Well, you don’t see this every day – a Soo Line 40-foot boxcar blocking all lanes of a busy highway! Well, it didn’t just get up and walk here, so let’s go over a few scenarios… although the boulevard is wide enough, there is no evi-dence of street running here (except for this boxcar). If it had rolled off the bridge, there would be more damage to the car-body, so there has to be a siding or maybe a customer spur nearby. It seems logical, given the proximity of the main line. Of course there’s quite a difference in elevation between street level and the rails on the underpass, which could explain a few things. Thrift Lumber company is on the left and the big factory on the right says “Preserves,” so both of them are in play…
—Photography by Jim Ozment, captioned by the Editor
