Re: Has ARMN lost a car?
Author: theconductor
Date: 05-20-2012 - 15:56
mook Wrote:
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> A lone ARMN refrigerator car has been sitting at
> Brighton (seen from Sacramento light rail bridge
> under the freeway and over the railroad) for
> nearly a year. Haven't seen any activity around it
> (on rush hour LR trips), but if there is supposed
> to be machinery in a space near one end at the top
> it isn't there any more (roof section removed and
> space empty). Amazingly not too badly graffitied -
> though that area is well-populated by homeless who
> might scare off the garden-variety punks and it's
> a bit away from roads. Same area where the
> spreader work was done a couple of years ago,
> though that was down on the flats and this car is
> up near the main line.
I roll by that car every day at work and wonder the same thing. Why not just put a new drawbar in it and get rid of it. I've even worked with the engineer who was in charge of the train that popped the drawbar out of it! There should be some sort of betting pool on when it will be moved!