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(erielack) The EL Hot 100...number one!

List...

And your most-numerous freight car in the EL consist sheets is (drum roll)...

TTX 150000 - 155581, an 89' channel-side flat car built by Bethlehem Steel Car, in Trailer Train class F89f.

The consist sheets have a whopping 688 examples of this freight car, making it by far the most common intermodal flat, and more than 20 times more common than the freight cars seen down at the bottom of the countdown.

Picture...
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/ttx/ttx152852jpa.jpg


Locations...
Systemwide, but mainly in intermodal trains from Chicago to Croxton, NJ.

Model...
Athearn released a highly-detailed model of this car in their Genesis line, most recently in December 2014...

http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATHG29577



Walthers has also produced a model of the F89f flat car, although not as detailed. Another run of the Walthers model was announced recently and remains in stock...
https://www.walthers.com/89-channel-side-flatcar-ready-to-run-trailer-train-ttx-150089-1960s-brown-40-trailer-service



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