- BLMA TT TTX flats - some would still be floating around
Yes, and there are a couple of KTTX flats in the TT logo floating around in the mid-90s.
The F89-J wasn't as common as the flush deck or channel sided ACF/PS/BS flats, so you'd be more likely to see an unmodified TTX marked flat (TT logo) than the BLMA car.
To put it in perspective, my April 96 ORER has about 250 flats with TTX marks (including 2x 85' cars), versus the thousands of RTTX (Triple 28) and TTWX (Twin 45) flats and many-hundreds of the KTTX / WTTX Twin 45 Flats.
Keep it in mind though that during the early double-stack age, many terminals were still loading flats circus style (such as the FEC) and the appropriate flats (such as the TTX 89' and 85' flats) would have been allocated to those corridors.
Unlikely to see PS 85' cars in intermodal service. No TTAX's left by this time...
See above - maybe you got lucky on the day?
Like Ben said, TTAXs in 48' spine service.
I believe in searching through my photos that PS 85' cars formed the ITIX fleet of cars that carried sludge from NJ to Texas in this era.
ITIX weren't "registered" in my 96 ORER, but they were shown in the index.
Just to echo what Ben said, TT and TTX flats, Maxi-Is, Maxi-IIIs, Lo-Pacs, Husky Stacks are all fair game - all those dirty TT flats patched for TTX should be great weathering projects. The odd TT/Railroad patched double stack would be nice variety in the early part of the 90s. Still plenty of TT double stacks 93-96 on my Espee videos too.
For the hotshot Z trains, lots of TTAX 48' spines and like Russ mentioned, the trailer only UTTX spines too.
And cause you asked, only four 75' ATTX cars by 4/96.
