Questions, Answers & Tips - 3
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An aerial view at
shows a Trackmobile
handling center-beam flats at the site (partly hidden under
trees with a couple of freight-car-red cars) and reveals a boxy
object along the rails near the chip loader that looks like a car-
puller system for moving cars.
With that data in hand, Titus “remembered seeing these wood-
chip cars on a Flickr group ... I found the answer to my origi-
nal question. On one of the photos the photographer added
a note: ‘At this spot they load these guys up with wood chips
from overhead while a tractor pulls them back and forth with
ropes on a pulley system to evenly fill the cars.’ ”
There is a good photo of a loader at
but none of a
car puller.
3. A Union Pacific freight rolls under a signal bridge on the
nine-mile stretch of two main tracks at Blaser, ID in 1990.
The bridge carries signals for traffic in both directions on
both tracks. Josef Brugger photo.
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