CShaveRR wrote:Woodchip gons: with dumpers--either rotary dumpers or devices that stand the cars on end (if the cars have an end door at the A end, which a lot of them do).Those old scrap gons: either with an electromagnet or one of those claw-type devices at the end of a backhoe (which can also be used for demolition of buildings, grappling ties, or whatever; I don't have the technical name for it).
Woodchip gons: with dumpers--either rotary dumpers or devices that stand the cars on end (if the cars have an end door at the A end, which a lot of them do).
Those old scrap gons: either with an electromagnet or one of those claw-type devices at the end of a backhoe (which can also be used for demolition of buildings, grappling ties, or whatever; I don't have the technical name for it).
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coborn35 wrote: Murphy Siding wrote: CShaveRR wrote: Woodchip gons: with dumpers--either rotary dumpers or devices that stand the cars on end (if the cars have an end door at the A end, which a lot of them do). There's a machine that stands 268,000# railcars on end? I've got to get me one of those-it sounds fun! It sounds like this would be at a paper mill, which, I'm sure would have a lot of big, expensive machines. Granted, the only wood chip cars I've seen are on the DM&E, and look pretty beat up and old. I wouldn't have been to surprised, if you had told me that someone opened the end door, and unloaded them with a bobcat.Mostly coal and taconite.
Murphy Siding wrote: CShaveRR wrote: Woodchip gons: with dumpers--either rotary dumpers or devices that stand the cars on end (if the cars have an end door at the A end, which a lot of them do). There's a machine that stands 268,000# railcars on end? I've got to get me one of those-it sounds fun! It sounds like this would be at a paper mill, which, I'm sure would have a lot of big, expensive machines. Granted, the only wood chip cars I've seen are on the DM&E, and look pretty beat up and old. I wouldn't have been to surprised, if you had told me that someone opened the end door, and unloaded them with a bobcat.
CShaveRR wrote: Woodchip gons: with dumpers--either rotary dumpers or devices that stand the cars on end (if the cars have an end door at the A end, which a lot of them do).
Mostly coal and taconite.
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Cris_261 wrote: Murphy Siding wrote: Most of the scrap gondolas I see have "CBQ" or "SOU" on the side. That should tell you how old they are.Lately there's been a group of former GN and NP woodchip cars running around the northern half of Utah.
Murphy Siding wrote: Most of the scrap gondolas I see have "CBQ" or "SOU" on the side. That should tell you how old they are.
Lately there's been a group of former GN and NP woodchip cars running around the northern half of Utah.
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Murphy Siding wrote: How are powders, like cement, that would stick to the inside of a car unloaded?
Cement is shipped in regular covered hoppers and in covered hoppers that use pressure to assist in unloading. If the lading is likely to stick to the car, they probably use a vibrator to loosen it.
http://www.trinityrailcar.com/railcars/index.htmlhttp://www.trinityrailcar.com/railcars/hopper\hopper_3230.html?auto=hopper%5Chopper_3230.htmlhttp://www.trinityrailcar.com/railcars/hopper%5Chopper_3281.html?auto=hopper%5Chopper_3281.html
http://www.americanrailcar.com/ariinc/products/manufacturing.aspxhttp://www.americanrailcar.com/ariinc/pdf/hopper/ARI-3256_AMFX.pdfhttp://www.americanrailcar.com/ariinc/pdf/hopper/AMFX_T3272_Through_Sill.pdf
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dldance wrote: ericsp wrote: Murphy Siding wrote: CShaveRR wrote: Those old scrap gons: either with an electromagnet or one of those claw-type devices at the end of a backhoe (which can also be used for demolition of buildings, grappling ties, or whatever; I don't have the technical name for it).Wouldn't the electromagnets also tend to lift the gondola cars as well?They can probably only lift a couple of tons, at most.with the sorry state of some of the scrap gons I see around here - they should just load the whole gon - scrap and all into the furnace.dd
ericsp wrote: Murphy Siding wrote: CShaveRR wrote: Those old scrap gons: either with an electromagnet or one of those claw-type devices at the end of a backhoe (which can also be used for demolition of buildings, grappling ties, or whatever; I don't have the technical name for it).Wouldn't the electromagnets also tend to lift the gondola cars as well?They can probably only lift a couple of tons, at most.
Murphy Siding wrote: CShaveRR wrote: Those old scrap gons: either with an electromagnet or one of those claw-type devices at the end of a backhoe (which can also be used for demolition of buildings, grappling ties, or whatever; I don't have the technical name for it).Wouldn't the electromagnets also tend to lift the gondola cars as well?
CShaveRR wrote: Those old scrap gons: either with an electromagnet or one of those claw-type devices at the end of a backhoe (which can also be used for demolition of buildings, grappling ties, or whatever; I don't have the technical name for it).
They can probably only lift a couple of tons, at most.
with the sorry state of some of the scrap gons I see around here - they should just load the whole gon - scrap and all into the furnace.
dd
That is probably mainly due to the treatment by the scrap yards. Have you ever seen that "Dirty Jobs" episode where Mike Rowe works in a scrap yard? Don't forget all of the stories we have read on here about how they abuse the gondolas.
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