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October 27, 2015 at 1:41 am #5559peggyrothschildParticipant
Not the best quality movie but it’s better than none at all…plus no graffiti spray paint anywhere.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8v9vkEQXzJ0October 27, 2015 at 2:12 pm #7393James PruittParticipantThat is a pretty good video. Yes, the quality is not so great, BUT there is a whole lot of interesting freight cars in there. I saw a Lehigh Valley X58. Very cool and then there was a brief glimpse of an odd (I think) cement car. It had three separate round containers all connected together. It was read and white. I have seen this car before.
Brian
October 27, 2015 at 2:29 pm #7394bargetanikaParticipantI’m going to watch this show several times more. I never thought I’d be sentimental about the Jenks Blue era.
All those cabooses! F-units! Alco RS’s! GP 18s with Alco trucks! Tank cars with domes! All those fallen flags! Buzz saws everywhere! Friendly crews waving! Work trains with passenger cars!
That 3 tank cement car looked like an athearn flat car with a “load”.
Trailers on flat cars, which I never thought I’d be sentimental about, are a thing of the past.
What is that grey thing that flashes by for a milli second at 3:10? Looks like a tender with portholes added.
October 27, 2015 at 3:50 pm #7395alexortiz25Participant@Patrick wrote:
What is that grey thing that flashes by for a milli second at 3:10? Looks like a tender with portholes added.
Looks to be an passenger car, perhaps a diner due to the side door, now in MOW service. May not even be Mop as there were a few clips of Frisco equipment in the film.
I’d like to know the area where this was filmed and date(s). Must have been over several years as there are full F-unit lash-ups (pre-1972?) as well as locomotives in the last Jenks blue scheme (buzzsaw Eagle) and the 1974 re-numbering. Also saw de-turbo’d GP35’s which would be later. And a quick shot of an Amtrak SDP40F.
October 27, 2015 at 11:45 pm #7396bargetanikaParticipantI also saw, several times, a tank car right in front of the caboose.
October 28, 2015 at 4:11 pm #7397Dennis FairclothParticipantThe video description says this footage was shot around Claremore (OK) which accounts for the Frisco action, and also on the southern Illinois joint line, which would be the MP-SSW Dupo-Illmo route.
The red & white 3-silo car is a Halliburton car for transporting dry bulk ingredients for oil well drilling mud.
There was and is no restriction on having tank cars next to a caboose…the restriction is if cars contain certain hazardous materials.
This is indeed great footage….kudos to the filmographer for capturing freight cars as well as locomotives.
October 30, 2015 at 12:31 am #7404clemmie_doris12ParticipantI believe the gray car, a former passenger coach, has been converted to a weed sprayer control car. Look at the piping below the side sheets.
November 7, 2015 at 8:36 pm #7462Thomas HobackParticipantBrief glimpse of the last hurrah for covered wagons on the Frisco; if I remember correctly, all were gone by the time I started in ’74.
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