 | Huge Railroad Car| OFF-Topic / Misc. Discuss Huge Railroad Car in the Current forums; I saw this on the railroad website I frequent.
This is "something" going up to a refinery in ... |
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12-28-2005, 11:26 PM
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| Huge Railroad Car
I saw this on the railroad website I frequent.
This is "something" going up to a refinery in Canada. http://www.lswci.com/schnabel2005.html
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12-29-2005, 04:54 AM
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12-29-2005, 07:33 AM
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12-29-2005, 08:15 AM
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12-29-2005, 11:42 AM
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12-29-2005, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Pisis that's a big HO model! |
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12-29-2005, 01:00 PM
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12-29-2005, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by evangilder Wow! that thing is humungous! Not very often you see cabooses used anymore either. |
Looks like they've got a pretty large crew on this train since many crews now only consist of an engineer and conductor. Perhaps the caboose is being used to "house" them during the trip.
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12-29-2005, 11:59 PM
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| Yes, the caboose is for the crew for the Schnabel car and probably someone from the manufacturer of the refinery "vessel".
The RR changes the engineers at scheduled stops, so they dont need a caboose to live in.
The largest Schnabel car in operation, owned by ABB, carries road number CEBX 800, and is used in North America. It has 36 axles (18 for each half). Each half contains nine trucks which are connected by a complex system of span bolsters. Its tare (unloaded) weight is 370 tons. When empty, this car measures 231 ft 8 in (70.6 m) in length.
I looked closer at the pictures and this is CEBX800
Heres some more views of this. http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel...0/cebx800.html
Figures this was built by Krupp!
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12-30-2005, 07:53 AM
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12-30-2005, 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 Figures this was built by Krupp! | Well they have experience from building the large railroad cannons in WW2!
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12-30-2005, 04:21 PM
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| That is outragous and what the hell is the load
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12-30-2005, 04:32 PM
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