Did I Step Back In Time? Illinois Central, Chessie System, Conrail / New York Central, Etc. Freight Cars

Nice Catch but you also forgot to mention the Early CP rail Rotary Gons at 2.64 min in your video. You can tell these from the dual "porches" and ladders on the ends of the Gon.

I wonder if there are any pre Conrail freight cars still out there in regular service. Like Reading, LV, PC, etc.

Robert K posted:

I wonder if there are any pre Conrail freight cars still out there in regular service. Like Reading, LV, PC, etc.

I seen a faded Jade Green Penn Central covered hopper spotted to go into the NS Decatur, IL. car shop a few weeks ago. I still see a few well weathered Illinois Terminal cars now and then, also.

Rusty

Nice catch Tom

Thanks to everyone who has replied. As to the  ex. rotary gons, I see those quite a lot on CSX freights. So that's why I didn't get a photo of those. But if I do from now on, I'll be sure to get a few pics.

Definitely one of the more interesting catches I've seen in recent memory. Thanks!

I live about 150 yards from a N/S line here. It's common to see cotton Belt, Southern, conrail, Norfolk & Western and others in there freight line up. I need to take some pics. I even seen a few time KCS cars. I enjoy seeing what all is different running by here. About two weeks ago I saw the red and black Santa- Fe engines in the line up coming thru. That was a first for me. First thought it was BNSF but it was definitely SF. 

Thanks for posting

Good job Tom. Always a pleasure seeing your pictures. Thanks for posting. 

Nice pics & vid. I don't remember ever seeing a double door boxcar down here. Even the tank cars seem longer then what I have seen down here. I'll have to pay more attention now.

Great shots and video, a real pleasure to watch.

TOM -

Whenever I am railfanning in the Pittsburgh, PA area,  I always keep a lookout for any odd or Fallen Flag cars on freights. As you know cars pop up here and there and it's cool to catch them. I't suprising how many are still in use today.

I probably have over 100 Fallen Flag pics from the past several years and plan to make myself a DVD of just these cars. It's great to look back on these and would make a moving screen saver of them.

A continued thanks for your postings.

Very cool!

Sorta like a rolling "barn find," to borrow a term from the car collecting and hot rod hobby.

I found myself expecting to see a caboose at the end of the train.  

Except for the bulkhead flatcars, most of it looked like a manifest freight that had been set out on an obscure siding somewhere and forgotten for several decades.

Thanks for sharing.

Alan

rtraincollector posted:

I live about 150 yards from a N/S line here. It's common to see cotton Belt, Southern, conrail, Norfolk & Western and others in there freight line up. I need to take some pics. I even seen a few time KCS cars. I enjoy seeing what all is different running by here. About two weeks ago I saw the red and black Santa- Fe engines in the line up coming thru. That was a first for me. First thought it was BNSF but it was definitely SF. 

 

Thanks for posting

Red and black Santa Fe engines???  Red, silver, yellow and black perhaps?  The old Warbonnet color scheme?

To Tom’s video; I note the reporting marks on the former IC cars makes them private and not railroad owned.  Still; fortunate that whoever owns them now figures paint is the least of his worries.

Curt

Fun to see. Thanks.  While railfanning over the last 10 years or so I've seen New York Central, Pennsylvania, B&O (with the capitol dome logo), C&O, Milwaukee Road, Chessie (quite a few), Illinois Central, and quite a number of others. Even saw an old Alcoa Aluminum hopper once that looked like the MPC-era Lionel version. It's always a highlight to see this stuff. Nice to know some of it is still roaming the rails.