The Tie Gang visited the Kansas City Subdivision during the summer of 1973, and the outfit cars were spotted on the Lenexa House Track.
Also of interest is the car ahead. It appears to be one of the round roof heavyweights with fluting added to it. Tony LaLumia
Neat photograph. I am now wondering if I have enough old cars, bits and pieces to model this or come close to it. Looks like the tank is silver and the flat is safety or reefer yellow of some sort? Best Regards,
Those water cars, were silver with black lettering. I do not think there was any yellow. The gang cars were built just good enough to get over the road. They were designed to never go through interchange other railroads, so most all the regulations did not apply. Bill
Yes Tom, sometimes if they derailed, we just rerailed them and rolled them. One time, we were just finished down at Hugo, OK and while the crew was pulling the ramp cars out a trackman left a car block under the cars. Well it derailed, on a curve, cause the Roadmaster, me, got in a hurry. It was a very heavy ice car. While I was trying to rerail it, I noticed it was very heavy and the springs were down a goodly amount. The ice car was supposed to be empty, we were to ship it for new ice. We bought bagged ice to get by. Anyway, I looked into the car and it was completely full of watermelons which the men said were given to them from a nearby field to the tracks. I had seen watermelon rinds all up and down the tracks, but was not privy to the information of the watermelon express.
