I saw a few WP steel trains. Rolls on flats w/o covers and open gondolas to....
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Wow; Dueling dunderheads! Conrail racks are mounted on TTX equipment, so that's a very bad example of 'CR' reporting marks. See this photo of a similar Conrail built coil car in "NYC" marks.
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By agreement; CR became an "NS" mark on interchane equipment. CSX got "NYC". Team track may only need one coil car at a time under their crane. Takes 3+ trucks to get it to the buyer.
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Had no idea Conrail reporting marks were still in use on some cars. Also seems strange to me to see a single coil car. You'd think steel shipments would travel in blocks. (Shrug) All reasons t
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Yep, 2 covers per car, each a 1/2 round cover with a crane hitch in the middle.
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Wow, a railroad-related question, with (what seems to be) a sensible answer! I actually learned something new, thank you!
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Fred Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was watching a train the other day when a car > titled "COIL CAR" rolled by. Along with the title > "COIL CAR" was the notif
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Was it one of the coil cars with covers?
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I was watching a train the other day when a car titled "COIL CAR" rolled by. Along with the title "COIL CAR" was the notification "INSULATED". Why does a car devoted to carrying steel coils need to b
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Thanks for the photos Matthew. It's great to see some relics made it some long years in general car service (in some way or another). The HO model seemed to be longer than the prototypes, possibly due
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Lake Terminal in Lorain ohio has several of these cars still in service with the clamshell hoods removed. They are in bad shape, but still used for carring coils. Years ago Bachmann did HO models
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indeed the clamshell covers were a poor experiment. Even in the 70's at least one P&LE car had all that removed and was a simple gon. I took B&W's of it @ Judson Steel in Emeryville--now a shopping
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I remember when I was a child (late 70's/early 80's), I had a model railroad car that was called an "Integral-Cover Coil Car". I have done some research on the car in the last few weeks, and cannot fi
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