tom’s video; I note the reporting marks on the former IC cars makes them private and not railroad owned.  Still; fortunate that whoever owns them now figures paint is the least of his worries.

Curt

Fun to see. Thanks.  While railfanning over the last 10 years or so I've seen New York Central, Pennsylvania, B&O (with the capitol dome logo), C&O, Milwaukee Road, Chessie (quite a few), Illinois Central, and quite a number of others. Even saw an old Alcoa Aluminum hopper once that looked like the MPC-era Lionel version. It's always a highlight to see this stuff. Nice to know some of it is still roaming the rails.

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