It looks like someone needed the trucks off these cars and left them for dead.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28555987@N ... 404005197/

Actually the one with an interior view was a troop kitchen car.
Anybody know where these are? The captions on the pictures don't say.

My guess is that they are being used for some sort of military training. The numbers painted sideways on the cars and the shot of the two Army locomotives gives it away.

Looking at the photos there seems to be at least six of these cars, maybe more. They are somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.

If these photos came from a military base, they probably aren't very recent. The GE centercab locomotive's number is obscured but it appears to start with a 7, and by the early 1990s the last of the 7000-series locomotives left the Army inventory. Today's remaining centercabs are GE 80-tons in the 1600-series. The locomotive in the photo looks like it may be coupled to an Alco, and Alcos are long gone from the Army roster. Most troop and kitchen cars of this type left the Army inventory after WW II. I've seen truck-free Korean War-era boxcars used for static storage next to infantry battalion buildings at Fort Stewart, GA, but never any old troop or kitchen cars. One photo shows what appears to be steel steps welded to the end of a car, and possibly these were used for storage or office space until put up for sale and disposal by scrapping.

Some more info was posted in this (unfortunately) newly created thread:

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