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Wow! Totally blown away! Those are absolutely amazing.
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Rolling with recently refurbished twin-45 flats, one of the recently inaugurated Peregrine intermodal trains blasts westbound nearing Columbus, Ohio on its way to Chicago in 1984. Competition with highways is steep and ever growing, prompting the railroad to have to exert a higher focus on retaining its trailer traffic while adding containers to its portfolio. Newly branded, recently legalized nationwide 45ft trailers adorn their namesake trains - Peregrine started as simple branding to impress upon customers speedy service, but would later grow to be a subsidiary corporation for the railroads entry into RoadRailer just a few short years later. TOFC service became largely - though not totally - replaced by containers and a select amount of RoadRailer routes throughout the late 80s and 90s.
Local freights in the West Virginia Division were quite the hodgepodge. Intradivisional K801 has with it mostly cars that will end up in the handful of local industries along the division - even the big autoparts boxes have homes out this way. Sand, plastic pellets, ammonium nitrate, lumber, and more make up a typical job out this way. SLRR 3575 has all that well under control at CP Victory, near Grantsville, where it will soon begin an uphill slog on its journey south.
Autoparts traffic rapidly became one of the hot commodities for the railroad in its midwestern routes. Though hotly contested by the Wabash and later N&W, later still NS, the company got its fair share of auto traffic - especially after its 1976 purchase of the DT&I. SLRR 9109 trails second and shows signs of its DT&I heritage with its spark arrestors and distinct lack of dynamic brakes. Plenty of 86ft flat panel boxcars joined the roster on that acquisition (over 800!), though the SLRR still had its own orders out for more. A still clean 1977-delivered Class B90 boxcar from Greenville Steel is first out, with a dozen patched out DTI cars deeper in the train mixed in with other railroads cars. In later years, dedicated trains built from just 86 footers and a few 60 footers began to disappear as RoadRailer trains took up the just-in-time autoparts side of things and the oldest boxcars reached their end-of-life, leaving the big flat panels relegated to joining typical long manifests. Still, long lines of the giant boxcars have remained a mainstay from the 60s onwards, even to today, just a little less colourful and a little slower than they once were.
Cheers,
SM
Local freights in the West Virginia Division were quite the hodgepodge. Intradivisional K801 has with it mostly cars that will end up in the handful of local industries along the division - even the big autoparts boxes have homes out this way. Sand, plastic pellets, ammonium nitrate, lumber, and more make up a typical job out this way. SLRR 3575 has all that well under control at CP Victory, near Grantsville, where it will soon begin an uphill slog on its journey south.
Autoparts traffic rapidly became one of the hot commodities for the railroad in its midwestern routes. Though hotly contested by the Wabash and later N&W, later still NS, the company got its fair share of auto traffic - especially after its 1976 purchase of the DT&I. SLRR 9109 trails second and shows signs of its DT&I heritage with its spark arrestors and distinct lack of dynamic brakes. Plenty of 86ft flat panel boxcars joined the roster on that acquisition (over 800!), though the SLRR still had its own orders out for more. A still clean 1977-delivered Class B90 boxcar from Greenville Steel is first out, with a dozen patched out DTI cars deeper in the train mixed in with other railroads cars. In later years, dedicated trains built from just 86 footers and a few 60 footers began to disappear as RoadRailer trains took up the just-in-time autoparts side of things and the oldest boxcars reached their end-of-life, leaving the big flat panels relegated to joining typical long manifests. Still, long lines of the giant boxcars have remained a mainstay from the 60s onwards, even to today, just a little less colourful and a little slower than they once were.
Cheers,
SM
