trackwalker Wrote:
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> Along a similar vein; does the BNSF or the UP still maintain a true fire train or at lest
> the ability to string some tank cars together and operate as a unit? with interconnected
> plumbing?

SP had a long string of fire cars at Eugene in years past; in the summer they'd be dispersed throughout the system. Two cars would be parked in McMinnville - one with a water pump on top, the other an interconnected tankcar. But never saw them used. W&P/P&W never used fire cars.

Some of the SP cars in later years were D&RGW narrow gauge tankcars mounted on flatcars.

Not sure if UP has any of this equipment left, or where it is.