Just a couple of pictures

[SergeantC]

I took these pictures about 2 1/2 years ago. I think this is rather a sad end for a freight wagon.

Can anyone tell me anything about this wagon? I'm especially interested to know what country might have designed or built it.

 

[axe1970]

Nice work.

 

[freightcar2]

The poor little wagon...:'(

Nice pictures

 

[bernhart_lossiemouth]

It should by flown to the moon where it will not erode or rust any more. It shall remind all mankind that trains created us and rule over us.

 

[Tokkyu40]

Does anyone recognize the lettering? Being American, I see US R in that. What do other people see?

Claude

 

[freightcar2]

Does anyone recognize the lettering? Being American, I see US R in that. What do other people see?

Claude

I can't make it out ! :hehe:

 

[bdaneal]

That looks like a German boxcar, unless other countries added the brakeman cabin on their boxcars, also.

This wouldn't happen to be taken in Israel, would it? (ISR - Israeli State Railways?)

I don't see why everyone says that's in sad shape. It isn't rusting through, it's just loosing its paint. Easily restored, if there was someone to do it.

Cheers,
Ben

 

[lewisner]

How about USSR , for those who remember it?

 

[SergeantC]

Actually, I took those pictures in Iraq. That wagon was sitting in the middle of the FOB in Baghdad that I was stationed at. The odd thing about it was that there was no evidence of any rails. If you look at the pictures, the wagon seems to be sitting on top of the sand.

And sometime after I took these pictures, the wagon disappeared. I have no idea if it was restored and returned to revenue service, or if it was scrapped.

Thanks for the comments and replies. I always found it odd that the thing was just sitting rusting away outside my barracks (which you can see in the background,) with no sign of a rail line nearby.

 

[WileeCoyote]

It looks, oddly enough, like a German G10 with steel panels in place of the normal wood. I also see the U.S. R thing on the side.

Do you perchance have any other photographs of Iraqi railroads and their respective equipment?

WileeCoyote

 

[Tokkyu40]

So it's probably Iraqi State Railroad.

Claude

 

[SergeantC]

Do you perchance have any other photographs of Iraqi railroads and their respective equipment?

WileeCoyote

Unfortunately, no. Just a few pictures of that wagon. My job in the military did not put me anywhere where I could see any Iraqi railroads.