The was no description with the video.
Maybe prototype for a new Lionel action accessory.
Rusty
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They needed wheels.
Initially, it looked to me like he was trying to use the bucket to open the hatch but then he kept going as the car started to tip.
That's hard to figure out. That seems the least likely place to scrap out a freight car. As for opening the hatches, it should have been easy enough to climb up on top of the car. Maybe they're setting up a training for a derailment crew to right the car.
It's that dang ugly graffiti.
Kids fooling around with the construction equipment. 
yeah, "Hold my beer".
@Byrdie posted:Initially, it looked to me like he was trying to use the bucket to open the hatch but then he kept going as the car started to tip.
@AGHRMatt posted:As for opening the hatches, it should have been easy enough to climb up on top of the car.
Not only that, but those style hatches open along the length of the car, not to the side.
There was a purpose to pulling the car over, there are chain chocks on the trucks and the ground man didn't go into a panic to try to get the machine operator to stop.
Rusty
The good ol' boys have moved on!.....
It's the new form of....
.... if you have something cool to play with.....like a mechanical 'tipper'!
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Some nit-pickers will go to extremes to get the underbody detail correct!
"Larry!? You did check to see if it was empty, didn't you?? Yo!....Larry?
"See, Moe? I told you they forgot to screw on the trucks!"
Hopperoscopy, Step 2. (Larry, above, was supposed to take care of Step 1.)
Stan, nursing a bad back, decided to find the leak in the air line less painfully. Ollie offered to help.
A budding graffiti artist, Shemp decided to decorate where no man had decorated before.
etc.
Attachments
...they wanted to get every last little bit out?
Mitch
Am I the only one who felt bad about poor CNLX8180?
Very sad
The more likely reason is that this car has reached the end of its service life. Fifty years and it’s done.
The trucks and wheels are newer and can be salvaged. They would have been replaced several times over the cars life and would not be fifty years old.
I believe that was Mrs Olsen operating the Maxwell House Coffee backhoe.....trying to make sure the coffee inside is "good to the last drop"! Thx to fellow Forumites, I corrected my faux pax....
@redjimmy1955 posted:I believe that was Mrs Olsen operating the Folgers Coffee backhoe.....trying to make sure the coffee inside is "good to the last drop"!
Maxwell House was "Good to the last drop..."
Folgers is "The best part of waking up."
Rusty
Can somebody find when this series of covered hoppers was built?
Andrew
@falconservice posted:Can somebody find when this series of covered hoppers was built?
Andrew
Somewhere between 1965 and 1975.
Rusty
@Rusty Traque posted:Maxwell House was "Good to the last drop..."
Folgers is "The best part of waking up."
Rusty
And Chock Full O' Nuts was "that heavenly coffee, better coffee a millionaire's money can't buy."
Sorry, it was there, had to do it.
@Byrdie posted:And Chock Full O' Nuts was "that heavenly coffee, better coffee a millionaire's money can't buy."
...made famous...again...in the movie "The Bucket List"!
Great movie, if you haven't seen it.
I agree with Matt: setting up a training exercise.
@CAPPilot posted:I agree with Matt: setting up a training exercise.
I lean the same way. That part of the yard is clean, and scrapping normally leaves a mess to clean up after the big scrap is hauled away.
