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RE: (erielack) NIRX 60017

An RBL for bentonite clay service??? Could there have been a more appropriate car for that? :)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erielack1_@_aol.com [mailto:Erielack1@aol.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:11 PM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: (erielack) NIRX 60017
> 
> 
> When I was working as a train order operator on the Allinace 
> Division of the 
> BN during 1979 and 1980 I used to see NIRX 60017 pass by me 
> in trains heading 
> to Wyoming. The car was in benttonate clay service at the 
> time and I think it 
> was being loaded in the Newcastle, Wyoming area. Sometime in 
> 1981 I stoppped 
> see the car go by anymore and it dropped out of the computer 
> system when I 
> tried to trace it. Car was yellow, black ends and lettering, 
> EL diamond on the 
> right side. Made me miss home each time I saw it. 
> Bob Stafford
> 

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