Just saw a MOP buzz saw

[edwardsutorik]

I was just driving on the freeway and passed an ACF style covered hopper with the MP buzz saw on the side. It still had its MP reporting mark. I didn't get the number. It seems likely it is a 4600 cu ft car, built between 1973 and 1976. In my January 2020 ORER, there are 138 candidates for this car.

There was an additional batch of 4600's built in 1980, with the eagle.

A car in its original paint 45+ years later. Since the eagle scheme arrived only a few years after these cars were built, it is very unlikely I saw a repaint.


Ed

[riogrande]

It's like a time machine to see something like that nowadays. Very cool.

[edwardsutorik]

While I was pokin' around in the 2020 ORER, I found that there was still one entry for one of the original pre-BN railroads.

NP 66110-66229 (3 cars)--built September of 1969, 60 foot flats, painted in NP green (the lighter BN-style green).

They look to be one-piece metal castings, and those are very good at lasting a long time.

Over 50 years old!


Ed

[csxt8400]

We still have a few cars lettered GN and CBQ. Gons mostly, handful of four bay coal cars for MOW make up most of the CBQ sightings.

[thejadefog]

That's cool to see an old relic like that. From time to time here in Eastern PA, I have seen old Penn Central covered hoppers soldiering on. They have been patched over several times, but the original lettering and worms just won't quit and always bleed through!