NOPB #4316 50' FMC SDR box car on CSX at Arts and Agriculture Streets NOLA 09-09-1995
By the mid-1990s most of the NOPB peaches had left the roster, some repainted and others receiving only new reporting marks. The FMC-built cars kept the peach color much better than the PS-built cars which tended to turn yellow with time and some of which looked as much orange as peach.
TASD #79001 X-NOPB FMC 50' SDR box car at Elaine Avenue in CSX Gentilly Yard NOLA 04-02-1996
HS #5301 X- NOPB 50' PS SDR box car on CSX at Elaine Avenue NOLA 12-23-1995
HS #5322 X- NOPB 50' PS SDR box car on CSX at Elaine Avenue NOLA 12-23-1995
QGRY #77029 50' FMC XP Plug Box Car [Possibly X-NOPB] on NS in Bellevue, OH 08-2005
The Pacific Northwest region provided many of the cars the NOPB picked up.
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NOPB #6427 X-SCNT FMC 52' DBL-SDR box car on CSX siding south of Almonaster Avenue below Jourdan Road flyover New Orleans LA 04-1995
NOPB #6401 X-McCloud FMC DBL-SDR box car in the CSX Gentilly Yard at Elaine Ave 11-12-1995
NOPB #6424 X-McCloud FMC 52' XP DBL-DR Box Car on NS North through Oliver Junction NOLA 05-18-1996
NOPB #6428 X-McCloud FMC 52' XP DBL-DR Box Car on NS North through Oliver Junction NOLA 05-18-1996
NOPB #6448 X-McCloud FMC 52' XP DBL-DR Box Car on NS North through Oliver Junction NOLA 05-18-1996
X-RBOX cars also made an appearance on the NOPB box roster.
NOPB #5005 X-RBOX 50' FMC SDR box car at Jourdan Road in CSX Gentilly Yard NOLA 04-02-1996
NOPB #5010 X-RBOX 50' Berwick SDR box car CSX Gentilly Yard 01-14-1996
The NOPB then picked up a number of X-Southern 50' sliding-door, exterior-post box cars.
NOPB #7025 X-SOU PS 50' SDR box car south on NS through Oliver Junction NOLA Summer 2000
NOPB #7031 X-SOU PS 50' SDR box car south on NS through Oliver Junction NOLA Summer 2000
NOPB #7090 X-SOU PS 50' SDR box car south on NS through Oliver Junction NOLA Summer 2000
NOPB #7056 50' Exterior-Post Box Car X-SOU NS Oliver Junction New Orleans 04-09-1998
The April 2001 ORER showed only one of the 6400-6449 remaining on the roster, so it appears that the acquisition of the 7000-series cars ended the X-MR and X-SNCT cars' time on NOPB's roster. Another contributing factor was the low tonnage capacity of the FMC double-sliding-door box cars.
ReplyDeleteFrom a 2006 Train Orders post: "There are not many of these cars out and about anymore. There does not appear to be much of a market for 70-ton boxcars other than for scrap. Itel sold all of their rolling stock fleet, totalling around 70,000 cars (including all of McCloud's FMC boxcars) to a subsidiary of GE Capital in late 1991/early 1992. A number of the McCloud boxcars got painted up and re-lettered for the Texas Oklahoma & Eastern in the early 1990's...the rest of the cars sit on various sidings on the McCloud Railway awaiting their fate. In addition to the ex-McCloud cars you can also find boxcars formerly belonging to the Camino Placerville & Lake Taho, Ahnapee & Western, City of Prineville, Seattle & North Coast, Sierra, and some other roads on the McCloud, almost all of them with the original owner's name and logo but with MR reporting marks and numbers.
If you make it into McCloud you will still find the brown and white cars...there are a few in the main yard area, some more at the "run around" equipment storage yard just east of town, a whole bunch on the remnant of the Pondosa branch, and at least a few in a string that at last report was somewhere around Car A. However, John West reports that some of these cars are being sold for scrap and are starting to leave the railroad, so you may not want to wait too long before going for pictures."
Pots by: Jeff Moore Elko, NV
Jeff Moore's web site has an excellent wrap-up on what happened to the MR 'bear cars' and their litter mates. http://www.trainweb.org/mccloudrails/Equipment/Boxcars.html
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