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Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Council Bluffs, IA 2002
Rolling Stock No. MP 640036	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Our lowest numbered example of a fishbelly gon, with a fresh UP decal applied over the orginal MP emblem.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Thrall Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE Map October 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 640519	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

52' 100-ton Thrall-built gondola, with fishbelly and missing the typical I.D. plates.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE Map October 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 640569	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

53' fishbelly gondola loaded with scrap metal.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE Map October 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 640569	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

53' fishbelly gondola loaded with scrap metal.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE Map October 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 640569	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

53' fishbelly gondola loaded with scrap metal.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Council Bluffs, IA 2002
Rolling Stock No. MP 640675	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE Map December 2 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 640977	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Fishbelly gon, built 11/76.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific GSC Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE Map August 12 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 641199	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Greenville Steel Car-built straight belly gondola, built 5/72, seen at scrap yard. 8/12/95, Lincoln, NE

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Council Bluffs, IA August 18 2001
Rolling Stock No. MP 641476	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Council Bluffs, IA August 18 2001
Rolling Stock No. MP 641785	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Council Bluffs, IA August 18 2001
Rolling Stock No. MP 642355	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBSR	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE September 26 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 642385	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE August 12 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 642593	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

At the scrap yard waiting to be loaded.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE August 12 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 642593	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

At the scrap yard waiting to be loaded.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE February 7 1997
Rolling Stock No. MP 642954	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Showing strip bracing on end.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE June 2001
Rolling Stock No. MP 643151	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Gondola with sheet steel bracing on end; built 1/80?

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Council Bluffs, IA August 18 2001
Rolling Stock No. MP 643261	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Construcora Nacionales Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: - -
Rolling Stock No. MP 643611	Photographer: © Elvin Klepzig Photo

MP 643611 - Black Gondola built, 6/83. A one-time paint scheme for modern MP gons, this oddball series was built by Construcora Nacionales in Sahagun, Mexico.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Construcora Nacionales Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE Map April 2 1996
Rolling Stock No. MP 643747	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

MP 643747 - This black gondola is showing its age some eighteen years later; 4/2/96. As the story goes, the NdeM owed the Mopac several thousand dollars in car hire and offered to build these gondolas to offset payment (which incidentally would have been cheaper than buying gons by US builders). Using black and white photos of MP's gons, the builders had no idea what color to use, so these cars were painted all-over black with white grabs

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Construcora Nacionales Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE Map June 17 2008
Rolling Stock No. MP 643774	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

One of MoPac's Mexico-built gondolas. This example has taken on a fair amount of corrosion and oxidation after three decades.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Construcora Nacionales Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: - -
Rolling Stock No. MP 643801	Photographer: © Elvin Klepzig Photo

MP 643801 - Black Gondola with white grabs built, 6/83. You may be able to see the "Hecho in Mexico" Aztec eagle head stamped on the side of the Mexican-built cars.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Council Bluffs, IA 2002
Rolling Stock No. MP 650268	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

65' mill gondola with fishbelly waiting to be loaded at the local scrapyard.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE Map July 29 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 650302	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

65' mill gondola with fishbelly waiting to be loaded at the local scrapyard.

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBS	Location/Date of Photo: Lincoln, NE Map July 29 1995
Rolling Stock No. MP 650302	Photographer: Todd Greuter Photo

Brakewheel end detail

Unit, AAR/Owner Class: Missouri Pacific Gondola GBSR	Location/Date of Photo: Ames, IA April 17 2001
Rolling Stock No. MP 697161	Photographer: © RailArc; Michael Petersen Photo

40' Covered Gondola in UP paint at Ames yard, Iowa

Featured Photographers:
Elvin Klepzig, Michael Petersen @ RailArc


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