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 Post subject: Unknown passenger cars, Deshler, Ohio
PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:10 pm 
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Earlier today (Sunday 7/22), 3 unknown passengers cars were seen eastbound in a CSX manifest at Deshler, Ohio. For tracing, power was UP #6180 and UP #8349.

Screenshots below taken from the Virtual Railfan camera there.

Any info on these cars, histories, origin, or destination, would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!


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 Post subject: Re: Unknown passenger cars, Deshler, Ohio
PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:20 pm 

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Just not quite sharp enough to read the reporting marks.

If those were my cars, I'd be miffed at the placement in the consist. They should be spec'd in Umler to be on the trailing end or bad things can happen. Don't ask how I know....

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 Post subject: Re: Unknown passenger cars, Deshler, Ohio
PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:31 pm 

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My own experiences with shipping/expediting passenger cars on CSX is that they will normally couple a last "normal" freight car behind the last passenger car, if only because they can be sure the EOT/FRED unit fits right on the back coupler. I've had crews try to refuse a passenger car because they claimed they couldn't get the EOT unit on the coupler (and in one instance they were right--but there was plenty else to hang the EOT unit from elsewhere there).

Of course, I've also had a third-trick yardmaster at Willard stick a bilevel commuter car right in the dead middle of a long train--and get reamed a new one by the yardmaster in Chicago for that when it showed up.........


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 Post subject: Re: Unknown passenger cars, Deshler, Ohio
PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:50 pm 

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jayrod wrote:
Just not quite sharp enough to read the reporting marks.

If those were my cars, I'd be miffed at the placement in the consist. They should be spec'd in Umler to be on the trailing end or bad things can happen. Don't ask how I know....



That passenger car in the third photo is coupled to a tank car. It is very likely that the tank car has a top shelf coupler which is hitting the buffer plate on the passenger car and causing it to bend. At Midwest Railway we have stenciled all of our cars "Do Not Couple To Top Shelf Coupler" and we have also welded on EOT device brackets and marked them. The buffer plate on a passenger car gets in the way of the top of the knuckle so that you cannot place an EOT in it.


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 Post subject: Re: Unknown passenger cars, Deshler, Ohio
PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:44 am 

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Look like ex-circus train cars.

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 Post subject: Re: Unknown passenger cars, Deshler, Ohio
PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 10:14 am 

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Mr. Ed wrote:
Look like ex-circus train cars.

Wrong shade of silver, not shiny enough, wrong window configurations, and a host of other reasons to say "no" to that idea--UNLESS they were parts cars left at the Florida shop that never got a good RBBX paint job or rebuilding.


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 Post subject: Re: Unknown passenger cars, Deshler, Ohio
PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:12 pm 

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User "deestrains" over on Trainorders says

"These are NCDOT cars 400015, 400016, and 400206 returning to RGH from Avalon Rail, who performed a partial rebuild."

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