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Articulated car

articulate car

There it is . . . what on earth is it ?

I’m mysteried about it . . . and about how someone else can access it when it doesn’t appear in my original post ?

It was in the Stockton freight yard the other day. I go by the freight yard every day to deliver truckloads of walnuts to the Diamond Walnut facility.

When I lived in Jacksonville FL saw a lot of these auto carriers at the auto unloading facility they had there. NS ran through my backyard and would see them in their trains also.

Steve Weidner said:

When I lived in Jacksonville FL saw a lot of these auto carriers at the auto unloading facility they had there. NS ran through my backyard and would see them in their trains also.

Thanks for reply. I’ve seen auto carriers . . but never like this.

I watched CN’s Jackson to Memphis auto train last Friday at Swan Lake an it had several sets of those auto racks on it.

The original design was to haul SUV’s… It has 3 levels, Middle level flooring at the ends of the cars raise and lower, to allow loading 3 SUV’s in the bottom of the car… 4 more on the second and 3rd level for a total of 11 SUV’s in each car section… The total articulated set would haul 22 SUV’s…

Blueprints were printed out in one of the model magazines in HO scale, way back when the magazines would print the blueprints of the cars and locomotives…

Above picture was the one I scratch-built many years ago…

Edited to add the picture.

Narrow Gauge Lover said: Thanks for reply. I’ve seen auto carriers . . but never like this.

Fairly common around here. This video has a few of them in the consist and was shot outside of Hershey Pa (yes the chocolate) working the old (and very busy) Reading line to Philadelphia

Rooster I watched the whole video, not one of those cars in the train I can see.

If it’s there,please indicate the time of the car… they all looked like the (now) standard ones with the metal mesh panels.

Greg

two units at 0:50

one unit at 1:19

The 2 articulated auto-racks in Rooster’s video are in fact Articulated auto-racks, however they are not the ““Auto-Max’s”” that the original poster was inquiring about…

Just clarifying…

Yes, that is my point… easy way to tell… the “Auto-Max’s” have “fishbellys”… not one car in the video has that…

Greg

(but now that I look for articulated cars I saw a couple)

Andy Clarke said:

The 2 articulated auto-racks in Rooster’s video are in fact Articulated auto-racks, however they are not the ““Auto-Max’s”” that the original poster was inquiring about…

Just clarifying…

“Re-clarifying Dad”…his topic stated articulated car…yes it is an “Auto Max” in his picture however I was just showing that the “articulated” auto racks are common around here.

However since you want to get technical here is the website with the specs for the “original poster”

https://www.gbrx.com/manufacturing/north-america-rail/automotive/auto-max-ii/

And here are some pictures of mine on the same line just about 40 miles west of where the video was taken of the Greenbrier Leased cars. OH and before you ask “NO THE BRIDGE DID NOT HAVE GUARDRAILS EITHER !”

Love,

Son

Son, I ain’t sending you 20 bucks, either…

But, just to let you know!!! There’s no autoracks on the last picture of the bridge… Just so ya know… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

Andy Clarke said: But, just to let you know!!! There’s no autoracks on the last picture of the bridge… Just so ya know… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

I know ya’ bum!

However Greg may not have know, so thank you for bringing that to our attention!

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On my small phone screen it appears as though the locomotive headlights were on dim setting and no ditch lights, my nephew was suspended for 30 days after a supervisor sitting at a crossing saw him go through like that, called it in and had the train stopped and pulled the crew off and sent them home. Not sure if all companies are like that but the RR he works for is strict.

There were on the bridge, just the new “stealth” autoracks, with invisible paint, so the kids can’t throw rocks.

See, you can’t fool me! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

Greg Elmassian said:

There were on the bridge, just the new “stealth” autoracks, with invisible paint, so the kids can’t throw rocks.

See, you can’t fool me! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

They still are on the bridge and SOB you are good! However the formula is still in “Beta Testing” so some of the formula tested cannot be specific and there are weak points however another beta tester would be nice to confirm the findings.

Can’t sneak much past you…(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Ok here is the formula and before you ask permission (if you would anyway) YES you may use this information on “YOUR” website!

Unambiguous determination of the chemical characteristics of moscovium has yet to have been established.[43][44] In 2011, experiments were conducted to create nihonium, flerovium, and moscovium isotopes in the reactions between calcium-48 projectiles and targets of americium-243 and plutonium-244. However, the targets included lead and bismuth impurities and hence some isotopes of bismuth and polonium were generated in nucleon transfer reactions. This, while an unforeseen complication, could give information that would help in the future chemical investigation of the heavier homologs of bismuth and polonium, which are respectively moscovium and livermorium.[44] The produced nuclides bismuth-213 and polonium-212m were transported as the hydrides 213BiH3 and 212mPoH2 at 850 °C through a quartz wool filter unit held with tantalum, showing that these hydrides were surprisingly thermally stable, although their heavier congeners McH3 and LvH2 would be expected to be less thermally stable from simple extrapolation of periodic trends in the p-block.[44] Further calculations on the stability and electronic structure of BiH3, McH3, PoH2, and LvH2 are needed before chemical investigations take place. However, moscovium and livermorium are expected to be volatile enough as pure elements for them to be chemically investigated in the near future. The moscovium isotopes 288Mc, 289Mc, and 290Mc may be chemically investigated with current methods, although their short half-lives would make this challenging.[44] Moscovium is the heaviest element that has known isotopes that are long-lived enough for chemical experimentation.[45]

Greg Elmassian said:

There were on the bridge, just the new “stealth” autoracks, with invisible paint, so the kids can’t throw rocks.

See, you can’t fool me! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

I was in the hardware store where they lock up the spray paint. BUT…, they don’t lock up the clear.

I asked why this is and the reply was that clear is not used in tagging. So I asked the guy…, “What…, you never heard of stealth grafitti?” Made his day.

they were coating the graffiti for uv resistance