Preserved Railroad Trailers?

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2014 12:09 am

Three cheers to the CRHS for saving a Triple Crown RoadRailer.

I know that, at one point, the B&O Railroad Museum had on its property a former C&O original RoadRailer. I don't recall seeing it of late; I have no idea if it's still there, hidden somewhere, or gone.

ge44tonner · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2014 12:52 am

[quote="Ron Goldfeder"]One of the MP trailers at the Museum of Transportation is on the museum's "Front Runner" TTOX piggyback flat. This car is likely the sole surviving example of their four wheel design /quote]
There is at least one other "Front Runner" TTOX car in a museum collection. The Railroad Museum of Oklahoma (Enid OK) has one on display.

Ed Kapuscinski · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:17 pm

Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote:

Three cheers to the CRHS for saving a Triple Crown RoadRailer.

Thanks, we're proud of some of our more oddball collection pieces, especially that and the camp car.

Oh, we also have the rail bogey for it too, and are planning on getting a couplermate too.

RSwinnerton · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:32 pm **Posts:** 198

The C&O Roadrailer is still at the B&O Museum.

We at CRHS have also discussed saving an 89' flat car and putting 2 trailers on it as Conrail was into intermodal in a big way. One of them would have to be a Trailvan, of course and I'd really like the other to be a UPS drop bottom pup trailer (but I doubt ups would go for it)
Russ

o anderson · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:34 pm

Another discussion occurred on this topic here in years past. It seems that there are more trailers surviving than those preserved.
http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27135

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6405

Olin -

I checked out that old thread and noticed a mention of a Chicago & Eastern Illinois trailer outside of some restaurant in Connecticut. That was way back in 2009. Wonder if it might still exist? Not much saved from the C&EI and that might be something that could be.

Les

milepost205 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:09 pm

If anyone knows where an old Wabash RR trailer is located, please let me know. The WRHS would be interested in obtaining one for restoration & display.

I had heard of one being used by a construction company in Springfield, Illinois, but when i went to its last known location, it was gone. The construction company is not known.

James Holzmeier
Wabash Railroad Historical Society

ctjacks · **Posted:** Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:22 pm

This has been discussed a few times on this site.

On last season of Chicago Fire, the firemen on the show rescued someone from a very nice ex-PRR trailer, parked in the Canal St./I-55 area of Chicago. And, as I have posted before, there is/was a trailer-leasing company in Connecticut with a large number of ex-EL trailers.

This is an area of preservation where there are still examples out there that can be acquired.

Chris.

rock island lines · **Joined:** Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:20 pm **Posts:** 487

A nice Santa Fe "Piggy Back Service" trailer spotted 10 years ago:
http://www.truckinginfo.com/blog/traile ... story.aspx

Quote:

...trailer is a former Flexi-Van bought about 1968 by the Santa Fe Railway.

Edit: This is not a "preserved" specimen.

Rainier Rails · **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2014 6:14 am

There are 3 ex-MP trailers owned by a business here in Seattle; in the last few years blue-gray paint was applied to 1 side of 1 of the trailers, as well as the company's buildings. I'd have to go by the location again to confirm, but I believe the other 2 trailers were not touched. Somewhere I have a picture, including the trailer numbers; I'll see if I can find it and post.

I know of 1 ex-BN trailer on private property in rural Southwest Washington.

There is also a short ex-SP trailer (in faded/rusted Daylight paint) in Reedsport, OR, as seen in the below photos from Brian McCamish's website: http://www.brian894x4.com/AbandonedRRmainpage.html

The photos can be found on the Central Oregon & Pacific page: http://www.brian894x4.com/CentralOregonandPacificRR.html

http://www.brian894x4.com/images/CORPabandondSPtrailer01.jpg

http://www.brian894x4.com/images/CORPabandondSPtrailer02.jpg

http://www.brian894x4.com/images/CORPabandondSPtrailer03.jpg

http://www.brian894x4.com/images/CORPabandondSPtrailer04.jpg

http://www.brian894x4.com/images/CORPReedsport08.jpg

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Rainier Rails · **Posted:** Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:01 am

Rainier Rails wrote:

There are 3 ex-MP trailers owned by a business here in Seattle; in the last few years blue-gray paint was applied to 1 side of 1 of the trailers, as well as the company's buildings. I'd have to go by the location again to confirm, but I believe the other 2 trailers were not touched. Somewhere I have a picture, including the trailer numbers; I'll see if I can find it and post.

A correction to my above post: there are 5 ex-MP trailers, not 3. I went by the business today, and as I recalled above, only 1 of the 5 had paint applied. Numbers as follows:

TIRZ #955 (this is the trailer with blue-gray paint applied to one side)
MPZ #253327
MPZ #252499
TIRZ #945
UPZ #576 (ex-MPZ #253231)

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Alex Huff · **Joined:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:51 pm **Posts:** 148

First generation Roadrailer C&O 186 is displayed next to the Sparta, MI depot museum on rail.

murphycc · **Joined:** Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:08 pm **Posts:** 13

The Reading Company Technical & Historical Society has two trailers in its collection at Hamburg.

Bob Milhaupt · **Joined:** Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:20 am **Posts:** 35

Alex Huff wrote:

First generation Roadrailer C&O 186 is displayed next to the Sparta, MI depot museum on rail.

My father is a member of the West Michigan Railway Historical Society, the group which owns the Roadrailer at Sparta. He tells me that a local construction company, Owen Ames Kimball, has several of these ex-C&O Roadrailers which they use as field offices at construction sites.

Bob Milhaupt
Infrequent Volunteer - Illinois Railway Museum Steam Department

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