Report From The Road (Part 5) - Obey This!
Passing a rail yard somewhere in Ontario, I spotted this strange rail car. I’m sure there’s a perfectly good professional railroader’s definition of what I saw, but for the layperson (no pun intended) it looks funny.
Here’s the rail car:
And I’d obey the instructions stenciled on the outside if I were you:
Check out more pictures from the train journey on my Flickr page.







May 20th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Tom!
That’s actually and equipment shed, it holds tools for maintenance and to thaw the switches in the winter.
The description of the observation car was so cool!
Have a safe one!
May 20th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Man, I have to wake up before I comment on this stuff….I went to the Flikr page and saw the detail of the flat car that the thing was on…
So, as of now I am stupid and I have no idea what that thing on the flat car is. Please pardon my propensity for jumping to conclusions.