[RITSlist] Why? TTPX flat #80570

[Jim Eager]

Steven Suhs wrote:
> I'll add my 2 cents worth and it is just guess work but possibly  
> logical.

Possibly, but why guess and conjecture when we know for a fact that  
the practice officially existed? We know that Trailer Train cars that  
are assigned long-term to specific roads are leased by those roads,  
and we know that in the 1960s a few that were on long-term lease had  
railroad heralds, logos, initials or even paint applied. I provided  
several examples yesterday. Although the practice did not last long,  
cars marked this way could be seen long after the practice ended. For  
example, I shot chain flat OTTX 97044 with a load of Massey Ferguson  
combines in 1985, still with a small Rock Island shield on its side  
sill, same as on TTPX 80570's bulkhead.

Here are some more specific examples:
PTTX 92251, 92266, 92270, wallboard bulkhead flats with stacked B&O  
initials, three of several such cars leased to and marked for the B&O
<http://gelwood.railfan.net/ttx/pttx92266akg.jpg>
<http://gelwood.railfan.net/ttx/pttx92270alb.jpg>
RTTX 477119, an 89ft flat painted Wabash blue with standard white  
Trailer Train lettering, and a blue Wabash-marked  trilevel auto rack
RTTX 911395, same
RTTX 911558, same
BTTX 910212, same, but this one was a bilevel
BTTX 911415, same
BTTX (number unreadable), same, but with an N&W-marked bilevel  
(probably ex-Wabash)
BTTX 910720, an 89ft flat painted Frisco yellow with black (reverse)  
Trailer Train lettering, and a yellow Frisco-marked bilevel auto rack
TTBX 930924, same
RTTX 911938(?), same but a trilevel

I don't keep track of double-stack well cars, but I do know that  
there were DTTX wells in full Trailer Train paint with railroad  
heralds, logos or initials, so the practice was revived in the  
1980s-90s.

Jim Eager <jeager at sympatico.ca>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada




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