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RE: (erielack) EL "Canstock car"

This is a re-occuring thread over on the Modern Freight Car List on Yahoo.  The "Canstock" cars were designed to haul coils of tin used for making tin cans.  Hence the "Canstock" in quotes.  Tin coils would be very heavy.  A load like this would commonly be carried in a covered gondola but since it needed to be protected from the elements more than an aluminum coil or steel coil it was carried in a box car.  Also, because of their size, the tin coils are difficult to maneuver into and out of a box car with centered doors.  If I recall correctly, the discussion on the MFCL indicated that the coils were too large to be loaded thru centered doors and moved over the trucks of the car.  This means you could only load 1 per car.  By offseting the door towards the ends of the cars, you could load two coils.  Each coil sat over top the trucks.

Josh Blevins
Charlotte NC
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