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5/23/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: International Paper Corporation
Old Name: Federal Paper Board
Type: Pulpwood Car
AAR Class: FL: Flat logging car or logging truck. This is either a straight deck flat car, with or without bulkheads or load restraining devices, or car consisting of two trucks fitted with cross supports over truck bolsters; the trucks connected by a skeleton or flexible frame and logs loaded lengthwise on cross supports.
AAR Type: F373
Detail Info:   Flat Car, Load Limit: 185,000-199,999lb, Inside length: 60-75ft
Plate:   G
Max Gross Weight:   263000
Load Limit:   197100
Ext L/W/H:   68' 7" / 10' 3" / 15' 0"
Int L/W/H:   65' 4" / 8' 10" / 0' 0"

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Big business
Title:  Big business
Description:  There are quite a few of these loads I see on KCS trains headed for paper mills, such as the large one in Ashdown, just north of Texarkana. Despite the digital age, paper is still important. This rack was passing through Siloam Springs on an H train.
Photo Date:  9/29/2016  Upload Date: 10/5/2016 4:41:12 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
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