Auto Frame 89' Flat Cars

I only got back into railfanning the last few months I was in Louisville so I didn't get that many photos of auto traffic. However, when I was in Dearborn I lived literally across the street from a GTW yard just outside the Ford River Rouge plant.

One of the more interesting loads I photographed were flat cars in auto/truck frame service. There were long strings of 60' flat cars in this service, but in the years immediately following 9/11 large manufacturing facilities were overzealous about keeping railfans away so I didn't get to shoot any of the 60' cars. I was lucky enough to get several 89' cars in this services. The cars had the frames stack and then strapped in place. Large metal baskets/boxes of smaller related parts traveling with them. This is a car I will have have at least one model of.

FTTX #58371 89' Flat Car with Auto Frame Load CSX Louisville KY Fall 1994

FTTX 900089 89' Flat Car with Frame Load on GTW at River Rouge Plant Melvindale MI Early 2005

FTTX 922089 89' Flat Car Box Rack Detail on GTW at River Rouge Plant Melvindale MI Early 2005

FTTX 922089 89' Flat Car with Frame Load on GTW at River Rouge Plant Melvindale MI Early 2005

FTTX 963391 89' Flat Car Frame Load Detail on GTW at River Rouge Plant Melvindale MI 2 Early 2005 

 FTTX 963391 89' Flat Car Frame Load Detail on GTW at River Rouge Plant Melvindale MI Early 2005

FTTX 96630 in auto frame service Side View on GTW at River Rouge Plant Melvindale MI Summer 2005

FTTX 96630 in auto frame service on GTW at River Rouge Plant Melvindale MI Summer 2005

FTTX 972304 in auto frame service on GTW at River Rouge Plant Melvindale MI Summer 2005