Nice shot M.J. It's been forever since I've seen one of those "Slinky trains" (U-BIRPIT / U-PITBIR). They acquired the nickname "slinky" from the cushion in those coil cars, which creates a lot of slack, especially in the unit trains.. The empty unit coil trains were especially bad as they would often run with 75+ empties. Running them on flat land is not too bad, but I'm sure running them over undulating terrain is real "fun".
Off the soapbox.
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