It’s been a while since I posted some interesting pics – kinda busy and not doing much of my typical research. I got stuck on a topic until I saw the first pic. I tend to ignore a lot of the MR articles on unique loads. Since I tend towards operation, my thoughts on loads generally circle back to what industries are you serving on the line. There are no unusual loads – just loads required by your customers. The exception would be active bridge lines where occasional odd loads may cross over. But with that said, I reflect back on the Cincinnati Northern and the industries it served – New Idea and the farm equipment. And who says anything coming out of Dupps isn’t unusual? So…loads!
gondola loads – Someone looking for something unusual?
Here’s a combination of auto car and piggyback. They put late ‘50s auto trailers on flatcars.
This is called a Schnabel car. It’s hauling a load to a nuclear plant in Georgia
These two flat cars are holding a highway suspension “girder” (using the term girder a bit loosely).
When I saw the highway “girder” suspended between two flatcars (not terribly unusual), it reminded me a another photo I had seen. This is labeled “Dangerous Roadways” – but I ask, ”How much danger is because of the road?
…And of course, if we’re on logging, we need a pic of a steam donkey. Caption: “1917 Logging ….. Steam donkey near Menzie’s Bay Willamette 12×14 high speed Duplex yarder and loader, known at the Bloedel, Stewart and Welch operation as the Riley Combination Yarder and Loader. 65-ton Shay locomotive in background.”
Back to loads – loading up the express car:
More typical is the coal load – Here’s another great scene similar to what Joe modeled in Lewisburg. This is the St. Bernard Coal Co. in Louisville:
Still on coal, if you need a really small coal dealership, here’s how it’s done:
So, how does gold ore get moved? “Gold ore being hand loaded into boxcars for transport to a processing facility.”
Once loaded, you got to get to your destination. But we all know how traffic in LA and around Long Beach can get:
Do you need a load for that heavy duty flatcar you bought?
Or how about this? (Shine it up and it might be something coming out of Dupps.)
And if you have an old switcher that doesn’t work anymore:
Do you have a whole train’s worth of heavy flats? (Plus, you can mix some of your more typical flats between as connectors!)
And another interesting flatcar load – 3 flats along side the Madison-Kipp Corporation, 201 Waubesa Street, beside the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad tracks.
That’s really cool