• L I Gondolas Spotted in New Jersey

  • Discussion of the past and present operations of the Long Island Rail Road.
Discussion of the past and present operations of the Long Island Rail Road.

Moderator: Liquidcamphor

  by David Hutchinson
 
Saw three gondolas with the reporting marks LI. One of them had a yellow patch with Track Ramp or something on it. They were in a westbound CSX River Line Train. Condition of the cars was good, not old cars at all. Can anyone out there help?

  by NIMBYkiller
 
What color were they. There used to be a whole string of em parked with some NS boxcars on the secondary in Garden City....but those were pretty beat up. Dented up pretty bad. They were a dark red....maybe burgundy.

  by David Hutchinson
 
I am color/shade blind, but they looked dark red to me. The letters were of a more modern style with no horizontal bars on the top and botton of the letter "I". It went by quickly, so I did not get the numbers, but I think they were five digits long. They were maybe a 53 foot car. The reporting marks were not white, maybe a dull yellow/gold color. They were near the middle of a mixed train at North Bergen, NJ.

  by jayrmli
 
Probably MOW gondolas bringing new railroad ties.

Jay