NS 111 and TRAINS artcle about beer

[swinstandley]

The April 2006 issue of TRAINS magazine has an article starting on page 40 titled "Silver Bullet by rail." On page 41 it mentions NS111 as the train from Kansas City to Roanoke that will have tank cars full of beer.  I searched past posts for 111 and found a picture at
http://mswurst.50megs.com/CNOTP/NS-62T_ScienceHillKY_120205.jpg
that is not 111, but I was wondering if this picture is of the beer cars?

Stew

[E.M. Bell]

Stew..

From what I can tell in Marks pic, that looks like one of the unit sulpher trains that runs once or twice a month on the CS. The beer cars are much longer than the ones pictured.

Here are a couple of shots that show the CORX beer cars. This traffic is almost always handled on the head end, and most days you will also see a BNSF reefer box somewhere in the cut (bottles or kegs?)

111 at Talmage Ky October 05..beer cars are right behind the power

[swinstandley]

There is a 1994 picture of NS 111 on page 43 of the April 2006 issue of TRAINS that has a lone boxcar among the CORX tank cars.  The article mentions that Coors ships about 250 boxcars per week of beer in bottles, cans, barrels, or kegs to distribution centers.