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- From: cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam)
- Subject: Re: High Speed Rail Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.002604.11657@ee.ryerson.ca>
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- Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
- References: <1992Dec30.040339.1565@ee.ryerson.ca> <6216@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:26:04 GMT
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- > [in response to a comment about long lengths of rail, I mentioned
- > that I believed that rail actually came in 1/4 mile lengths]
-
- rrw@sunset.cse.nau.edu (Bob Wier) writes:
- > Yup - I've seen this here in Flagstaff in/around the Santa Fe Maintanence
- > yard. The rolling stock (at least here) consists of cars which basically
- > look like pipe racks (painted white). I saw one on the move (didn't hae
- > a camera - darn!).
-
- While on vacation in April 1990, my family and I visited the Spencer Shops
- north-east of Charlotte NC. While on the rail trip around the facilities,
- a string of these cars were pointed out to us. They appeared as flat cars
- with pipe racks as described above, although the Southern painted theirs
- yellow.
-
- Somewhere I have photos of both individual cars and a full string (as best
- as can be taken) that I took then. Now if only I had a colour scanner.
-
-
- Calvin Henry-Cotnam, CATE | "...My brain IBM"
- Ryerson Polytechnical Institute | "So if you see me, acting stangely..."
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada | STYX, Mr. Roboto
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