Bringing up the rear of a Union Pacific weed abatement train is car Habco International car 214. HABX 214's heritage is fairly obvious, although the specific car is hard to pin down. This car, w... (more)
The Union Pacific's Anaheim Branch was in need of a little weed abatement, and the railroad sent a weed sprayer down to Anaheim and back to spray some weed killer along the right-of-way. The trai... (more)
BNSF 7188 leads an eastbound weed sprayer.
A beautiful Saturday morning finds a fisherman out on the credit river going about his day as the weed sprayer train rolls on by at 25 MPH with a veteran leader doing the honors.
Small train, big country. An SD40-2 assigned to CP's weed sprayer train rockets up the slight grade westbound along the more tangent portion of the Nipigon Subdivision and is approaching Hurkett.
In checking through my collection of Mackinaw City slides I came across this photo of a weed sprayer. Unfortunately, I did not date the slide. It probably is some time in the 1960's. As you can... (more)
Seemingly with all nozzles “on,” a HABCO weed sprayer train works northward on the Rock Island at Holton, Kansas, headed for St. Joseph, Mo.
Two AT&SF F units shove a caboose, a box car and 13 tank cars of a weed sprayer train (note nozzles at front corners of ex-baggage car 199203) at Simpson, Colo.
A Missouri Pacific Weed Sprayer Car, built in Dec. 1959, awaits its next call to serve parked in Union Pacific's Shoshone, Idaho yard. Check out the mixed red and green connectors atop the domes.
Scuttling back to the yard, this weed sprayer train probably is out of track time and eager to clear up. It was good to see a GP35 with a fresh repaint running in classic style. Until the advent... (more)
The Asplundh weed sprayer is deadheading back to Bureau through the massive grain elevators at Putnam.