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From hauling thousands of Containers this year and last, I figure our car weight for IM's is too high. As an average I came up with this.... Well cars 58 tons or approx 119,000 pounds remember they are dstacks Spine cars 45 tons or approx 93,000 pounds remember this is single platform IM Flat car 48 tons or approx 99,0000 pounds I have done some research and came up with a train weight average of 50 tons per car on IM trains (loaded only). This will get them rolling a little quicker and make a difference between bulk traffic and container traffic. let me know what you think and we can let Dragon know to change it. roba redbeardtheroadguy@hotmail.com
Those are light weight cars. I just got out an old list for a S-MEMWAT1-22A from a month ago. For a loaded QY (5 pack) these cars are upwards of 360 tons! They average around 350 tons a per car. Granted these are load containers. Now a QV or a QW (3 pack well car) average around 225 tons. Again these are load containers. Even a single well car, a QU, still averages anywhere from 55-90 tons a piece. I'd put the average per section for a double stack somewhere around 75-80 tons. When you start talking about spine cars you have QM's or QO's being either a 3 or a five pack car. The old Front Runner single well have pretty much be done away with so we won't count those. The average QO weighs in at around 175 tons. Again this weight is dependent on what weight the trailers/containers on the car weigh and how many are loaded. For example one of these QO's loaded with FAK (Freight All Kinds) weighs in a 222 tons! While another one loaded with empty trailers is a mere 105 tons. Maybe a good average for YD, since we don't have the ability to have multiple car sections I'd say we should average the weight out for spine cars to about around 60-65 tons a piece. I'd say your numbers for big pigs aren't that far off. As normally they don't get much over 70 tons. I've had to switch many pigs back farther into trains because they were too light an created a train compliance issue. So I'd say a nice round even 50 tons would be a good weight. I looked up autoracks just for the heck of it. I figure they should come out to an average of about 75 tons a piece each for a loaded autorack. The M3F and M2D average around 110 tons. But again since we don't have the ability for multiple car sections 75 tons is a good number I pulled up a list for a B-CHIWAT5-05N on the BNSF computer and here is a list of the average empty weight for the different cars. QY - 100 tons QV/QW - 75 tons QU - 25 tons P(Pig) - 30 tons QO - 85 tons QM - 55 tonsOverall Rob I would say you're right as the numbers for some of these cars definitely are too heavy or in some cases too light. Herr Schanbacher
