Thought this would be interesting to model. You just need a spare 50-foot single-door box car. It's in Williams, Arizona near the Santa Fe Depot. I spotted it off https://maps.google.com aerial -- this is off Google Street View.
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Matt
That's cool! But a gondola would have made it harder to fall into the arroya.
True. They actually put railings across the door openings but they're hard to see. I think they were going for that "covered bridge" look. The funny thing is that they've been using retired flat cars for bridges for years -- saw one out near Fillmore, CA next to Highway 126.
File under: "There's a prototype for everything."
On I-55 between Bloomington and Springfield, (I can't remember exactly where) there is an old Illinois Central flat car being used as a bridge over a creek in a farmer's field. On the east side of the highway. I try to see it every time we go to St. Louis. One of these days I will try to get a photo of it.
some western movies used flats to cross ditches/creeks
@third rail posted:On I-55 between Bloomington and Springfield, (I can't remember exactly where) there is an old Illinois Central flat car being used as a bridge over a creek in a farmer's field. On the east side of the highway. I try to see it every time we go to St. Louis. One of these days I will try to get a photo of it.
On the UP line north of Vegas, the UP uses old flat cars as bridges for their vehicle trail alongside The tracks.
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