More sand through Wisconsin Rapids

Since the last web page, I had two more sand trains passing by me on the west side of Wisconsin Rapids. I don't go out of my way to see trains, this is just what happens along the way. This might get boring to see so many sand hoppers. 25 pictures on this page. Watch the variety of reporting marks.

.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brynn Preferred Sands is on the label above the SWSX.

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . there's hardly any two reporting marks together. That must be a chore to record numbers.

And this is the switch engine set that is staging the hoppers for the evening train to Taylor and the two sand plants. I don't know which cars go to which two plants out west. The old plant is in Taylor, and the new frac sand plant is in Blair.

And a few days later I was watching another crossing the street in front of me. Green stripe. I'm guessing this a car for Taylor sand, a lot of them used to go there years ago before all this modern frac sand business.

And here's the GATX car with the square-ish look on the ends.

don't see many of these in modern times, with the traditional 8 top hatches.

One more, a little one, with a load limit of only 203,900 My father-in-law repaired railroad cars. After they had to add steel to weld on patches, they would repaint the load limit to show less allowed weight. This type of car normally should have a load limit of 204,000.

And the switch engine moving them today.

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