Freight Car Photos (model and prototype)

[gnatshop]

Here is a very old, used but not abused ACL tank car in Taft, Fl. Taft is a few miles South of Orlando, Fl. This picture was taken in the late '60's.



Tom    

Durn, you were just a toddler then, weren't you?   

[ACL1504]

Gman,

Yes, of  course! Actually I was a Junior at U of F.

Tom

[Oldguy]

I've always like the "little" ore cars from the iron range, but never thought of a way to justify their existence in southern Missouri.  That is until I ran across these little beauties in Monett MO.  They were being used on the Big Red Line out of Lincoln, Nebraska until the A&M out of Arkansas bought them for sand/gravel service.

[halrey]

I've always like the "little" ore cars from the iron range, but never thought of a way to justify their existence in southern Missouri.  That is until I ran across these little beauties in Monett MO.  They were being used on the Big Red Line out of Lincoln, Nebraska until the A&M out of Arkansas bought them for sand/gravel service.

Cool, I have never seen them in prototype.
Hal

[jbvb]

The A&M identified a nice business: The Army Corps of Engineers is obliged to keep dredging the Arkansas River so barges can get to Muskogee, so they have a lot of sand and gravel to get rid of around Ft. Smith.  The A&M hauls it north into MO  in these and other types of cars and sells it as fill & aggregate.

[ACL1504]

Seaboard Air Line PS1 boxcar. Spotted at St. Augustine, Fl., late 70's.

[ACL1504]

Seaboard doodle bug Tampa, Fl. early 60's.

[ACL1504]

SAL Baldwin switcher and Geep. I think it is Jacksonville, I don't remember.

[bparrish]

That Seaboard doodlebug is so ugly it's cool...

Thanx
Bob

[ACL1504]

That Seaboard doodlebug is so ugly it's cool...

Thanx
Bob

I agree and it's more cool in the 1:1 world. This is the only one I've ever seen in person.

Tom

[ACL1504]

SCL caboose and Geep on a Sunday morning in Leesburg, Fl. 1970.

[ACL1504]

SAL caboose in Orlando late 60's.

[ACL1504]

[Oldguy]

Frisco Hopper interior -

[Raymo]

Here's one of a N&W flatcar modified to move brand new MACK truck cabs from a factory in Ohio? to Allentown Pa. for completion.