Give It To The Andersons, They'll Buy Or Lease Anything

The Andersons seemingly will buy or lease any railcar under the sun and will be damned if they will spend a penny fixing the exterior. Since they handle a lot of organics I presume they keep the interiors of their covered hoppers cleaner than the exteriors.

AEX #4434 X-SQCR #722244 in Glass Service IC-CN Yard Jackson MS Summer 2000

AEX #4430 X-SQCR #722229 in Glass Service IC-CN Yard Jackson MS Summer 2000

In this case, the cars in question are open hoppers of Squaw Creek heritage. These cars were regular visitors to Jackson in glass service. They were typically filled about half-full of green glass (possibly recycled?). Locally, I often saw them parked on a siding at 1350 Flowood drive in Front of what is now Mississippi Warehousing. Back then there were concrete revetments into which the glass was placed. The outline of them can still be seen on the Google map in the link above. That and a number of small businesses have been expunged from their places along the road, but their foundations and outline of the business remain as do tank supports. All of this is near the NUCOR steel facility. BTW, that facility has an SW-series switcher (green), an SW-1 (yellow), and a centercab switcher (green) working inside, all of which are visible using the Google link and zooming in.

Back up Flowood Drive, the rail line (since removed) serving the area crossed the busy road and an IC van used to sit parked on the tracks by the levee. Unfortunately-and I don't know why-I never stopped to photograph it. There was a pivoting metal gate that blocked the line when it was not in use. I believe (though I may be wrong) that this was a GM&O branch; I followed the abandoned ROW on the Google map back across a collapsed truss bridge to where it connects into what is now the KCS line near the abandoned lead to the former GM&O yard which now lies beneath the fair grounds.

More examples of The Anderson's rail car promiscuity (they have a fleet of 24,000 cars) and lack of concern for image:

AEX #903 X-SOU HCS 60 3-Bay Covered Hopper on CSX Almonaster Avenue New Orleans 1997



AEX #951 X-WP aluminum 3-bay covered hopper in a manifest freight north across 10th Street from NS Brosnan Yard Macon GA 10-21-11

AEX #16221 X-Alberta City Farmers 4750cf PS2-CD in a manifest freight north across 10th Street from NS Brosnan Yard Macon GA 10-21-11