Freight Cars

Central of Georgia 50-foot, 50-ton boxcar 5908 was on the Southern Railway in New Orleans, still wearing its original black-and-aluminum “watermelon” paint scheme. This was one of 500 cars (CG 5500-5999) built by Pullman-Standard as Lot No. 8198 in 1954.

Photographed on an L&N train, this car rode on National B-1 trucks and had been built at the Burlington's HAVELOCK SHOPS in Lincoln, Nebraska in October 1944.

New Orleans Public Belt COTTON WAREHOUSE YARD

ICG Poydras Yard

ICG 199624 was built as IC 9624 in 1957 or 1958. It received this non-standard paint job in October 19Ë0, while assigned to the railroad's New Orleans work train.

This low-bulkhead brick car is lettered "Return Empty Via Reverse Route To GM&ORR Macon, MS" and the removable sides are stenciled "Brick Loading Only." The car was built in October 1953, and is on an ICG team track next to the Coca-Cola bottling plant on Jefferson Davis Parkway.

Southern XP 599000 was one of two AUTO GUARD cars built by the Greenville Steel Car Co. in October 1973. It was retired by the Norfolk Southern in October 1993 and donated to the Virginia Transportation Museum in Roanoke. The car was photographed in the Southern's Oliver Yard.

This caboose looks a lot like a former KCS car from the L&A 380-390 series. These were built by the railroad from box cars in 1952.

Illinois Central 40-foot 55-ton XME derailed at Florenville, Louisiana. The STB lettering showed that the car was equipped with the SPARTON TRI-BELT boxcar bracing system.

A bit dirty, Southern Railway 50-foot XL wears its original blue-yellow-and-green paint scheme which identified it as the 200,000th car built by Pullman-Standard at Bessemer, Alabama. The car was photographed on the Southern-Kansas City Southern interchange, just west of>the KCS West Yard.

Haliburton car HWCX 102 was on the Southern Pacific at Avery Island, Louisiana. It had a CAPY 154,000 of pounds, LD LMT 157,100 LW 62,900 for a GRL of 220,000 pounds, and was built in January 1972. The AAR code for this car is LM, which is defined as “A car equipped with one or more permanently enclosed tanks or containers, provided with one or more openings for loading and equipped for pneumatic or gravity unloading. Car is suitable for handling certain dry powder or granular commodities, and also low viscosity, non-dangerous liquid commodities.”

This <I>SHARE IN FREEDOM</I> XL was one of 250 50-6 cars in the KCS series 110001-112496 built by Pullman-Standard at Michigan City in June-July 1967. It was photographed on the New Orleans Public Belt next to a transit shed along the Mississippi River and its data was: CAPY 188 000, LD LMT 189 400, LT WT 73 600, CU FT 5224. The Chicago & North Western subsequently purchased 150 of these and rebuilt them at its car shop in Clinton, Iowa as C&NW 164000-164149.

Ashely, Drew & Northern plug-door box car 5552 was photographed on the North Louisiana & Gulf at Gibsland, Louisiana. The car was lettered WHEN EMPTY RETURN TO / AGENT ASHLEY DREW & NORTHERN / RAILWAY CROSSETT ARKANSAS. It had a CAPY of 140,000 pounds, a LD LMT of 149,300 and a LT WT of 70,700 for a gross rail load of 220,000. This was one of 45 cars in the AD&N 5550-5594 series, and they were later rebuilt with conventional sliding doors before moving on to the ICG, where they wore the WLO reporting mark.

Ex-Penn Central 50-foot box car, stretched from a 40-foot car. CAPY 110 000, LD LMT 121 100, LT WT 55 900, TY 6-75

CAPY 140 000, LD LMT 164 900, LT WT 45 100, CU FT 1582, BLT 3-42

This 143-foot-long load spanned five cars, and was supported by two of the Southern Pacific's ten F-100-1 cars. These were the SP's first 100-ton flat cars and had been built by Gunderson in 1964. The load was lettered FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY CORP.; LIVINGSTON, NEW JERSEY USA and was parked in the Southern Railway's Terminal Junction Yard. From left to right, the cars were L&N 21456, SP 597000, L&N 24999, SP 597004 and MP 8819. L&N 24999 was a 20-foot "spacer car" built in July 1965.

This 20-foot car was built in July 1965 and was lettered as a SPACER CAR. It was one of five cars being used to move this load, which was parked in the Southern Railway's Terminal Junction Yard in New Orleans. The lettering on the 143-foot load read FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY CORP.; LIVINGSTON, NEW JERSEY USA. The car was subsequently renumbered CSXT 600490.

Rock Island snow plow 95581 had been rebuilt from one of the railroad's distinctive whaleback tenders and was assigned to the Texas Panhandle, although it wasn't needed on this midsummer day.

This 42-inch gauge 50-foot bi-level auto rack was photographed 10 years before the CN abandoned its narrow gauge network on Newfoundland. CAPY 56 000, LD LMT 56 700, LT WT 46 300, BLT 9.66, AX 10.66

42-inch gauge

CAPY 154 000, LD LMT 168 800, LT WT 51 200, CU FT 2003. This car was on either the SP or the MP.

On the Texas State Railroad

Meridian & Bigbee caboose 106 was parked outside of the railroad's shop in Meridian, Mississippi.

The lettering to the left of the door reads FOR PAPER / LOADING ONLY and WHEN EMPTY RETURN / TO AGENT M&BRR / NAHEOLA, ALA. The capacity data is CAPY 110 000, LD LMT 124 100, LT WT 52 900.

CAPY 110 000 XM, LD LMT 119 200, LT WT 57 800 COL 8-77, CU FT 3372, BLT 4-59

A damaged car stored at the CAGY car shop area in Columbus. CAPY 154 000 LO, LD LMT 158 700, LT WT 61 300 JN 7-77, BLT 1-43, PAINTED 7-77, 2800 CU FT. JN is Jena, LA on the LOAM, and Craig Burroughs was involved with both railroads at that time.

CAPY 154 000 XM, LD LMT 157 400, LT WT 62 600, NEW 3-79, FMC

Stored at the car shop area in Columbus.

Stored at the car shop area in Columbus, lettered HOME SHOP FOR REPAIR / DO NOT LOAD / RULE 1

It looks like work was underway to repaint this former IC car for the CAGY, and then the railroad decided it wasn't going to use cabs and the work just stopped. Photographed at the railroad's car shop area in Columbus

New Orleans Public Belt covered hoppers 235 and 233, from the series 201-235. The car is stenciled IN DEDICATED SERVICE and LOCAL SERVICE ONLY-DO NOT INTERCHANGE.

Kansas City Southern 325 was one of 10 stainless steel cabs built for the railroad by the Darby Corporation in 1967. Darby built 43 of these cars for the KCS between 1964 and 1970.

Kansas City Southern's Jordan spreader 097 was next to the engine house at Heavener, Oklahoma.