Re: [CBQ] Moving wheelsets

["Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Since only the major car shops (primarily Aurora and Havelock) had presses to press wheels onto axles, it was (and still is) indeed wheelsets -- two wheels on an axle -- that were shipped to lesser repair facilities/rip tracks.  They were shipped on company service flatcars in two staggered, interlocked rows.  I have seen a second pair of rows added on top of the first and tightly strapped down, but I believe that practice was eventually banned as unsafe.

Hol

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of tristan556@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 6:58 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] Moving wheelsets

 

 

All,

Does anyone have any information on how the Burlington shipped wheels to various car repair sites especially intermediate terminals where there wasn't a car shop? Now days I see them every now and then stacked on rebuilt flat cars with special holders

I did a search and didn't come up with much.

Thanks
Tristan

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Posted by: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>

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