The Philadelphia Chapter of the

National Railway Historical Society

Established in 1936

This is the start of a series that will feature Conrail freight cars that were hanging around Abrams Yard near Philadelphia a dozen years ago. First up, several of Conrail's long flat cars. Flats are usually at the low end of the freight car population due to their limited uses, and the long flat cars are at the low end of the flat car population (unless you happen to be TTX). Fortunately, these pictures are all "two-fers", as the flats were hauling a number of cars that were damaged in a derailment (from the types of most of the cars involved, it might have been a Morrisville Line train).

Here refrigerated car SPFE 456150 is loaded onto Conrail flat car CR 725514.

All pictures September 1994 Copyright © 2006 John P. Almeida

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