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MONON Trains => Rolling Stock => Topic started by: Vern Sargent on April 18, 2013, 09:12:41 pm

Title: Surely at Shops
Post by: Vern Sargent on April 18, 2013, 09:12:41 pm

I happened across this while googling around the internet. There was no mention of the photographer.  Vern @ G.

Title: Re: Surely at Shops
Post by: George Lortz on April 19, 2013, 09:52:52 am

Vern,

Thanks for sharing this.  I think that is a Monon container car at the immediate left.  Too bad we can't see the lettering.  Photos of the container cars are hard to find.

BTW, stop calling us Shirley!!

George L.

Title: Re: Surely at Shops
Post by: Robert Gibson on April 19, 2013, 09:14:57 pm

Looks like a coke car.

Title: Re: Surely at Shops
Post by: Ron Marquardt on April 19, 2013, 09:28:30 pm

George and all, that's a Dick Fontaine photo, but I can't figure out why it never made his CD's, or never made it into the database??  No doubt floating around somewhere in cyberspace.  / Ron

Title: Re: Surely at Shops
Post by: John Butler on April 27, 2013, 09:50:37 pm

What are they burning?  Is that for hot rivets?  It looks like they are replacing a truck, can anybody tell me what is going on here with more detail?

Title: Re: Surely at Shops
Post by: John Butler on April 27, 2013, 09:52:33 pm

Also note the rainbow of Monon boxcars, everything from red to almost charcoal grey.

Title: Re: Surely at Shops
Post by: Ron Marquardt on April 27, 2013, 11:17:25 pm

John, it was taken in January 1969, so they may have started a trash fire to keep warm.  They've rolled the truck out from under the gon, and replaced a set of wheels on it.  You can see the new wheels and axle on the right.  They would have then rolled it back under the car, and hooked the brake system back up.  / Ron

Title: Re: Surely at Shops
Post by: Gene Remaly on April 28, 2013, 11:21:14 am

AH, the knowledge of a rip track worker--- they could have burned journal box waste for more heat, but the black smoke came off that in little black curly thingies.