Re: [CBQ] Height above railhead for a railroad car floor

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The technical info you are searching for is shown in the "Official railway equipment register".Copies can be found at swaps,eBay,etc. and the specs have changed over the decades.

As to train consist makeup there have been ongoing efforts to balance a trains  loads/mtys for many decades whenever station order allows.

Just ask any of the guys on this list what happened on the C&I when all the loads were toward the rear of train. Talk about slack action !

Leo Phillipp

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On Dec 26, 2012, at 9:10 AM, "smokyjoe66" <js08ws62@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

 

As usual, I'm supposing that the answer to my question is so basic and simple that most of you will consider it childish and simple. Nevertheless, here it is:

A prototype railroad freight train pulling a string of different types of cars from various railroads is basically a locomotive pulling a segmented, articulated platform on which is placed loads of many different sizes, shapes and weights. It doesn't seem to matter in which order the cars are placed for the purposes of the dynamics of moving the manifest freight train over the railroad from point A to point B. Hence, it may well be that the first car behind the locomotive is a relatively light, unloaded flatcar.

Question: what are the specifications for the height of this platform above the railhead? Also include tolerances of the specifications, if known please.

Minds like mine think of these things, and often tmes, little else.

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