by Pete
Driving south into town on 95 I keep seeing what seem to be livestock cars on the right. Am I mistaken? And if I'm not, what are they doing there?
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Are those livestock cars in Providence? (autoracks)
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by TomNelligan
Offhand I'm not sure what you're looking at -- maybe some of Amtrak's maintenance equipment? -- but there haven't been stock cars in use anywhere in New England since at least the 1960s.
by Trainman101
I have seen recently old 50' boxcars that have the "open" look like livestock cars(they may have been livestock cars at one point). They were carrying plywood.
by AM@BRT
Pete,
Those are automobile transport cars, known as "autoracks". They are being stored by the P & W awaiting an upturn in business.
Alan Marsh
Those are automobile transport cars, known as "autoracks". They are being stored by the P & W awaiting an upturn in business.
Alan Marsh
Alan Marsh, President, Boston Railway Terminal Corporation
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