Talking about having everything on one video: hanging out with Jawtooth, an open boxcar full of navy beans (my favorite), trains going and coming, a beautiful old switcher engine, a pusher DPU and lots more. Plus the famous Shoestring. It don't get any better than that. Safe travels and take care. 😎👍👌
Thats right chester..both of them were at the hobo reunion too I saw the video and shoestring friend won the king of the hobos award im happy for him..he's a young guy too.
My dad had a story about picking up peanuts that had fallen from a train when he was a kid. That was probably around 1930. Peanuts weren't common in the area, and it was quite a treat!
When I was 10 or 11 yrs old - my brother and I were hanging out around the local R/R tracks throwing rocks and snooping around some parked box cars when we spotted a boxcar with an open door. We noticed that the car was mostly empty except for a large box like container at one end. We climbed up inside and looked inside the box. We could not believe our eyes! - it was a damaged container full of ….wait for it! ….Double Bubble chewing gum!! Jackpot!! We hauled as much of it home as we could and went back with some friends for more! That was a day in my life and my brothers we would never forget!! 🍬🍬🍬🍬
not gona happen..a full box car for one of them to make money is like 27$ thats like well over 8 tons..they are made local and to this days candy is controled by the atf.Even to this day candy is under the control of this ATF.
@@SanDmaNTheFreakTrucker its kids that found a giant box full of double bubble gum lmfao what kid wouldnt grab a shirt full and take off? Acting like they stole the train or stole something important lol man nobody can have a fun childhood nowadays without someone being offended. Male Karen
@@R7wStandOverShit so true.i think people that always have negative things to say tells me the person is unhappy with what ever there dealing with in life.i hate people that take shit out on others for there own shortcomings.
I used to think railfanning was a weird way to pass time.....until my son and I started to hang out at the airport planespotting for hours on end. Hell, we're driving 4hrs to Bloomington, MN, home of MSP airport, to planespot over Labor Day weekend. Be good and be safe, Shoestring.
Looking at those Navy beans has me thinking of the upcoming fall and winter. I use them to make crockpot soups with some smoked ham and other ingredients. A good inside warming hearty meal for the cold weather, especially good to keep in a thermos on a cold day while railfanning.
I was watching that cam before you guys got there, the gate malfunctioned and started making so much racket that I quit watching. There was a really long train went through then backed up just before the bell started and never stopped. Glad you and Jaw Tooth made good time today.
Beans beans the magical fruit, the more you eat em the more you toot. The more you toot, the better you feel, so Shoestring eat your beans with every meal 😆
Just when we thought we could trust you two together, you go rob the train, and beans no less. Oh well, I'll take a 50 lb. bag too! Have fun boys, stay safe and thank you Mr. Jaw Tooth for helping out the King of the rail!
Hey Shoestring I just happen to stumble upon this video, Holy crap! I lived in Galesburg for 20 plus years partied all over that town, it's kinda gone ta hell in hand basket like everything else I moved away from Galesburg back in 2010 couldn't deal with all the BS anymore, living in Peoria,IL. now, boy talk about bringin back memories! Thanks for the video, keep em' comin!
Those pellets are called “taconite”. We had a US Steel mine by us in Wyoming. They then make their way to a smelter to be made into iron. The ones by us went to Magna Utah.
Taconite pellets were imported into Philadelphia during the Penn Central days going west to steel mills in the old short Pennsy ore hoppers. Train length was short with extra power for the heavy loads. They were a treat to find in the ballast, being a perfect load for your slingshot!
Lionel Trains used to make a Timken boxcar in the post-war era. My brother, a Lionel collector, tells me that the Timken boxcars are sought after, and are worth quite a bit if they are in good shape. Even more so, if you have the original box that it came in..... 🚬😎
Never seen this but I’ve seen similar. From the cardboard and pallet banding across the opening it looks like that’s as far as the door closes. They banded it tight then stuck the cardboard there to keep it from sliding out one at a time. When the engineer yanked the slack out of it all the beans slid backwards.That also slid the cardboard over and broke the bottom band. After the train reached a yard it stopped and a hobo walked over and checked it out. Just my 2 cents.
Wow the two railroad greats on a train hunt! Jaw tooth is loco for his loco's! Looks like somebody spilled the beans! Thanks shoestring, travel safe godspeed
Reminds me of an incident many years ago involving a dump truck full of beans on the Baltimore Beltway. The little door on the tailgate came open spilling beans over 4 lanes of rush hour traffic. The resulting pile-up was truly spectacular. I was in one of the tow trucks sent to clean it up. Lucky that trains don't spin out.
Me and a buddy hopped on a freight train once thinking we could just jump off in the next town hang out for a bit and jump on another home. Boy was we WRONG. That train didnt even slow down enough for us to attempt to jump off, for 5 hrs. About 1030 we gave up and had to call parents to come get us. (Grounded for the rest of the summer) but was totally worth the adventure
Just watched Virtual Railfan live/recorded feed @ Galesburg from today and can see you and Jaw Tooth walking beside the tracks @ the 11:39am mark. Very cool! The camera got ya waving at it Shoestring! All the best and safe travels...
That boxcar looks like a set up , awesome video once again Shoestring , it's awesome to see 2 amazing people in the same video jawtooths videos are the best when it comes to railfan videos . Lol I sure try but it's hard where I live to many intermodal trains going through and no definite schedules .
@@nola504creole5 no way , neither person would mess with the stuff on a train . Just saying it could have been a set up to get someone trapped off if they were caught near the train . Both Shoestring and Jaw tooth are respectful of trains .
Those bags of beans are something one would see in a Costco. I have seen 40lb bags of rice in them. And rolling papers in the tobacco cage where the cigarettes are.
Jawtooth could be in the back of an ambulance,on the way to the hospital, hear a train on the scanner, and tell the drivers to pull over for some live action. 🤣
Coming out of Lacrosse hoping to hit Galesburg I took an IM. OK mistake, hit Chicago. Got to get mixed manifest to get into Galesburg. I spent some time in the 80's drinking under those bridges.
That BNSF SD40-2 snoot with the slug cutting cars was a pretty cool find. And then the short nose SD40-2 on the bridge. Some of my favorite road engines. Trains still get to blow the horn at the crossing at the end of our road. I can usually hear one coming before they hit the crossing if it's a nice quiet night. I hear that rumble of the prime mover and then a few seconds later the horn. I don't mind it. But i'll bet the people who live right down there next to the track do. But the track was there long before the houses were so they knew what they were getting into. I laughed my ass off when you caught the Jawtooth fart!
Holy rollers, we got lots of them up here in Detroit! Those reefers are usually the first to get hit as well: flat panels and white paint makes the pieces really pop if the writers know what they're doing.
I think the smell coming off those pellets is the oil they coat 'em with so they don't rust as much during transpo. I used to work around titanium smelting plants & they mixed other metals together to make metals even harder than titanium that were black all the way through, weird stuff.
One torrid summer night in East St. Louis someone broke the seal and opened a boxcar that was transferring to ICG RR. In giant wax cartons dozens of raw cowhides from National Stockyards spilled out on the grade and whoever broke into it. LOL Tales from a Special Agent! :-)
I laughed so hard when jaw tooth let it RIP, I think he was a little embarrassed when you called it out. He wanted to keep changing the subject. Haha. Happens to the best of us . Stay safe brother!
I hadn't laughed so hard in years! He didn't say anything. I really didn't think anyone would notice. It happened like split second after I started the camera
"Jaw Tooth is like a kid in a candy store"...I feel that Shoe! My grandson and I have made many a mad dash to catch up with one we hear coming. Been railfanning with him since he was 18 months old.
Those journals with the doors on them are called friction bearings aka rag burners. When the oil was used up and the bearing dried out the friction heat would build up till it caught fire and caused what’s known as a hot box.
I heard that "friction bearing" was originally a pejorative term introduced by makers of roller bearings. "Journal bearing" is the "official" name for them (insofar as anything is "official").
My dad and I were in a rail club ( New Hope Valley Railway, Bonsal NC) and the rolling stock all had those bearing boxes and I can remember many Saturday morning running around with a gallon jug of used motor oil making sure every one had enough to run the 8 mile round trip at 10 mph😂🤣. Much love to you Shoe. I’m a fan of JT as well. Man, much love to you both!
I work out of Galesburg.Those auto racks crew change in Fort Madison IA. That empty intermodal is what we call a bare table. Most of the time it’s cars that aren’t being used. Basically rolling storage. 👍🏻
The both of you are a laugh riot. You're a good team. I'm sad that you weren't elected Hobo King. Just by seniority, you should have got it. God bless the both of you. Thanks for good videos and entertainment.
i can remember as a kid they used to haul cars , autos on open train cars. i was told later that people started jumping on the train and stealing radios and stuff off the autos...hence they went to an enclosed rail car to haul autos.
I worked in a feedstore in high school and used to unload boxcars stacked about shoulder high to me and stack 'em in the store. W3'd also get boxcar loads of bagged ground peanut hulls to make steer fattener.
Back in the day when my grandfather worked for MOPAC, he would let me go to work with him and we’d eventually wind up in the yard. Whenever they were switching iron ore cars some would fall out the bottom. I would go grab a couple of pocketfuls and use it in my slingshot.
Godspeed Mr. Nichols, We Thank You for all you gave, And for all you have given.. R.I.P. Shoestring, You will be greatly missed.. ✌
Talking about having everything on one video: hanging out with Jawtooth, an open boxcar full of navy beans (my favorite), trains going and coming, a beautiful old switcher engine, a pusher DPU and lots more.
Plus the famous Shoestring.
It don't get any better than that.
Safe travels and take care. 😎👍👌
........ and JT ripping his shorts..... lol
@@TheHoboShoestring - HAHAHAHA! That had me rolling!! 😂🤣😂
@@TheHoboShoestring Must have gotten into those beans off camera.
Thats right chester..both of them were at the hobo reunion too I saw the video and shoestring friend won the king of the hobos award im happy for him..he's a young guy too.
I still miss the caboose at the end of train. Waiting for the train to pass the caboose was their favorite when they were little.
My dad had a story about picking up peanuts that had fallen from a train when he was a kid. That was probably around 1930. Peanuts weren't common in the area, and it was quite a treat!
Ding ding ding its a shoestring coming had me laughing so hard!
And he respected the signs and didn't use his Shoe-horn! 😆
When I was 10 or 11 yrs old - my brother and I were hanging out around the local R/R tracks throwing rocks and snooping around some parked box cars when we spotted a boxcar with an open door. We noticed that the car was mostly empty except for a large box like container at one end. We climbed up inside and looked inside the box. We could not believe our eyes! - it was a damaged container full of ….wait for it! ….Double Bubble chewing gum!! Jackpot!! We hauled as much of it home as we could and went back with some friends for more! That was a day in my life and my brothers we would never forget!! 🍬🍬🍬🍬
not gona happen..a full box car for one of them to make money is like 27$ thats like well over 8 tons..they are made local and to this days candy is controled by the atf.Even to this day candy is under the control of this ATF.
@@jamesspencer1997 whats your point?
So you were stealing. I can forgive it since you were a child but you sound proud of it still…
@@SanDmaNTheFreakTrucker its kids that found a giant box full of double bubble gum lmfao what kid wouldnt grab a shirt full and take off? Acting like they stole the train or stole something important lol man nobody can have a fun childhood nowadays without someone being offended. Male Karen
@@R7wStandOverShit so true.i think people that always have negative things to say tells me the person is unhappy with what ever there dealing with in life.i hate people that take shit out on others for there own shortcomings.
That was awesome! I just crossed the state line. Lol
Keep Up the Strong💪Effort, Brian! You’re so Lucky to spend Time with Mark (Hobo Shoestring).👍
I appreciated the time with you at Britt and on the road.
Hobo & Jaw Tooth.You both are so awesome!!!!
You two need to make more videos together. It's a real riot and thoroughly entertaining. Thanks to both of you guys for everything that you do
Safe travels to all!
Not taken nothing away from baz but you the Hobo King in my book.
Your memory is amazing, and the amount of things you know always makes you good to listen to.
I used to think railfanning was a weird way to pass time.....until my son and I started to hang out at the airport planespotting for hours on end. Hell, we're driving 4hrs to Bloomington, MN, home of MSP airport, to planespot over Labor Day weekend.
Be good and be safe, Shoestring.
If I found that box car, I'd be eating bean salad and navy bean soup for days! LOL!
Looking at those Navy beans has me thinking of the upcoming fall and winter. I use them to make crockpot soups with some smoked ham and other ingredients. A good inside warming hearty meal for the cold weather, especially good to keep in a thermos on a cold day while railfanning.
Them navy beans are the best!
I was watching that cam before you guys got there, the gate malfunctioned and started making so much racket that I quit watching. There was a really long train went through then backed up just before the bell started and never stopped. Glad you and Jaw Tooth made good time today.
Beans beans the magical fruit, the more you eat em the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel, so Shoestring eat your beans with every meal 😆
Im so glad you brought us to Britt... But we're ready for more "ridin" videos. 👌
Just when we thought we could trust you two together, you go rob the train, and beans no less. Oh well, I'll take a 50 lb. bag too! Have fun boys, stay safe and thank you Mr. Jaw Tooth for helping out the King of the rail!
The illegitimate hobo king...
😎 that’s alotta whistle berries !! damn i was raised in winona & my grandma lived in lacrosse…
The RR needs to hire a few accountants to figure out the losses...AKA "Bean Counters"
Hey Shoestring I just happen to stumble upon this video, Holy crap! I lived in Galesburg for 20 plus years partied all over that town, it's kinda gone ta hell in hand basket like everything else I moved away from Galesburg back in 2010 couldn't deal with all the BS anymore, living in Peoria,IL. now, boy talk about bringin back memories! Thanks for the video, keep em' comin!
My x wife is from Galesburg. I visited 1 time and sworn never to return....
Enjoying your videos King Shoestring of the rails !
When I was a kid we would wait for the caboose and the men inside would throw candy out as it went by!😊
Love the how the videos been coming often Lol. Always like watching a new Shoestring video 👍
The Navy Beans are most likely going to a Manufacturing Plant to be used in Various Foods. 👍
Or a battleship to feed hungry sailors.
Those are food service (restaurant, school, hospital) size.
Beans may goto jails or prison
That’s enough beans to keep ya gassed up till yer ticker gives out
@@richfranks9161 thank god for gas x
Beans, Beans, are good for your heart. The more you eat the more you remember why you didn’t eat beans…
Those pellets are called “taconite”. We had a US Steel mine by us in Wyoming. They then make their way to a smelter to be made into iron. The ones by us went to Magna Utah.
Taconite pellets were imported into Philadelphia during the Penn Central days going west to steel mills in the old short Pennsy ore hoppers. Train length was short with extra power for the heavy loads. They were a treat to find in the ballast, being a perfect load for your slingshot!
Edmond Fitzgeralds cargo 😔
@@moemanncann895 ua-cam.com/video/FuzTkGyxkYI/v-deo.html
Hey Shoestring!!! Good to see you and Jawtooth. Sweet video. Glad to see you both enjoying your travels. Be safe and have fun
Waiting for shoestring to say but wait there’s more
@@remylopez4821 he did!!! lol
@@lorettashepherd. He sure did LOL also I have been a Galesburg as well familiar sight for a California guy
Lionel Trains used to make a Timken boxcar in the post-war era. My brother, a Lionel collector, tells me that the Timken boxcars are sought after, and are worth quite a bit if they are in good shape. Even more so, if you have the original box that it came in.....
🚬😎
Great video Shoestring! Awesome seeing you and Jawtooth together! I tuned in and saw ya'll on Virtual railfan today!
Never seen this but I’ve seen similar. From the cardboard and pallet banding across the opening it looks like that’s as far as the door closes. They banded it tight then stuck the cardboard there to keep it from sliding out one at a time.
When the engineer yanked the slack out of it all the beans slid backwards.That also slid the cardboard over and broke the bottom band. After the train reached a yard it stopped and a hobo walked over and checked it out. Just my 2 cents.
And I thought I was the only guy who's been running towards the track whenever I've heard a train since age 4. Good stuff!
Wow the two railroad greats on a train hunt! Jaw tooth is loco for his loco's! Looks like somebody spilled the beans! Thanks shoestring, travel safe godspeed
I'm sure glad you two got this time to get to know eachother. What a great collaboration. Love this.
Stay safe. Stay amazing....
I can only imagine what critters and such have ventured in there.
They could be the main course,,,,,its all good on the road,,,
Me and the birds at 2AM and we got some *BEANS!*
Reminds me of an incident many years ago involving a dump truck full of beans on the Baltimore Beltway. The little door on the tailgate came open spilling beans over 4 lanes of rush hour traffic. The resulting pile-up was truly spectacular. I was in one of the tow trucks sent to clean it up. Lucky that trains don't spin out.
Shoestring if a man had a big bag of beans like that he would never run out of navy beans
Ya make the best videos on this lifestyle Shoestring!
Thank you for the education.
17:14 That was funny using Jawtooths tag, "but wait, there's more... on top". You always have a good sense of humor Shoestring !
I love the sound of the turbos on the locomotive they sound like jet engines when they spool up
Me too
THANKS for all the videos brother
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Me and a buddy hopped on a freight train once thinking we could just jump off in the next town hang out for a bit and jump on another home. Boy was we WRONG. That train didnt even slow down enough for us to attempt to jump off, for 5 hrs. About 1030 we gave up and had to call parents to come get us. (Grounded for the rest of the summer) but was totally worth the adventure
Awesome video! Great to have you two together.
Just watched Virtual Railfan live/recorded feed @ Galesburg from today and can see you and Jaw Tooth walking beside the tracks @ the 11:39am mark. Very cool! The camera got ya waving at it Shoestring! All the best and safe travels...
Love the videos of you and Jaw Tooth. It's really nice to see you both laughing and having such a great time.
I think the iron pellets is what I picked up for slingshot ammo 60 yrs or so ago on the G M & O in West AL. They were everywhere inside the rails.
I picked them up on the GM&O in Alton, Illinois.
I saw you and Jawtooth on the Rail Cam!! That was awesome to see!! Plus you mentioned La Crosse, Wisconsin! You should come back! 🙏🏼
The iron ore pellets are Taconite. We used to pick them up along the tracks in NW Milwaukee and use them in our slingshots when I was a kid.
That boxcar looks like a set up , awesome video once again Shoestring , it's awesome to see 2 amazing people in the same video jawtooths videos are the best when it comes to railfan videos . Lol I sure try but it's hard where I live to many intermodal trains going through and no definite schedules .
you think they set it up?
@@nola504creole5 no way , neither person would mess with the stuff on a train . Just saying it could have been a set up to get someone trapped off if they were caught near the train . Both Shoestring and Jaw tooth are respectful of trains .
I've seen boxcars open like that before. Doors bash open easy if the company that loads them doesn't shut them properly
@@nola504creole5 no the person is saying that it looks like a set up... Not that they themselves set it up
@@SonnyWolfSmiles shoestring is a professional he needs to have his own tv show it would be a hit
Those bags of beans are something one would see in a Costco. I have seen 40lb bags of rice in them. And rolling papers in the tobacco cage where the cigarettes are.
Cool to see two UA-cam train stars together. Thank you, Shoestring and Jawtooth!
Jawtooth could be in the back of an ambulance,on the way to the hospital, hear a train on the scanner, and tell the drivers to pull over for some live action. 🤣
Saw you on the Galesburg, Illinois cam....glad you feel better and are ready to ride. Be Safe.
Jawtooth! My two favorites together.
One of my first jobs was to unload a boxcar full of canned peaches. Gosh, what a hot long day that was. I was so sore. That was about 50 years ago.
Hell yeah.
What a treat.
3 videos in one week, thank you shoestring !
Well we got a lot of laughs with you riding with Jawtooth. Great video. We enjoyed it. 👍👍👍❤️
Great video, every time I see a BNSF train I can hear Stobe losing his mind about how messed up BNSF trains are.
All around the campfire the sound of fart blossoms would intoxicate nostalgia
That was great! You two should hook up more often to make more of these.
It’s a trap!!
Bayside Best Beans are packaged in the small village of Sebewaing, Michigan. An old job of mine! The first ever video I've ever seen of yours, too!
just something about watching these videos that also make me feel free. its nice to get lost in your wild world for a little bit.
Coming out of Lacrosse hoping to hit Galesburg I took an IM. OK mistake, hit Chicago. Got to get mixed manifest to get into Galesburg. I spent some time in the 80's drinking under those bridges.
That BNSF SD40-2 snoot with the slug cutting cars was a pretty cool find. And then the short nose SD40-2 on the bridge. Some of my favorite road engines. Trains still get to blow the horn at the crossing at the end of our road. I can usually hear one coming before they hit the crossing if it's a nice quiet night. I hear that rumble of the prime mover and then a few seconds later the horn. I don't mind it. But i'll bet the people who live right down there next to the track do. But the track was there long before the houses were so they knew what they were getting into. I laughed my ass off when you caught the Jawtooth fart!
That's nice seeing all those new cars heading to dealers across our country
Love your vids man. Stay safe and wish you safe travels 👍👍
Holy rollers, we got lots of them up here in Detroit! Those reefers are usually the first to get hit as well: flat panels and white paint makes the pieces really pop if the writers know what they're doing.
I love the way you narrate your videos...helps us feel we are there
I think the smell coming off those pellets is the oil they coat 'em with so they don't rust as much during transpo. I used to work around titanium smelting plants & they mixed other metals together to make metals even harder than titanium that were black all the way through, weird stuff.
Hi Shoestring nice footage and great narrative glad to see you meeting up with Mr Jaw Tooth!!! God Bless !!
I love the illusion you get when the train really gets to hauling butt. Feels like you edited it to 2x speed.
One torrid summer night in East St. Louis someone broke the seal and opened a boxcar that was transferring to ICG RR. In giant wax cartons dozens of raw cowhides from National Stockyards spilled out on the grade and whoever broke into it. LOL Tales from a Special Agent! :-)
I agreeI @anson boisvert
Thanks for the tour,enjoyed see Galesburg up close , tell Gary hello from North Carolina
I laughed so hard when jaw tooth let it RIP, I think he was a little embarrassed when you called it out. He wanted to keep changing the subject. Haha. Happens to the best of us . Stay safe brother!
I hadn't laughed so hard in years! He didn't say anything. I really didn't think anyone would notice. It happened like split second after I started the camera
@@TheHoboShoestring them walking farts that happen sometimes are funny as hell
"Jaw Tooth is like a kid in a candy store"...I feel that Shoe! My grandson and I have made many a mad dash to catch up with one we hear coming. Been railfanning with him since he was 18 months old.
Glad you two are getting to share adventures it’s like sharing a good meal makes it much more enjoyable
Safe travels love your Videos God Bless
Those journals with the doors on them are called friction bearings aka rag burners.
When the oil was used up and the bearing dried out the friction heat would build up till it caught fire and caused what’s known as a hot box.
I heard that "friction bearing" was originally a pejorative term introduced by makers of roller bearings. "Journal bearing" is the "official" name for them (insofar as anything is "official").
That looks to be a nice little town there SHOESTRING! I also like how the tracks are surrounded by sidewalks etc to make it very clean looking.
Always hated rolling in Galesburg on a train because the yard is so huge and hard to navigate but town is nice
love the old cut down SD9 and SD-40-2 looking spiffy with new paint
16:33 - how nice of that engineer to take time out of his schedule to pose his locomotive for the awesome shot.
I watch Jawtooth too...
Good to see both of you guys!
Cool train displays!
✌️ 😎
Navy beans are so good. Ham and navy bean soup is amazing.
Hello Rail Cop...
This is Hobo Shoestring AND Jaw Tooth here... WE are reporting that Car number xxx has been broken into and is spilling its beans 😳
My dad and I were in a rail club ( New Hope Valley Railway, Bonsal NC) and the rolling stock all had those bearing boxes and I can remember many Saturday morning running around with a gallon jug of used motor oil making sure every one had enough to run the 8 mile round trip at 10 mph😂🤣. Much love to you Shoe. I’m a fan of JT as well. Man, much love to you both!
I work out of Galesburg.Those auto racks crew change in Fort Madison IA. That empty intermodal is what we call a bare table. Most of the time it’s cars that aren’t being used. Basically rolling storage. 👍🏻
The both of you are a laugh riot. You're a good team. I'm sad that you weren't elected Hobo King. Just by seniority, you should have got it. God bless the both of you. Thanks for good videos and entertainment.
Excellent Video. Good to see you with Jawtooth.
Keep up the free range videos. They're amazing to those of use who nothing more than sitting at a RR crossing.
i can remember as a kid they used to haul cars , autos on open train cars. i was told later that people started jumping on the train and stealing radios and stuff off the autos...hence they went to an enclosed rail car to haul autos.
27:43 "Boy, I bet that [iron ore] weighs more than coal."
Sure does! Weighs almost as much as iron, since the pellets are about two-thirds iron.
I worked in a feedstore in high school and used to unload boxcars stacked about shoulder high to me and stack 'em in the store. W3'd also get boxcar loads of bagged ground peanut hulls to make steer fattener.
Reminds me of a blues song "Got my red beans cookin"
Come on JawTooth, don't go spilling the beans man.
Beans, Beans, the more you eat, the more you toot__LOL!
Shoestring you should make Hobo map or guide book on how to navigate the rails. So much knowledge about local areas.
Back in the day when my grandfather worked for MOPAC, he would let me go to work with him and we’d eventually wind up in the yard. Whenever they were switching iron ore cars some would fall out the bottom. I would go grab a couple of pocketfuls and use it in my slingshot.
@Michael Harris We could see the taconite spillage along the tracks that lead into the export docks in the port of Los Angeles (San Pedro.
I used to cook bean soup in those bearing oil boxes back in the day
Awesome
Jawtooth must have snuck into that bean boxcar for some munchies.
Shoestring: "So Jaw Tooth & I are here...in Galesburg, IL..."
Virtual Railfan viewers: "Wait. Jaw Tooth & Shoestring were there?" *Checks the VRF Galesburg West cam & rewinds.*
That's a great tag by Hobo Count Chocula at 12:47
This car reminds me of old box car sitting in Ann Arbor. Michigan.