(erielack) EL 'High & Wide'

["Michael Dye" <"luxpan_@_hotmail.com">]

Date sent:      	Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:36:17 EST

Michael,
	If you have an Offical Railway Equipment Register look in the 
back and you will see what are called plates, they look like a 
NMRA gauge on paper. These are the clearance diagams that 
freight equipment and their loads must fit in. I have most of my 
railroad stuff packed up getting ready for a move so I do not have 
one in front of me. If the car and load exceeds these then they are 
high and wide. 
Bob Stafford
Hi all,

Just a quick question. Seeing as how the EL was THE road for 'high and wide' 
loads, I was just wondering, how high and wide would a load have to be to 
run as a separate load? I've seen many photos of 'H&W' loads being run in EL 
freights, just behind the power. But nothing referring to how when they 
would determine when it would justify a special.

Michael Dye ELHS #1516


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