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

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

If a lot of loads were behind a lot of MT's and the train went into emergency there could be a jackknife!

--- On Wed, 12/26/12, smokyjoe66 <js08ws62@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: smokyjoe66 <js08ws62@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Height above railhead for a railroad car floor
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 12:36 PM

 

You wrote: "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"

Thanks for your response.

Yes, I have heard about his from tetired Q veterans here in Brookfield Missouri. In the late 1970s there was a coal mine near Unionville, Missouri, which was on the north end of the Laclede-- Unionville branch. The North local would bring 20-30 hopper cars loaded with coal to Laclede and then on into the Brookfield yard, just 5 miles east of Laclede. Then, they would be placed on the REAR END of the manifest freight train to St. Joseph the next day. The engineers, and trainmen, who caught that St. Joseph train still talk bitterlyabout the unwieldy, raucous dynamics . It was safe, of course if the rules were obeyed, but it was not a pleasant ride.

~ John A. Swearingen

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--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, qutlx1@... wrote:
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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.
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> As to train consist makeup there have been ongoing efforts to balance a trains loads/mtys for many decades whenever station order allows.
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> 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 !
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> Leo Phillipp
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Dec 26, 2012, at 9:10 AM, "smokyjoe66" <js08ws62@...> wrote:
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> > 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:
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> > 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.
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> > Question: what are the specifications for the height of this platform above the railhead? Also include tolerances of the specifications, if known please.
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> > Minds like mine think of these things, and often tmes, little else.
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