Photo By: Kevin Morgan

These hopper cars almost aren't recognizable as hopper cars after a derailment at the west switch of Hudson. There is a certainly amount of dark irony in the advertised "Rapid Discharge" on the side of one of the hoppers. Surprisingly, it appears that most of the coal stayed in that particular hopper.
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Posted By George Houle On Monday, March 23, 2015 At 7:41:11 AM (PT)

The upright car holding on to it's load is the car harolding rapid discharge!  

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Location Information
City or County and State
Hudson, CO

Subdivision
Brush (BNSF)

Milepost or Control Point
West Hudson




Train Information
Railroad
BNSF
Model
None
Unit Number
None

Symbol
C-BTMAMH0-26
Paint Scheme  



Photo Information
Camera Make/Model
Canon / Canon EOS 7D
ISO
200
Flash
Did Not Fire

Focal Length
250 mm
Shutter
1/500 seconds
Aperture
f/5.6


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