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These cars are used to transport large animals such as elephants. They were set several long coach lengths west of the passenger train.
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RBBX 60006 (Large animal car) in the Galewood rail yard. (photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 126,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)
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RBBX 60006 (Large animal car) in the Galewood rail yard. (photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 126,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)
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RBBX 60010 (Large animal car) in the Galewood rail yard. (photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 126,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 13' 11".)
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RBBX 60010 (Large animal car) in the Galewood rail yard. (photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 126,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 13' 11".)
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RBBX 60014 (Large animal car) in the Galewood rail yard. (photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 126,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 2".)
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RBBX 60014 (Large animal car) in the Galewood rail yard. (photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 126,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 2".)
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RBBX 60017 (Large animal car) in the Galewood rail yard. (photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 126,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 5".)
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RBBX 60017 (Large animal car) in the Galewood rail yard. (photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 126,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 5".)
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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