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Will this run on 15R

Started by RAM, September 02, 2010, 09:39:27 PM

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RAM

Awesome view of the load overhang as it negotiates a tight curve on the IHB
in LaGrange, IL.

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=TO7xcQq0EXU

Michigan Railfan

Wow! That was cool. What was that anyway? I seen in the description that it wad headed to a refinery in Kansas, but I have no clue what that could be used for.
Also, RAM, I modified your link. You had a couple of spaces that messed up the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO7xcQq0EXU

NarrowMinded

That looks like a cyclonic tower for a oil/gasoline refinery.

NM

RAM

NM You are correct.  It is going to a refinery in Kansas.
It should be there this weekend.


Jim Banner

An H0 model of CEBX 800 would be about 36" long.  It might look a bit odd sitting on a 30" diameter circle of track.  Bit of an overhand problem perhaps.

First time I saw this car was on a bitterly cold January 5th, 1991, here is Saskatoon Saskatchewan.  It was transporting a reactor vessel to an oil refinery on the Alberta border.  At the time, it was the largest load ever moved by rail.  CN took it across a bridge here with a total clearance of only 6".  It is not often that one can lean against a moving rail car to keep a camera steady, but that is exactly what I did to get a photo of this miniscule clearance.  The extraordinarily low train speed was made possible by a GP38 fitted with a then state-of-the-art speed control system that had a lot in common with our BEMF control and could regulate train speed in small fractions of a mile per hour.  It was nice to see a new video of an old friend.

Jim
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