Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Large animal cars

These cars are used to transport large animals such as elephants. They were set several long coach lengths west of the passenger train.

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".)

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".)

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".)

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".)

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".)

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".)

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".)

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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