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Two styles |
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Two paint schemes for JB Hunt, one with "Intermodal" spelled out, the other more basic |
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9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/6/2023 6:16:17 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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Past the station |
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A five pack of JB Hunt boxes rolls past the Railrunner station at Belen. |
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9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/6/2023 6:20:51 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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Title: |
Steamship boxes |
Description: |
On an eastbound train on the Transcon. |
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9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/7/2023 5:34:44 AM |
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Rio Puerco, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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56 Comments: 1 |
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TOFC |
Description: |
Something you see only occasionally in this double stack age is a trailer on flat car. Heres one of JBs. headed east. |
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9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/7/2023 5:41:15 AM |
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Rio Puerco, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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64 Comments: 1 |
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Amazon and FEC |
Description: |
FEC has a lot of trailer flats and well cars. One of them is here on the Transcon with a pair of Amazon boxes headed for California. |
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9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/7/2023 6:06:51 AM |
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Rio Puerco, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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77 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Spine car, part 1 |
Description: |
A JB Hunt box rides on a five platform spine car. In todays stack train world, these are not as common as they once were. |
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9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/7/2023 6:09:10 AM |
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Rio Puerco, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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28 Comments: 1 |
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Spine car, part 2 |
Description: |
Another JB Hunt box, another spine car. See comment from Mike Berka, below, on builder info. |
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9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/7/2023 6:11:03 AM |
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Rio Puerco, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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56 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Spine car, part 3 |
Description: |
Another version of a JB Hunt box on the same set of platforms. |
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9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/7/2023 6:16:32 AM |
Location: |
Rio Puerco, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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31 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Last one, for now |
Description: |
Another JB Hunt box heads |
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9/18/2023 Upload Date: 10/7/2023 6:18:46 AM |
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Rio Puerco, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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41 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Where the buffalo roam |
Description: |
A number of trucking companies have embraced intermodal, first the big guys, JB Hunt, which got involved in a big way in 1990, and now has almost 100,000 containers, as well as Schneider National, which also has many thousands. Later on, some others joined, among them Swift and Wal Mart, and even Amazon, which is making a big investment in COFC, judging by a recent trip to the Transconn in New Mexico. Even some of the smaller companies are now going intermodal, witness this Bison container riding n CPKC train 181 at Anderson MO. |
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10/8/2023 Upload Date: 10/11/2023 4:48:38 AM |
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Anderson, MO |
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Tom Beckett |
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Title: |
Two big guys |
Description: |
Original pig train user Schneider rides the top of the stack, relative newcomer Swift-theyre Swift-Knight now-I wonder if they turned their truck speeds up to make those Swift Knights any faster, Swift for a long time restricted their trucks to 55 MPH, even out west, with its 75 MPH speed limits-on CPKC train 181. |
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10/8/2023 Upload Date: 10/11/2023 4:52:48 AM |
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Anderson, MO |
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Tom Beckett |
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Title: |
Pair of bison |
Description: |
There was a herd of them on this train!! The Yanke container is sublettered for Bison Transportation, as you can see on the end of the box. Riding on CPKC 181. |
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10/8/2023 Upload Date: 10/11/2023 5:27:27 AM |
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Anderson, MO |
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Tom Beckett |
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66 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Still on top |
Description: |
Another stack with a Schneider box atop a Swift box on 181 |
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10/8/2023 Upload Date: 10/11/2023 5:28:39 AM |
Location: |
Anderson, MO |
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Tom Beckett |
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57 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Herd of buffalo |
Description: |
Canadian truckload carrier has also embraced intermodal, a pair of their boxes rolling north on the 181 train at Siloam Springs. |
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12/6/2023 Upload Date: 12/30/2023 6:30:17 AM |
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Siloam Springs, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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25 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
STG Logistics |
Description: |
Another of the many third party logistics providers is STG Logistics, two of whose containers are eastbound on the ex SP near Santa Rosa NM. The XPO initials would seem to indicate an affiliation with LTL carrier XPO. |
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12/8/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 4:34:03 AM |
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Santa Rosa, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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77 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Prime boxes |
Description: |
A good number of truck lines have gotten into intermodal. Not to the extent of the likes of JB Hunt, which books 2 million rail loads annually, but enough now that you see a good variety of truckers on the rails, such as these Prime boxes at Belen. |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 12/29/2023 5:56:24 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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54 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Opposing boxes |
Description: |
This pair of JB Hunt containers is facing in opposite directions; they have each others backs on this weswtbound BNSF train at Belen. |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 5:07:29 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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51 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Smile-youre getting stuff |
Description: |
A pair of Amazon containers smiles at us from a westbound stack train on BNSF. Lots of Christmas goodies in there!! |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 5:26:54 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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71 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Going my way?? |
Description: |
It would be funny if these boxes were both going to the same Wal Mart DC, given that JB Hunt is probably Wal Marts #1 inbound carrier. Both boxes going west on BNSF at Belen. |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 5:47:13 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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34 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
COFC Logistics |
Description: |
One blue, one gray, riding west on BNSF |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 5:53:31 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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66 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MX Solutions |
Description: |
Another unfamiliar name, MX Solutions, rides atop a JB Hunt box headed west at Belen |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 5:55:36 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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57 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Reefer |
Description: |
JB Hunt, a dozen years ago, acquired a small fleet of refrigerated containers. They never amounted to a large part of their business while I worked there, retiring in 2014. I must have seen several dozen of these this trip, so theyve grown that business substantially in the past ten years. This one is eastbound at Belen |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 6:02:21 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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44 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Fed up |
Description: |
A Fed Ex box rides in the "up" position on this stack car, westbound on BNSF at Belen. |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 6:06:32 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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58 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
JB reefer |
Description: |
A JB Hunt reefer box rides atop one of their thousands of steel containers, going west at Belen. |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2024 6:29:38 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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32 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
KLLM |
Description: |
Another truck line that has gone in on the intermodal plan is KLLM. We see one of their boxes atop a Prime box, westbound at Belen. |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2024 6:32:09 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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83 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Amazon smile |
Description: |
A pair of Amazon containers roll west at Belen. |
Photo Date: |
12/9/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 4:13:15 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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71 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Fed Ex pair |
Description: |
Fed Ex, which had been a big TOFC customer, has in recent years gone to containers. A pair are riding west on an FEC platform at Belen |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 4:38:43 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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85 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Bringing the savings to you |
Description: |
A group of Wal Mart containers rolls east at Belen. Christmas is coming!! |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 4:43:11 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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Title: |
Still a lot of TOFC |
Description: |
One of the-still-big users of the TOFC mode is UPS, who, though theyve gone to a good sized fleet of 28 foot containers, still uses TOFC, putting pups on the train all over the BNSF system. These spine cars are built to accommodate two 28 foot trailers.These are heading into the yard on an eastbound. |
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12/9/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 5:14:47 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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45 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Cronos box |
Description: |
This Cronos container is riding atop a Mediterranean Shipping box going west at Belen |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 12/29/2023 6:10:22 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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48 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Mixed message |
Description: |
Typically, you dont see domestic containers mated with steamship line boxes-the widths are different, 96" for ocean going, 102" mostly, for domestic, though ocean going boxes are generally 20 or 40 foot. This 53 footer may be intended for US domestic use, and 102". Nevertheless, I saw this mix quite a bit this trip. This pair was on an eastbound at Belen |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 12/30/2023 6:05:27 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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35 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Another mismatch |
Description: |
A JB Hunt box atop a Triton overseas container at Belen, headed east. |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 12/30/2023 6:11:47 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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31 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
U Line |
Description: |
JB Hunt has a number of these 53 foot steel boxes painted for U Line, a shipping supply comany. This one is eastbound on BNSF at Belen |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 5:31:53 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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Title: |
Milestone |
Description: |
There are a number of newer entries into the domestic container business, such as these Milestone boxes on an eastbound at Belen |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 5:36:07 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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Title: |
New chassis. |
Description: |
How else to ship them from the biulder?? On a stack train, of course. These are going to NS. |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 5:40:02 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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Title: |
Open door policy |
Description: |
This COFC Logistics container was arriving on an eastbound stack train, with one door open. Presumably it would be inspected at the yard, and the door resealed. I wonder what is blowing around the desert in Arizona and New Mexico, and how much of it. |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 5:52:15 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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Title: |
Tank-tainer |
Description: |
Bulk liquids are shipped in these 20 foot tanks. I dont think Ive4 ever seen one of these in any length over 20 foot, probably because it would go overweight if it was filled. This one was on a BNSF eastbound. |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2024 6:20:49 AM |
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Belen, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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27 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Bringing low prices to you |
Description: |
A group of Wal Mart boxes headed east at Belen. Christmas is coming!! |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2024 6:22:41 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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47 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Gunderson cars |
Description: |
A set of Gunderson stack cars rolls west at Belen. These were once everywhere-theb NYSW, among others, had a sizeable fleet with their own reporting marks. Dont see too many of them any more., |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 4:48:11 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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41 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CO/TOFC |
Description: |
A CH Robinson container on a chassis rolls east at Belen. Why not just lift the box off the chassis?? |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 4:50:29 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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86 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Run, run, run |
Description: |
A RunRail container rides a spine car on an estbound at Belen. |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 5:03:19 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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74 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Dont see many of these any more |
Description: |
A JB Hunt plateside container rides west on the Transcon. Before they went big into steel containers, there were a sizeable number of these in the fleet. The newest is now about 20 years old, and is riding on one of its newer steel cousins |
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12/10/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 5:05:30 AM |
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Belen, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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51 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Seagoing boxes |
Description: |
This pair of oceangoing containers was on a westbound at Mountainair. |
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12/11/2023 Upload Date: 12/29/2023 6:00:54 AM |
Location: |
Mountainair, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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Title: |
Estes gets into the container action |
Description: |
Another truckload carrier, Estes, also now has a fleet of steel containers. This one is westbound at Mountainair. |
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12/11/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 5:12:14 AM |
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Mountainair, NM |
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Tom Beckett |
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45 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
COSCO |
Description: |
COSCO is the acronym for China Overseas Shipping Co, which sends many containers into the US, many of which wind up on the BNSF, as here on an eastbound in Miami Tex. |
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12/12/2023 Upload Date: 12/29/2023 6:13:31 AM |
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Miami, TX |
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Tom Beckett |
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40 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Old style |
Description: |
A COSCO container in the old scheme rides the bottom of the stack in an eastbound BNSF train. |
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12/12/2023 Upload Date: 12/30/2023 6:00:32 AM |
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Miami, TX |
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Tom Beckett |
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22 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
OOCL on the Transcon |
Description: |
OOCL-for Orient Overseas Container Lines-boxes on an eastbound stack near Miami Tex on the Transcon. |
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12/12/2023 Upload Date: 12/31/2023 6:10:51 AM |
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Miami, TX |
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Tom Beckett |
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Title: |
China Shipping pair |
Description: |
This pair of China Shipping boxes was on an eastbound at Miami Texas. There are lots of these on the Transcon. |
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12/12/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2024 6:10:59 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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35 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Bright |
Description: |
Theres enough yellow and white on these two boxes that youd almost need sunglasses to watch them roll by. On the Transcon, headed west |
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12/12/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2024 6:25:37 AM |
Location: |
Pampa, TX |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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37 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
One more trucker |
Description: |
A container belonging to R&L Carriers, a multi faceted truck line-they do local and LTL, as well as over the road, and now intermodal, rides west atop a JB Hunt refrigerated box on the Transcon. |
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12/12/2023 Upload Date: 1/2/2024 4:54:29 AM |
Location: |
Shattuck, OK |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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RollingStock,Action |
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72 Comments: 1 |
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