Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Power cars

This car provides hotel power to the train. They continue to operate while the train is tied down.

RBBX 63005 (Power car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 200, 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 63005 (Power car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 200, 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 63005 (Power car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 200, 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 63005 (Power car) in the Galewood rail yard. (car number 200, 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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