43000 series cars
Home
Additions
Circus Train
Passenger
Support Vehicles
Train Cars
Index of Units
Links

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

43000 series cars


These cars provide living quarters for members of the circus.

RBBX 43001

RBBX 43001 (43000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 187, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 135,400 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 84,600 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 4".)

RBBX 43001

RBBX 43001 (43000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 187, photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 135,400 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 84,600 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 4".)

RBBX 43009

RBBX 43009 (43000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 173, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 135,400 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 84,600 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 6".)

RBBX 43012

RBBX 43012 (43000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 192, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 135,400 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 84,600 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 6".)

RBBX 43012

RBBX 43012 (43000 series car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 192, photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 135,400 pounds, total allowable gross weight 220,000 pounds, load limit 84,600 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 6".)

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.
Ticket
number
999999

This is an unofficial site without any affiliation with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Equipment characteristics are courtesy of the BNSF Web site query service. This is a free site hosted by Angelfire.


Blue RibbonValid HTML 4.0! Photographs and text copyright © Harold A. Driscoll, 1999. All rights reserved.
Email: <circus@driscoll.chi.il.us>
Site hosted by Angelfire.com: Build your free website today!