Steel beam colors

[MountainMan]

Thank you all of you! You confirm my thoughts about it. I was just wondering if what I see in modern times was the same back then. There's a large CANAM-MANAC plant shipping a lot of bridge components to the States in Quebec City. Just as you said, it's bare steel rusted at different degree. I think it will make a nice load and a good way to recycle unused Rix bridge girder.

If there's only a single layer of large I-Beams, would they be strapped together? Or strapped to the gondola?

Matt

Flatbed trailer loads are tied down as a group on top of wooden beams, so I would imagine the same sort of process would be used by the railroads.

This might help: