Re: (erielack) CWR

["Jeff Mutter" <jwmutter_@_comcast.net>]

The methods may have changed since the EL days, but last year I watched a
CSX rail train unloading, and they clamped the CWR rail ends to the existing
rail and pulled the train out from under the CWR, with rollers routing the
rail to the side of the ROW, one on each side.

Jeff


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
> To: "'Paul Brezicki'" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>; "EL Mailing List"
> <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:27 AM
> Subject: RE: (erielack) CWR
>
>
> >> 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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