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Contrary to the photo caption in Jim Boyd's The American Freight Train, the Nickel Plate owned 10 of these 1962 89-foot Paragon Lo-Hi-Tri autoracks with elevating middle and top decks. A Trailer Train Rack Equipment Register dated 1-1-65 lists the car numbers as ETTX 500706, 500720, 500729, 500735, 500736, 500741, 500768, 500798, 500805, and 500813.
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The Nickel Plate Almost Made it to the Modern Era...
Milepost 917 When I think of the Nickel Plate Road, I really don't think of the modern era of railroading. "Back then," there were no Hi-cubes, no double-stacked container cars and really, not much in the way of unit trains unless you were in a certain geographic area like the coalfields of...
Contrary to the photo caption in Jim Boyd's The American Freight Train, the Nickel Plate owned 10 of these 1962 89-foot Paragon Lo-Hi-Tri autoracks with elevating middle and top decks. A Trailer Train Rack Equipment Register dated 1-1-65 lists the car numbers as ETTX 500706, 500720, 500729, 500735, 500736, 500741, 500768, 500798, 500805, and 500813.
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Black or Blue?
Milepost 989 Quite some time ago, we talked about how the Nickel Plate Road almost made it into the modern era as it was the proud owner of THREE, modern, 89-foot auto racks. As a model project for interested HO scale modelers, the Nickel Plate Historical & Technical Society is going to...
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