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Boxcar Antennas?
Author: Idler Car
Date: 07-27-2009 - 00:21

Yesterday I drove highway 99 south from Fresno to Bakersfield, in California. About 20 miles north of Bakersfield, on the UP main, at mile post 296, I saw two unusual box cars on a siding on the west side of the main. On each corner of the roof there was a vertical "strut", about 2-3 feet high, and the four corner struts were connected by a wire. This was too flimsy to be a support railing of any sort. The only thing I can think of is some sort of antenna. I did not see a wire leading below, or from the antenna on one car to the other, but I did not stop to look, so I may have missed that or other revealing clues.

Any idea what I saw?

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Boxcar Antennas? Idler Car 07-27-2009 - 00:21
  Re: Boxcar Antennas? rgcx 07-27-2009 - 05:02
  Re: Boxcar Antennas? Mike in OC 07-27-2009 - 08:10
  Re: Boxcar Antennas? Dave Ficklin 07-27-2009 - 08:34
  Re: Boxcar Antennas? Idler Car 07-27-2009 - 09:11
  Re: Boxcar Antennas? trainjunkie 07-27-2009 - 10:02
  Re: Boxcar Antennas? Steven D. Johnson 07-29-2009 - 10:12


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