Covered Coil Cars. These new ones are slab sided. No need to replicate the complex curves of coil cars past.
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Yes they are coil cars with Arkansas Oklahoma Railroad reporting marks. rrpicturesarchive
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yuchc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > covered or uncovered is two different grades of > steel Ok that makes sense. Thanks
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covered or uncovered is two different grades of steel
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Uncovered steel coil cars? I guess so. The ones I'm used to seeing are always covered. He says he filmed this on the KCS in Leesville, Louisiana (on their main to the gulf ports). https://www.
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Was it one of the coil cars with covers?
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08:44 PST...Pittsburg roadswitcher doing their thing...handling a pretty good of loaded coil cars in the Hill Yard. Wonder if there'll be a Kaiser steel train tonight, or if they're spotting the mill
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Yes, nice shot there - of the engines - and maybe the Hanford platform. But where's the train - the stated subject (the coil cars) are hard to make out. Without them, this is just another nondescrip
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Chad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1) What is the regular traffic? Coil cars, Box > Cars to a paper company, any help would be nice R&A Trucking on 77th Ave
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I am a daily rider on the BART Line in the flatlands of Oakland CA. I have a few questions. 1) What is the regular traffic? Coil cars, Box Cars to a paper company, any help would be nice 2) Rece
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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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