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weed burning rail car june 1941, Texas


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regardless of the info about the "Derail" the above video is useless at showing the derail

See the below video instead. The above is good for admiring the big ol trains though. One axel slipped off, no big deal. It moved a couple of feet, did no damage to anything.

 

Nancy and Dennis looked at the recent mailcar post http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/01/way-back-when-us-post-office-was.html and commented about this very action you see above you,

 the mail was transferred when the train did not stop in a town.

when the train came through it would leave a bag on the first one and pick the bag off the second one. 

 I vividly recall going with my Grandfather to the train station in Canton, NY in the early 50's: he would hang a mail bag on one of the posts, then the train would come through without slowing down, and BLAM - BLAM! The bag he hung would be gone and another bag would be swinging on the other hook!

Photos from http://www.hagopgaragem.com/

 as rare that a mail car is, there is another in this same county... in the Escondido Grape Day Park

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/escondidos-santa-fe-train-depot-and.html

 

I think these are two of the 3 that were quite recently combined to make one residence in El Cajon

It is empty in these photos because I got there about closing time.












From their website, a McDonalds in Barstow (California on route 66, at the intersection of Interstates 40 and 15)  was the biggest in the world in the 1970's, and a guy bought it, plus bought the railroad cars, and put together 17 cars. He made the combined cars connected to use as a multi restaurant establishment, and now it has a Panda Express, McDonalds, Greyhound Bus line, a liquor store and a ice cream store. http://www.barstowstation.net/