Something new to me

[carlso]

Caught this in El Paso today on the ELP-Belen BNSF line.







Thanks for looking !
Carl

[peteski]

That is a pretty realistically detailed N scale car!

[wcfn100]

I caught this IC shoving platform back in 2015 in Omaha.



I think there's a few of those BNSF ones.

Jason

[nkalanaga]

So...that's the 2019 replacement for a caboose?

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Yep. Kinda a let down isn't it?

I wish we could get a dignified modern version of a transfer cab. But we get this.

[brokemoto]

It might be a "handle" as some railroad men used to call them.  They are idler cars used to shove cars onto ferries or onto track where weight restrictions did not permit locomotives.  You also see them on tracks where cars are spotted inside buildings.  You do not want a locomotive in there because the exhaust will linger. 

Often, these things were old flatcars onto which the shops added railings.

The one in Original Poster's photograph does not look that old.  This is the first one that I have seen with railings and a brake wheel further in on the car body.

[CRL]

It’s a new “Loco” designed by AOC as part of her Green New Deal.

[MK]

It’s a new “Loco” designed by AOC as part of her Green New Deal.

Oh, so it's solar or wind powered??? 

[CRL]

Oh, so it's solar or wind powered??? 

Nope... Unicorn farts. 🙃

[strummer]

...well, there goes this thread... 

Mark in Oregon

[MK]

Nope... Unicorn farts. 🙃

Sorry but farts are not green.  Methane. 

[eja]

I love the "steering wheel"   

[CRL]

Sorry but farts are not green.  Methane. 

Everyone knows unicorns fart rainbows 🌈

[nkalanaga]

I'd say that was for the brakeman/switchman. so they don't have to stand on the end of the car.  In the middle, with railings on both sides, would be a lot safer with sudden moves or slack action.  It looks like it has all of the valves and piping for air brake control as well, just like a caboose used to.

[x600]

...well, there goes this thread... 

Mark in Oregon

LOL...… This


Greg O