AMERICA UNITS, PT6

With the 9-11 anniversary this week, let's take one more look at the units painted to honor the ones lost during the attacks; the America units.

The units roll eastward through town, with a train of autoracks, instead of the usual intermodal loads. Occasionally, the units stray onto other trains, but they are still kept together.

As usual, they draw a crowd whenever they come to town. Notice that 1776 is missing its flag on this side. This discrepancy has since been corrected.

A solid train of AutoMax's follows the units through town. The flexibility of the AutoMax, it can be configured as a bi-level for pickups and SUV's or as a tri-level for autos, has made it quite popular for the AP&W, which has 500 of them.

Dale points out the graffiti on the side of one of the cars to Norman as the train passes. At least most of the train is clean -for now.

The other workers notice the graffiti too. "If I catch any of my boys doing this, there'll be hell to pay", says Chris -and the other guys agree.