Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

40000 series cars

These cars provide living quarters for members of the circus.

RBBX 40011 (40000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 171, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 143,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 77,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 0".)

RBBX 40013 (40000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 193, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 143,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 77,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

RBBX 40013 (40000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 193, photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 143,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 77,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

RBBX 40014 (40000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 199, photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 143,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 77,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

RBBX 40014 (40000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 199, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 143,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 77,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

RBBX 40016 (40000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 170, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 143,000 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 77,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

I took these photographs during November of 1998 using a Sony Mavica FD-7 digital camera. Adobe Photoshop was used for electronic dark room processing. I've written a custom perl 5 script which constructs these pages from a terse text description file, using a template file.

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