RE: (erielack) CWR

["Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

> Normally CWR is transported in 1/4 mile lengths on a train 
> consisting of flats equipped with rectangular frames, the 
> rail sits on rollers on the frame. At the installation site a 
> 'dozer straddling the ties pulls each length of rail off the 
> train; I think rollers are placed on the ties also. If 
> shorter lengths are required they're cut at the field, since 
> on the rail train they're all the same length. Gons are an 
> inefficient way of transporting CWR, but evidently EL wasn't 
> laying enough to justify a dedicated CWR train so they used 
> gons which would return to regular steel service once the 
> project was done. Another option for EL would have been to 
> use another RR's CWR train on short-term lease, say N&W's 
> during Dereco years, but it sounds like they didn't do that.
> 
> Paul B


Which makes me wonder about the EL gon photo that Ron Dukarm posted - there seems to be no sign of "rail racks" in them. Maybe these had some sort of low-level rollers that never got above the car sides that can't be made out in these photos?

	- Paul

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