Open Top Loads: Flatcar and Gondola Color Portfolio Volume 3 (Softcover) Equipment “Buck” Dumaine

“Buck” Dumaine

it still operated a substantial long distance passenger service in the several years before Amtrak

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Open Top Loads: Flatcar and Gondola Color Portfolio Volume 3 (Softcover) Equipment “Buck” DumaineBy Robert J. Yanosey Open Top Load is the term given to the carriage of products or commodities on flatcars or gondolas. These products usually fit into two categories: 1) they are too large or bulky to fit into boxcars and or 2) they are loose inexpensive material not suitable for a hopper car. These volumes feature large color photos of flatcars and gons with such loads, mostly recorded in the 1960s to the 1980s. The volumes are differentiated by