Easy to identify, one big m-f though …
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Same here…
Different loads, similar freight car (British-built “Crocodile” series)
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Found it !
“A trainload of Admiralty buoys loaded onto Crocodile Gs. These had been manufactured in Chepstow and were taken as an out-of-gauge load to Newport Docks in the 1930s”
Another one
" A Crocodile G converted at Swindon to carry a naval gun in 1940. Its role as a gun carrier was short-lived as the threat of invasion receded and the vehicle was returned to the GWR in 1942"
from : https://didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/article.php/444/going-loco-january-2021
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The first one is a boiler for generation of steam.
I don’t know if it is a water tube (fire around tubes filled with water/steam) or fire tube boiler (water surrounds tubes full of combustion gases).
I’ll take a wild guess at the second photo and suggest distillation tower/column
for an oil refinery. Modern towers are more complicated …
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Man, something like this looks like it’s just waiting to tip over.
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Trash containers
Rusty Drain train (used to clear railway drainage )
I guess this weary boxcar is hitching a ride…
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Uncrating a Whitcomb 65-DE-19A of the US Army Transportation Corps.
They were specially designed to be used in Europe after D-day, with some of them remaining in Europe after the war. Most were shipped back and sold to companies in the US, Canada, Mexico and Cuba.
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Those look like Apollo capsule mock-ups under that Sky Crane!
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The United States Department of Energy has created a railcar system “that can safely transport spent nuclear fuel and dangerous radioactive waste” :
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More info and pics :
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A Milwaukee Road flatcar was loaded with a birthday cake and historic photos to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Slinger, Wis. The car was photographed during the village celebration on November 2, 2019. Cody Grivno photo
10D100 diesel engines from TE-10 locomotives, produced by the Malyshev factory in Ukraine
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That big black thing on the yellow lowboy looks like a gigantic speaker woofer.
I think we know why our postal mail is late. They collect all the outgoing mail, put the trucks on a train car, then it gets shunted over into a siding out in the middle of BFE.
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Over the decades, when I find some piece of something, be it out of a shower, electrical component, fell out of an automobile, just some odd item that fell out of some other gizmo, I grab it and put it in a box. With or without a little bit of scratch building and kid bashing, and some pain, they make great looking eclectic free car loads. If somebody wants to know what it is - what’s the prototype? - I simply smirk and say that I’m not at Liberty to divulge and they would have to contact public relations of the shipper. Nobody’s ever followed me up beyond that but I was always ready if they ask her the shipper was to tell them that I’m not at Liberty to violate that as part of a non-disclosure agreement.
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