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bcdef (79 posts)
Apr-16-02, 11:48 PM (EDT) "werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" i dont know but i am just wondering.
i heard of a experimental one in the 1920's not 100% sure though!
i dont know if they made it to the 1'st class railroads! Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: werent there any articulated bo... Xacto Apr-17-02 1 RE: werent there any articulated bo... bcdef Apr-17-02 2 RE: werent there any articulated bo... Xacto Apr-17-02 3 RE: werent there any articulated bo... GTJD Apr-18-02 6 RE: werent there any articulated bo... ge44tonner Apr-20-02 8 RE: werent there any articulated bo... gokeefe Apr-21-02 9 RE: werent there any articulated bo... tburzio Apr-17-02 4 RE: werent there any articulated bo... Xacto Apr-17-02 5 RE: werent there any articulated bo... Chessie_8563 Apr-19-02 7 RE: werent there any articulated bo... Starlight Apr-24-02 10 RE: werent there any articulated bo... pwillard Apr-24-02 11 RE: werent there any articulated bo... Starlight Apr-25-02 12 RE: werent there any articulated bo... rrlyon Apr-27-02 13

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Xacto (718 posts)
Apr-17-02, 09:34 AM (EDT) 1. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" I've never heard of one, but I wouldn't doubt that it's been tried. Boxcars aren't the best candidates for articulation because they carry heavy loads, as opposed to intermodal equipment. A car that can carry 100 tons needs all 8 wheels to distribute that load to the rails. That said, it would be interesting to see an articulated boxcar made for the Sim just to see what it might look like if they were possible in reality.Cliff Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
bcdef (79 posts)
Apr-17-02, 10:42 AM (EDT) 2. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" well youre right and well i guss it didnt make it how about there articulated passenger cars? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Xacto (718 posts)
Apr-17-02, 02:38 PM (EDT) 3. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" There were articulated passenger cars, but they were parts of a dedicated train set. Maybe someone else has more info, but I recall that some early lightweight trains such as the Burlington Zephyer used a specially designed streamlined loco that pulled matching articulated cars. Here's a pic of the "Texas Rocket" that shows the train:Cliff Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
GTJD (263 posts)
Apr-18-02, 10:38 AM (EDT) 6. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" there were true articulated passenger cars! these ran on the Southern Pacific's Daylight in 2 or 3 unit sets.Uncle Charlie,
Hazzard & Southern Railways
Kanto-Johto System
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ge44tonner (82 posts)
Apr-20-02, 11:38 PM (EDT) 8. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" As for another example of articulated non-intermodal freight cars, the Santa Fe built a few experimental grain cars in the early 1990's. I saw them in service several times, and even have photos of three different ones. Haven't seen them for a couple of years now, so I wonder if they have been retired.
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gokeefe (5 posts)
Apr-21-02, 03:22 PM (EDT) 9. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" NS is running an articulated auto rack. It has standard bogies on the ends and the articulated secion has a single axle under it. I've seen it in person several times. Sorry didn't get the number. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
tburzio (13 posts)
Apr-17-02, 02:41 PM (EDT) 4. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" Yes, there are! It's called a "Trough Train", and it's
for carrying coal. There are 13 cars per articulation,
which is very lucky! http://www.icehouse.net/funnelfan/spctrains.htmTony Burzio
San Diego, CA
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Xacto (718 posts)
Apr-17-02, 04:56 PM (EDT) 5. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" Very interesting car, and it would make an interesting MSTS project.They get around the weight problem by using 125 ton trucks and keeping each articulated sections shorter than a normal hopper car. I'm guessing the advantage is that the car can be flood loaded at the mine much faster than standard 50 ft cars can.Cliff Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Chessie_8563 (74 posts)
Apr-19-02, 01:52 AM (EDT) 7. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" Bring the total of those car's down by one. One broke in half a few days ago Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Starlight (283 posts)
Apr-24-02, 04:15 PM (EDT) 10. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" There's something floating around that Speno or someone has made. It's a really funky gondola that is like twelve cars long. It's basically a big long articulated trough. Unlike some cars though, it's got only two ends, the rest is open all the way. Lemme see if I can find a pic. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
pwillard (56 posts)
Apr-24-02, 09:33 PM (EDT) 11. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" This stuff sort of reminds me of the TankTrain concept for tank cars. (IE; Load and Unload all of the tank cars from a single connection...) They did have to have an articulated connecting feed pipe that lead from car to car. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Starlight (283 posts)
Apr-25-02, 10:40 PM (EDT) 12. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" I can't find the picture of that thing, but the specs were something like this:Created for rail rebuilding companies (widened slightly so a tracked crane would fit in it easily) Five units long (five cars) essentially ONE long gon though. Could be used to deliver rip rap and ballast, or ties. Basically it was set up so the crane could drive along the bottom of the cars without haveing to be moved, or requiring any switching manuvers. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
rrlyon (140 posts)
Apr-27-02, 01:18 AM (EDT) 13. "RE: werent there any articulated box cars in American railroads?" How about an articulated cargo van car instead. Pairs of them look different than anything we have in the archives.Richard Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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