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They really do exist!!

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Posted by mvlandsw on Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:18 PM
This one reminds me of the ramp used to open the doors of the Tyco operating hopper cars.
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Posted by mvlandsw on Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:14 PM
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie had one on their Ellwood City branch. It was located near the bottom of a fairly steep and curving line just before the bridge crossing the Beaver River. It was made of some castings and rail bent to shape.
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Posted by BR60103 on Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:51 PM
One online model railway magazine had a picture of a prototype rerailer at the start of a bridge. Made of steel beams and stuff, it was the same design as the HO rerailers.

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Posted by espeefoamer on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:11 PM
Now if we can only find a piece of track with two large cables connecting it with a large black box labled ,DANGER-HIGH VOLTAGE!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:17 PM
partically HO
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Posted by jrbarney on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:57 AM
Now that we know they exist, wouldn't it be nice for someone to offer them in the various scales ? Were they an inhouse US Steel product ?
Bob
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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:53 AM
I love it! [:D] There's a prototype for everything.

Enjoy
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:41 AM
Sean,

Thanks for sharing, I'm not surprised something like that was found at a steel mill. When one of those hot-metal bottle cars derailed (which happened often at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point), it was a nightmare trying to re-rail one of those guys!
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Posted by Eddystone on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:01 PM
Sorry about that, I think I got it to work now.
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Posted by tstage on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:17 PM
Sean,

That's a no-go for me, as well.

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Posted by markdbrungardt on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:12 PM
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Posted by ragnar on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:21 AM
Got a forbidden notice on this site.
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They really do exist!!
Posted by Eddystone on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:49 AM
Here is a picture of a real rerailer taken at US Steel's Fairless Works, Fairless Hills Pennsylvania in May 2003. Between the rails is a 2 piece steel casting spiked to the railroad ties, notice they are longer. This part of the mill was shut down in 2000-2001, I beleive that the rail is going into the raw coil storage warehouse. You can't tell from this picture but it must work because there were large gouges in the casting where wheel flanges road up on it.

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