While searching for pics of viaducts, I came across this photo of some sort of British or European train:
It has some very odd-looking freight cars. Kind of segmented, with a peaked roof, and the weirdest thing is that they look as if the segments were made to “telescope” into each other! Can anyone here identify this car and provide some info about it?
Ray Dunakin said:
While searching for pics of viaducts, I came across this photo of some sort of British or European train:
It has some very odd-looking freight cars. Kind of segmented, with a peaked roof, and the weirdest thing is that they look as if the segments were made to “telescope” into each other! Can anyone here identify this car and provide some info about it?
Ray - They are coil cars, used to transport flat steel coil from the steel rolling mills to the car/truck plant where they are cut up and made into body panels and large pressed components. And yes, the roofs DO telescope, which is why they are called telescoping coil cars over here. This is the pattern wagon - originally built in Germany - http://www.gerailservices.com/fileadmin/user_upload/specs/steel_coil/GE124CTSteelCoil.pdf The locomotive, whose class number I don’t know, belongs to EWS - English Welsh Scottish -freight services. The landscape belongs to Wales - beautiful, isn’t it? And BTW, please don’t mix up the United Kingdom with Europe, even more so when the viaduct you are looking at is in Wales. My Welsh wife would have to use the dreaded f’tang on you, if she wasn’t sunning it up in the Canaries right now… Best wishes tac Cymdaithas Rheilfordd Garddiaid Glyn Ottawa PS - you have gazillions of these cars over in the USA, Athearn even make one.
Yes, Terry. We do have gazillions of coil cars here in America but they look nothing like those. None that I have seen have a telescoping cover. The two types I’m familiar with (which are carrying aluminum to Boing on the coast) are a type of flat car with a dome that is lifted off with a crane or gondolas with a curved lid that is also lifted off.
Warren Mumpower said:Like this, eh?
Yes, Terry. We do have gazillions of coil cars here in America but they look nothing like those. None that I have seen have a telescoping cover. The two types I'm familiar with (which are carrying aluminum to Boing on the coast) are a type of flat car with a dome that is lifted off with a crane or gondolas with a curved lid that is also lifted off.
http://www.csx.com/?fuseaction=customers.metal_cars-detail&i=1761
Well, I guess that we do things differently in Yoorup and the UK - our cars here are generally a lot smaller than yours anyhow.
Been to Boeing, too. The museum is a great place to visit!
Best wishes from the country of the telescoping and collapsible cover coil car company corporation.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
That’s one of the 2 types. I can’t seem to find the other one but it’s much like the Aristo covered gon without the roofwalks but with the brackets and lift eyes like your picture.
Thanks, Terry!