Saturday, March 8, 2025

PASSING TRAINS PT 48; MCP-91 PT 2

 Train MCP-91 (Manifest, Cumberland - Pittsburgh) is passing through Hillsdale...

ET44AC 500 and AC4400 8900 pass the city and head west to Pittsburgh.
A pair of VTTX converted 60' flatcars doing what they were converted for -carrying containers.
A pair of 60' CN boxcars, with yet another TBOX behind them.
CGFX 992121 is ex-CEFX reefer 992121. Look closely, and you can see the "G" is a different font from the other three letters.
CGFX 992114 is another ex-CEFX reefer.
A brand-new 68' GNTX RailGon gondola and yet another CN car, this time a WC marked gondola.
UTLX 300315 is leased to Specialty Minerals. It is followed by a potash hopper.
Yet another TBOX, but this time a "grid-side" car, with a BNSF box behind it.

A pair of FBOX 50' high cube "grid-side" boxcars.
Another look at the VTTX converted flatcars. During the late 80's, TTX converted over a thousand 60' general service flatcars into container-only VTTX cars, removing the decks and adding container pedestals. They can carry either one 40' and one 20' container or three 20' containers, as seen here. With a pair of loaded tank containers, the first car is probably carrying its max load capacity.
The rest of the train nest week.


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