PASSING TRAINS PT14; IC49 PT1

 Train IC49, is passing through town...

The west-bound Baltimore-Chicago intermodal train, today's IC49 is led by a pair of UP diesels, including MoPac Heritage unit 1982.

A rebuilt Thrall stack car leads the train. It has been shortened from a 48' well to a 40' well.

There are lots of K Line, NYK, and MOL containers in the train -all three of which merged in 2018 to form ONE (Ocean Network Express).

A pair of NYK 45' containers with "billboard" lettering.

A K Line dry box atop a 40' reefer. The cars are more ex-48' wells cut down to 40'; these are Gunderson cars.

A variety of K Line, MOL, and NYK boxes are seen here. Carrying international traffic makes IC49 a very colorful train to watch!

The car is a Gunderson Maxi IV, with 53' wells, being used to ship 45' containers. This happens more often than the railroads would like, but "life" happens to them like everyone else!

The two UP engines head out of town. Sometimes foreign power leads the way on a railroad's trains -especially pool power being returned to their owner(s).

Next week, the rest of IC49 -it's not all container traffic!