Reposting the URL to this list of ex-UP cars on RBBB for cross-reference:

http://utahrails.net/pass/ringling-ex-up.php

Does anyone know the car numbers for the second Ghost Train?

This is what is reported to have shown up in Tampa tonight:

RBBX 42009 (Blue 179)
RBBX 63005 (Blue 200)
RBBX 40010 (Blue 187)
RBBX 42016 (Blue 178)
RBBX 41305 (Blue 195)
RBBX 84804
RBBX 84803
RBBX 88802 (5-unit Spine)
RBBX 85702
RBBX 80713
RBBX 80707
RBBX 80705
RBBX 80708
RBBX 84718
RBBX 80702
RBBX 84704
RBBX 80710
RBBX 84712
RBBX 84719
RBBX 80715
RBBX 80703
RBBX 84707
RBBX 84706
RBBX 80714
RBBX 80704
RBBX 84711
RBBX 80718

See further upthread for cars set out in North Carolina; others were reportedly set off in Jacksonville.

This might also be of interest; it showed up on my Facebook page from a fellow named Jesse Smith:

List of 69 RBB&B Circus cars sold:
(Info from Private Varnish Tracker)
Car No. / To
40003 Circus & Traveling Showmen Retirement Center
40006 EL Dining Car Society
40007 Mr. Kevin Moore (DuBois, PA)
40011 Two Tails Ranch Williston, FL)
40012 PanAm Railways (Unconfirmed)
41301 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
41302 Mr. Brian Miser (Peru, IN)
41303 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
41304 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
41305 Gold Coast Railway Museum
41306 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
41307 Dearing Railroad
41308 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
41309 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
41310 Tulsa, OK (Unknown)
41311 Roanoke Chapter NRHS (Roanoke, VA)
41312 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
41313 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
41315 Cincinnati Dinner Train
41316 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
41317 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
41406 Cincinnati Dinner Train
42005 Two Tails Ranch Williston, FL)
42009 Gold Coast Railway Museum
42010 EL Dining Car Society
42013 Baraboo Circus Museum
42017 Mr. Kevin Moore (DuBois, PA)
42018 Seaview Railroad
42019 Seaview Railroad
42022 Mr. Jason Sobczynski
43001 NCDOT
43002 NCDOT
43004 NCDOT
43005 NCDOT
43006 NCDOT
43007 NCDOT
43008 NCDOT
43010 NCDOT
43011 Seaview Railroad
43012 NCDOT
60012 Mr. Jason Sobczynski
63001 NCDOT
60017 EL Dining Car Society
63006 Baraboo Circus Museum
63007 At Morristown, NJ (Unknown)
63008 Crossroads Railcar (Stearns, KY)
63010 Vermont Railway
80707 Baraboo Circus Museum
84804 Gold Coast Railway Museum
84706 Gold Coast Railway Museum
88802 Gold Coast Railway Museum
Mix of 18 cars to private buyer in Florida. No number att.

Is there a link???

The original poster didn't have one on his site, but I've put in a request to see if such a link is available.

The folowing lists what was SUPPOSEDLY left behind by the "Purple/Funeral Train" at Baldwin Yard in Jacksonville, en route to other locations:

# Old RBBB car #

40016 - 166
42005 - 198
40014 - 199
40013 - 193
40011 - 180
42001 - 183
42015 - 179
43003 - 177
43009 - 173
41402 - 194
41404 - 190
42014 - 169
42011 – 167
42006 – 196
43007 – 171
40005 – 40
40001 – 34
40017 – 59
40015 – 50
40002 – 48
40004 – 45
42020 – 56

Apparently, car 41307 was lost! The new owner put out a request on Facebook asking for friends to look for the car in CSX's Oak Island yard - I'm afraid I don't know where that is. Whoops!

Sounds like typical CSX to me... so many stories about cars traveling thousands of miles out of the way (including running back to the station of origin after traveling hundreds of miles in the right direction)... no surprise to me.

Newark, NJ, east of the "NEC". Built by the Lehigh Valley just after the turn of the 20th Century and now part of Conrail Shared Assets Operations.

Hardly a new phenomenon or unique to CSX.

I once had a car broker tell me of a non-standard passenger car he was shipping from suburban Chicago to Montreal that, in spite of the proper UMLER RFID tags, waybilling, etc., ended up in Elko, Nevada--wrong direction, wrong railroad.

And I, too, have had to literally go searching a railroad yard from towers or even on foot, or even a railroad, for a lost car on behalf of a client.

Any idea about what happed to the flatcars? I've heard that Amtrak bought most or all of them as MOW cars.

Howard P.

Some buyers are willing to talk:

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/20 ... -beginning (Subscriber-only)

Just over 25 minutes ago, as seen from the webcam, a northbound manifest on CSX's ex-RF&P line passed through Ashland, VA, with #41307 near the end of the train (53rd out of 54 total cars). The power was #3215 and #455. No clue on the train symbol, or where it's headed.

EDIT: I just noticed this is the car that apparently had/has gone missing; I was wondering why it was headed north, as I think this car should be headed towards Georgia, not away from the Peach State! (Is the owner still trying to track it down, or does he know what train it's currently part of?)

Nothing unusual here... we are talking about CSX after all...