Sunday, April 19, 2015

Chicken Car

The most recent GEICO commercial features a free range chicken roaming the country. In one segment, the chicken is riding the rails in a boxcar. Good friend Jim Rollwage couldn't let an opportunity like this pass, so he put together the chicken car. In the photo below, FRC (free range chicken) is shown in a UP boxcar in the yard at Random on the Forest Park Southern.






























There's story about the tank car next to the boxcar, but that's a tale for another time.

A few weeks after the photo above was taken, FRC had made it into onto the Chesapeake, Wheeling & Erie. The photo below shows him rolling eastbound into North Pierce.































It's hard telling where FRC may end up next. As the commercial says, "If you're a free range chicken...".