To All: Some railroads installed car capacity signs near some tracks to indicate to trainmen the number of 40 foot cars that particular track would hold. This would be an easy project to do on your pike. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.

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This is part of Weyerhaeuser in Washington state. In the background is a tilted gas tank. I've never seen this before and wondered why you would need to do this. Any ideas? Thanks.

Charles

To All: The position light signal system was used by the Pennsylvania RR ,the Baltimore & Ohio RR and a few other railroads. The dwarf type of this signal was not photographed as much as the high level signal, however. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.

Usually you can see well cars and autorack cars making up a whole train or at least a large cut of it. But sometimes there is a mixed freight with one single well car or one single autorack car in between other cars.

Are they really spotted to a customer at some team track or so which receives only one single container or one single autorack car? Unloading a single well car somewhere should not be too complicated, you only need some crane. But unloading the upper level of an autorack car isn't too easy unless you have the right fixture for it.