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- From: d88-hba@nada.kth.se (Harald Barth)
- Subject: Re: Maximum Flatcar Length?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.135135.22467@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1992Nov16.144840.6429@newstand.syr.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:51:35 GMT
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- The longest pieces transported on flatcars are strings of rail,
- some hundred meters in length. They span over a whole train and
- flex along the line. The longest nonflexing piece I know about
- was transported on heavy duty equippment and spanned over three
- (european) flatcars between them. ~50m i guess, Signal equippment
- had to be removed along the line... If my memory doesn't betray
- me, these beams were used to span the ceiling in a gymnasium.
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- Harald.
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