Pictures sent to TIES by Flem D. Smith, II, former publisher of the GEORGETOWN (Ky.) NEWS. He identifies the top one as an "unusual type car which passed through Georgetown early this spring." Property of United States Steel Corp., the car is called a hot-metal transfer car and is used in a steel mill to transport molten iron from blast furnaces to open hearths. This one probably was being moved over Southern lines destined for a mill in the South.
The other photo Mr. Smith identifies as a heavy generator moved to the new plant of Kentucky Utilities Company at Brown, Ky. He wondered whether the combined weight of car and contents-285 tons-might make it the heaviest load ever carried on the CNO&TP and the System. Heavy as it is, it falls 66 tons short of the total weight of a generator and car moved last year over the C&NW (see May 1955 TIES).
