Hi Folks,
I am looking for drawings Schnabel Car, WECX 801. Has anyone possibly drawings or a 3 D model. I would like to build this car in HO gauge.Thanks for your support.I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2017
I do not have recent issues of the Car & Locomotive Cyclopedia (my most recent one is 1974) but I wonder if there was a drawing or equipment diagram in a post 1980 issue? Perhaps someone on this forum can look at their library for that. I do know my 1974 edition has an equipment diagram with measurements and photos of GEX 40018, a rather different Schnabel car than WECX 801. For example it has four sets of three axle Buckeye type trucks.
This guy's page on Schnabel cars is so chaotic I cannot make much sense of it but for all I know he has a drawing of 801 there somewhere.
http://sbiii.com/rrsch801.html
Dave Nelson
I don't know the difference between the 800 and 801 cars, but an outfit called Concept Models has/had a kit for the 800 car, http://www.con-sys.com/all_schnabelcatalog.htm, and Bachman made a model of a similar car, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z4RFRjEojw.
I scratch built one based on pictures in Trains in the spring of possibly 1974. Definitely the early 70s. I made the ends from two Athearn heavyweight flat cars. and the end pieces from a Walthers depressed center articulated flat car. each end has 3 buckeye trucks and one bettendorf truck mounted on a pair of bolsters. The load is a piece of PVC pipe i ran beteen a table saw blade and the fence to square up two sides. I ran a threaded rod through the load to hold the ends and the mountings for the load. The mounts were fabricated in wood and covered with styrene. The center section is mounted to the ends with telescoping brass tubing behind the rollers the real one rides on and they are not visible. It came out pretty good and is about as long as two 85' passenger cars. I can't emphasize enough that it should weigh about ten pounds based on all those wheels. as it is once in a great while I try to run it as a high wide load at about one mile an hour and usually wind up rerailing it several times.
maxman I don't know the difference between the 800 and 801 cars,
I don't know the difference between the 800 and 801 cars,
801 was built by Kasgro. 800 was constructed by Krupp (Germany). 801 is larger, and at least at one time was called the largest railroad car in the world. It has the larger load capacity, exceeding 800 by about a quarter million pounds in capacity. Both are 36 axles.