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Post by espeelover on May 22, 2008 13:46:22 GMT -5
If I'm gonna keep posting stuff, I better get organized now. SSW needs a freight car section, after all, they had to haul freight too, so here goes nothing!  SSW 77982 in May of 1980.  |
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Post by espeelover on May 22, 2008 14:12:19 GMT -5
Another load of rice for Budweiser.... SSW 70302 about 8 months old in May of 1980.
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Post by SSW9389 on May 23, 2008 7:23:49 GMT -5
If you ever find yourself in Stuttgart, Arkansas you may find a number of the old Cotton Belt ACFs at the Riceland Complex.
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Post by SSW9389 on May 23, 2008 7:43:01 GMT -5
Found this faded gem on an NS parts train at Keno, KY on 4-8-2001. This one is also on the Railgoat's page IIRC.  |
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Post by SSW9389 on May 23, 2008 7:45:16 GMT -5
This one is on the fly over the hump at Cresson, PA 7-7-97.  |
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Post by espeelover on May 25, 2008 14:35:32 GMT -5
 Upon a closer look I see something I was unaware of before. Even though this pic has been in my slide box
for nearly 30 years now, I never noticed that the data and all small print was yellow, while the reporting
marks seem to have always been white. The changes in CAPY and LD LMT done in Pine Bluff demonstrate this.
Photo taken at Colton Tower in September of 1980. |
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Post by espeelover on May 25, 2008 15:50:42 GMT -5
This is an SP car and an SP concept, but Cotton Belt had some too and here are two examples, over one hundred numbers apart to prove it. Note the three differing colors of the containers also.  Yaken in September of 1980. |
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Post by espeelover on May 25, 2008 16:20:07 GMT -5
 These were getting scarce in 1980, the all brown were starting to show up, so you took what ya got! |
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Post by espeelover on May 25, 2008 18:06:47 GMT -5
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Post by thespcaboose on May 25, 2008 20:33:19 GMT -5
Good catches!! Nice photos.
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Post by SSW9389 on May 26, 2008 4:51:13 GMT -5
The Cotton Belt and Espee Auto Parts Box Cars used to be part of the pool that brought parts to the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant near Louisville. It has been over five years since I have seen a car like this.  |
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Post by SSW9389 on May 26, 2008 4:55:21 GMT -5
I did not have a secret deal with CSX to spot these long cars so that they could be photographed, just the luck of the draw.  |
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Post by SSW9389 on May 26, 2008 5:14:59 GMT -5
Rolling across the diamond on the wye at O'Bannon, KY is SSW 65097. It's too close to get the whole car in the frame so here are the reporting marks.  |
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Post by espeelover on Jun 3, 2008 16:33:43 GMT -5
I can think of several late steam or early diesel era boxcar paint jobs that are my favorites:
Courteous Service, Phoebe Snow, Rebel Route, Mainline of Mid-America, and so on; but this one
is my favorite of them all. Industry Yard in June of 1978.
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Post by espeelover on Jul 25, 2008 15:02:10 GMT -5
Another SSW Covered Hopper, I never get tired of these little cars. Taken, at speed, in September of 1980 at Walong.
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