Help Me Identify This Rolling Stock

rocknblues · May 09, 2008, 12:41:07 PM

I have seen these railcars in the local rail yard, and in some videos that I haven't been able to identify and would like to know what it is called and what it is used for. Description: Flat car, no sides, has a "truss like" structure running down the middle. From a side view looks almost like a Warren truss bridge sitting on a flat car. The view from the top would look like an "I" beam running down the middle of the flat car. I hope this description helps. I have just been referring to myself in my mind as a Truss car. What is it's correct name and what is it used for? Thanks.

jayl1 · May 09, 2008, 01:10:33 PM

This could be a welded rail carrying car - just a guess. Any chance you could post a photo?

rocknblues · May 09, 2008, 01:51:56 PM

The 3 minute mark on this video shows what they look like.
The video didnt work. I will going to town today, I will try and take a pic of the car.

RAM · May 09, 2008, 02:57:21 PM

I wonder if it might be some type of Centerbeam or bulkhead flatcars.

Guilford Guy · May 09, 2008, 03:27:34 PM

Woody Elmore · May 09, 2008, 05:34:10 PM

Isn't it some kind of fancy pulpwood car?

rocknblues · May 09, 2008, 06:15:53 PM

Yes thats it! My wife is such a trooper, this is our 28 wedding anniversary and she is out with me taking pictures of rolling stock. That could be what it is used for. I also took some pics of a SF loco, BNSF loco, from our rail yard in WI. I posted those on Sante Fe Bluffs favorite picture page.

Guilford Guy · May 09, 2008, 07:21:58 PM

Centerbeams, they are used to haul Lumber to Lumber Distributors...

rocknblues · May 09, 2008, 08:24:34 PM

Thank you very much.

Santa Fe buff · May 09, 2008, 09:37:22 PM

They pack the pacages along the sides, the beam in the middle keeps the stuff from knocking the other side over. I seem them almost everyday!

Quote from: rocknblues on May 09, 2008, 06:15:53 PM
Yes thats it! My wife is such a trooper, this is our 28 wedding anniversary and she is out with me taking pictures of rolling stock. That could be what it is used for. I also took some pics of a SF loco, BNSF loco, from our rail yard in WI. I posted those on Sante Fe Bluffs favorite picture page.

~that's Santa Fe buff, It's okay, I did mistakes too, I don't know if GG knows I spelt his name 2 times wrong.

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