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Re: New train MOCs
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:40:28 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
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> Paul Foster wrote:
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> > I built a couple of boxcars based on your design and they seem long when
> > compared to the Larry hopper. What is the average length of a real life
> > boxcar in feet?
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> Box cars have come in many lengths-- the quintessential box car from around • the
> turn of the century was 40'. Many newer ones are 50'. Some box cars don't • even
> look to scale next to others! So, prototypically speaking, just about any • size
> would be okay.
There is an upper limit on length somewhere in the 80-100 foot range, and
there is an upper limit on height as well. Of course width is the most tighly
constrained. HiCubes (what the B&O boxcar Paul is referring to) look very
wrong in real life, they really stick out.
Boxcars as a proportion of the fleet are on the downswing, though. The market
is changing away from general merchandise so many boxcars are actually in
special service anyway. Most hi cubes carry large bulky lightweight things
like auto body stampings, due to weight limits per axle (and no one seriously
uses 3 axle freight trucks that I know of.
> Of course, the same can be said of hoppers. They have come in
> different lengths as well.
Mine is only a 2 bay so therefore pretty short. I might look at doing a 3 or 4
bay which would lengthen it.
++Lar
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| (...) The enclosed car carriers, Autoracks, are about 90' long, and they dwarf the signle door box cars on the trains that I see. I know...you are talking about box cars, but I had nothing to say about box cars that had not alread been said... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Box cars have come in many lengths-- the quintessential box car from around the turn of the century was 40'. Many newer ones are 50'. Some box cars don't even look to scale next to others! So, prototypically speaking, just about any size (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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