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Re: Help identifying heavy freight flat car
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 5 Jun 2006 23:47:35 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford wrote:
In lugnet.trains, Anthony Sava wrote:
After some relatively exhaustive research, I've come up empty handed in trying
to identify a freight car I saw last week.  It looked so neat that it made me
want to build it, but without a camera I only have my vague memory to work off
of.

I'm hoping that some of you train heads will be able to help me out.

Sounds like it was probably a schnabel with a flat tray, similar to this
http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/cars/bbcx1000/chrisb/bbcx1000.jpg

Better shot of schnabel with flat tray (apparently called a "load bridge")
fitted:
http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/cars/bbcx1000/bbcx1000portho_stontx6_(1).jpg

ROSCO



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  Re: Help identifying heavy freight flat car
 
(...) Sounds like it was probably a schnabel with a flat tray, similar to this (URL) (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)

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