This is realy interesting or intermienesting however you want to say it. The car is mounted neat the southwest corner of a building. I have looked and the car isn't connected to the building and is just sitting there on two I beams. This is the B end, Cylindrical hopper HS 1614. :tb-confused:
It's probably a training tool. You don't need a complete car to show what is normally found at the end of a car, especially when that end has all of the safety equipment that you're trying to teach to a class.
I think next time I am in Scottsbluff I will ask someone at the building what this is for. I think I recall this is a credit building or a medical building I can't recall. But like always there will be no explanation as to what it is doing there it prolly was there waaay back and the building owner or tennat left and it, the car end, never left the building. I like the idea of a training type thing, I'll look into this.
Does (did?) a siding go to that point? What I'm thinking is that a siding with a slight grade may have gone to that point. When a car was spotted, it was coupled to the dummy end so it wouldn't roll......? OK, so it's a hairbrained idea, but what the heck.....:tb-biggrin:
No, this is on the north edge of town. The tracks run in the south middle part of town. Good idea about the car at the end of the siding, might be neat to model. That would keep your cars on a hill parked.
