Cape Son?

[JazzDad]

(Sure, I didn't have my camera with me.) On the UP trackage paralleling Interstate 10, eastbound toward Houston: a number of cobalt blue box cars in a mixed train. They were maybe 50 feet long, with the trucks set in from the ends. Odd construction. "CAPE" "SON" with some logo between the two words. Anyone know who they belong to, or the story behind them?

 

[santafewillie]

Like this?

If so, they're a commodity mover based in Abilene TX, I didn't know that they had boxcars. Might have been containers set on wheels?

 

[JazzDad]

Hmmm, perhaps. The cars looked a bit like the old HyCubes, but with the trucks set in quite a bit from the car ends. They looked a bit like prototypical timplate. They were not containers on flats or in wells.

I'm hoping to get a photo.

 

[ianacole]

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4574808

and

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4537983

 

[JazzDad]

That looks to be them, from the tiny photos. (You have to be a member to view photos on trainorders.)

 

[tootnkumin]

What is the reporting mark, could look them up elsewhere for bigger pictures possibly.

 

[JazzDad]

Looks to be CASX.