Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

42200 series cars

These cars provide living quarters for members of the circus.

RBBX 42203 (42200 series car) beneath the Central Avenue overpass in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 180, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 131,500 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 88,500 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 0".)

RBBX 42203 (42200 series car) in the Galewood rail yard, viewed from the Hanson Park Metra station. An empty piggyback flat car can be see in the foreground with the Central Avenue bridge in the background. (car number 180, photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 131,500 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 88,500 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 0".)

RBBX 42203 (42200 series car) in the Galewood rail yard, viewed from the Hanson Park Metra station. An empty piggyback flat car can be see in the foreground with the Central Avenue bridge in the background. (car number 180, photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 131,500 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 88,500 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 0".)

RBBX 42203 (42200 series car) beneath the Central Avenue overpass in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 180, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 131,500 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 88,500 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 0".)

RBBX 42203 (42200 series car) in the Galewood rail yard, viewed from the Hanson Park Metra station. An empty piggyback flat car can be see in the foreground with the Central Avenue bridge in the background. (car number 180, photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 131,500 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 88,500 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 0".)

RBBX 42204 (42200 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 172, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 131,500 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 88,500 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 6".)

I took these photographs during November of 1998 using a Sony Mavica FD-7 digital camera. Adobe Photoshop was used for electronic dark room processing. I've written a custom perl 5 script which constructs these pages from a terse text description file, using a template file.

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