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[skyliner]

A couple of years ago I was driving around Tacoma looking for a good spot to take some pictures. I ended up at Titlow Beach, hoping to get a good shot of a southbound train with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the background. Well, by the time a train came by, the sun had already moved off from the best lighting position and the place I'd picked to wait turned out to not be that great a spot to get a train and the bridge in the viewfinder.

So anyway, here's a picture of the middle of that train highlighting some containers. I believe these are trash containers, note the top covers and Waste Management company placards. Interestingly, the upper container on the left has a UN 2212 hazmat diamond on it, which means it's carrying...asbestos.

 

[D&J RailRoad]

Not exactly TOFC or COFC but these are pretty close.

 

[skyliner]

Crew change in Truckee, CA, taken 2013. Donner Pass, Tunnel 41, and the summit are about ten miles ahead.

 

[PMW]

Not the power that will eventually pull this train. It might even be a foreign train (NS) on my CSX layout.... not sure yet

 

[DakotaLove39]

Video of my WIP 1970's pig train. This is a bit dated now as I've gotten a few more nice trailers.

Also doing a custom Hennepin Overland flatcar for this train, because why not.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

A battery operated grinder will go through any lock you want to put on there.



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Thanks for the idea

 

[KriegslokBR52]

I'm not sure if this counts...it's on flat cars;

Load of B737s poised to go west on former Northern Pacific, place is Helena, Montana.

 

[BigGRacing]

Video of my WIP 1970's pig train. This is a bit dated now as I've gotten a few more nice trailers.

Also doing a custom Hennepin Overland flatcar for this train, because why not.

I think those trailer models are perfect! It represents an entire era of transport in my opinion.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

It's july 31, 2023 and a west bound double stack is coming into Havre, Montana:

On the immediate right are former Great Northern locomotive shops, and squeezed over to far right two grain elevators with a siding.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

It's May 15, 2024 and a westbound with trailers and containers is rounding the "Horseshoe Curve"

 

[kjd]

Well I almost missed today’s TOFC/COFC. This is a bitter sweet pic my last container I dropped on the yard as a Intermodal driver for 25 years last August View attachment 175228

Your post is nearly a year old but wondering if you know what year the MACK is? I hope you are enjoying your retirement!

 

[danpik]

 

[Bruette]

Trailers on Flat Cars, one of my favorite trains! I know I'm early, but it is Tuesday across the pond.

Last but not least, my favorite photo; my grandson operating the train.

These photos were taken over ten years ago, we moved in 2017. I now have an entire attic for my trains. I still have not got a permanent layout up and running. My health and life keep getting in the way.

 

[kjd]

Two Twinkies and a Shark are rolling BN America containers past a poor coal train stuck in the siding.

In other words, an LMX B39-8 and two cabless BN B30-7As on an intermodal pass a coal train waiting in the siding for them to overtake.