Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Pie cars

This cars provides meals for the circus members. By tradition the diner car is called the "pie car."

RBBX 63001 (Pie car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 181, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 127,300 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

RBBX 63001 (Pie car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 181, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 127,300 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

RBBX 63001 (Pie car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 181, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 127,300 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

RBBX 63001 (Pie car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 181, photographed 28 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 127,300 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

RBBX 63001 (Pie car) in the Galewood rail yard, viewed from the Hanson Park Metra station. (car number 181, photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 127,300 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

RBBX 63001 (Pie car) in the Galewood rail yard, viewed from the Hanson Park Metra station. An empty piggyback flat car can be see in the foreground with the Central Avenue bridge in the background. (car number 181, photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 127,300 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 pounds, length 85' 6", width 10' 6", height 14' 3".)

RBBX 63001 (Pie car) in the Galewood rail yard, viewed from the Hanson Park Metra station. An empty piggyback flat car can be see in the foreground with the Central Avenue bridge in the background. (car number 181, photographed 27 November 1998) (Equipment characteristics: AAR car type M530, plate code B, tare weight 127,300 pounds, total allowable gross weight 330,000 pounds, load limit 100,000 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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