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- From: pierson@ggone.enet.dec.com (Dave Pierson)
- Subject: Re: Maximum Flatcar Length?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.222158.9675@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Nov16.144840.6429@newstand.syr.edu> <2837@tymix.Tymnet.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:17:12 GMT
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- In article <2837@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael Stimac)
- writes...
- >In article <1992Nov16.144840.6429@newstand.syr.edu>
- >cwebster@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Chris Webster) writes:
- >>What is the longest load that can be carried on a flatcar? I suspect
- >>it's about 90 feet, but I thought I'd check. (North American standards)
-
- >Well, your article header asks one question, and the body of your
- >message asks a different question. I assume from the explanation
- >about a class that you want to know the longest load that can
- >be carried by railway in North America.
-
- To confirm what Michael and Harald said, consider the use of "idler"
- cars. As it happens, I saw some "long" beams (girders?) waiting in
- Denver, some years back. Without checking the photos, they spanned
- either two or three idler flats, between the load bearing ones, which
- would make them upwards of 200 feet.
-
- thanks
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