Classic Storage Sheds
This pair of classic outside braced box cars converted to storage sheds just adjacent to the Union Pacific (and before that Chicago & North Western) main line were once part of a feed mill complex in Malta, Illinois.
These were likely donated by the C&NW to this good track-side customer back when they were retired from rail service in the 1950s or 1960s.
I like how a crude wooden ladder and an overhang was added for the drivers of trucks that would back up to the door for loading/un-loading.
I’m not sure about those 55-gallon drums as a base though, that looks like it could have been precariously unstable, so I hope these were not used to store nitroglycerin.
It’s interesting to think of all the different freight loads these had carried, where they had traveled, and how many total miles each had logged when still in use by the railroad. – October 2000 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
Classic Storage Sheds
This pair of classic outside braced box cars converted to storage sheds just adjacent to the Union Pacific (and before that Chicago & North Western) main line were once part of a feed mill complex in Malta, Illinois.
These were likely donated by the C&NW to this good track-side customer back when they were retired from rail service in the 1950s or 1960s.
I like how a crude wooden ladder and an overhang was added for the drivers of trucks that would back up to the door for loading/un-loading.
I’m not sure about those 55-gallon drums as a base though, that looks like it could have been precariously unstable, so I hope these were not used to store nitroglycerin.
It’s interesting to think of all the different freight loads these had carried, where they had traveled, and how many total miles each had logged when still in use by the railroad. – October 2000 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©