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RE: (erielack) EL "Canstock car"
Just passing along the info I heard.
Josh Blevins
Charlotte NC
http://www.pbase.com/stillbre
http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?userid=2240
- --- On Tue, 8/26/08, Paul Brezicki <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net> wrote:
> From: Paul Brezicki <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
> Subject: RE: (erielack) EL "Canstock car"
> To: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>, "Josh Blevins" <stillbre@yahoo.com>, "Paul Tupaczewski" <paultup@comcast.net>
> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 7:08 AM
> Josh, this load scenario is not possible. The B&O cars
> were designed with an
> 87 ton capacity; I've never seen a forklift that could
> hoist 43 tons.
> Something that heavy requires an overhead crane. The coils
> were much
> smaller, and much of the extra tare in the 45 ton Lt Wt is
> multiple load
> restraints. I favor Larry's explanation: offset doors
> permitted simultaneous
> access by forklifts from both sides, facilitating rapid
> loading/unloading.
>
> Paul B
>
> From: Josh Blevins <stillbre_@_yahoo.com>
> Subject: 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.
>
>
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