An All Box Car Union Pacific Train On The Chester Subdivision At Valmeyer, IL.

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An all box car train rolls north on the Union Pacific's Chester Subdivision. It seems that it is a rare sight to see a train made up entirely of box cars these days, and maybe even rarer to capture the whole train in a single photograph.

Photo taken: November 6, 2005, at Valmeyer, Illinois.

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  1. Bill MillierSeptember 13, 2017 at 2:12 PM


    A rarity to see today

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  2. Shelly GundersonSeptember 13, 2017 at 7:55 PM

    It is rare, here anyway.

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  3. Tom GatermannSeptember 14, 2017 at 7:50 AM

    I can only think of a few times I saw boxcar only trains in my life. Another interesting fact about this particular train was that a lot of the box cars were old Conrail ones. There were also a couple old Grand Truck box cars.

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