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This coil car is hauling steel rolls, as are the uncovered coil cars in front.Ĭoil cars are made weather-proof, since steel becomes quickly vulnerable to oxidation, once it leaves from where it’s manufactured. The steel rolls are manufactured mostly for the automobile industries. Various types of wire also are hauled in roll-form with the coil car.

KCS, now hauls many coil cars to Kansas City and points north from old Mexico, thus you can determine the direction of your train when you’re in Shreveport’s Caddo Yards in Louisiana.Ĭoil cars are used to transport rolls of steel. This is a “coil car” I rode behind from Beaumont, Texas, to Shreveport, Louisiana, while riding “KCS”.

Now, you take the square spike and place it into the square hole of the car carrier door and turn counter clockwise and voila, your auto-rack door opens, then you can load up inside and ride in style! This is a railroad plate with spike poked through the square hole in the plate. This is what it looks like to ride inside an empty “auto-rack” rail car! (There are no vehicles loaded inside this rail car, so I had all this room to walk about). Each end of this rail car has two large doors that swing open if you can make the right make-shift chuck-&-key to get in, that is! This here is an auto-rack rail car, also. They make for a really nice ride being that they are difficult to get into, thus the bull never thinks there will be anybody inside and avoids checking! It makes for a great ride with the stereo and the heat or air conditioning blasting! Mostly though, I only ride when these rail cars are empty. Once you’re inside, each vehicle has its key in the ignition. When these rail cars are loaded with new vehicles, they are locked with thick shank-seals, thus getting inside these rail cars is next to impossible, but can be done. Hunting is caused by empty cars that sway back and forth on the tracks jarring you in every way! By riding in an insulated boxcar, you lessen the chance of hunting because these boxcars are heavier, thus the hunting is not as bad.Ĭar carriers can be ridden if you know what you are doing. Some boxcar “hunt” really bad on the tracks. (Notice my seat inside)? I was able to load this chair inside when we stopped to let another train pass. I rode inside here from Clinton, Iowa, to Peoria, Illinois. Me here trying to open my boxcar door a bit more before hopping up inside. This is the boxcar I rode from Shreveport, Louisiana, to Kansas City, Missouri. Me, inside the doorway of my boxcar when the outside temperature was 10 degrees below zero! From frozen orange juice to bagged concrete the boxcar hauls it all. Boxcars haul almost anything and everything.

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