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Re: Relative height of cars and cabooses
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:44:38 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:
> > Cabeese are not as regulated as interchange stock, although there are
> > special rules concerning material of construction/strength.
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> Right. And cabeese in hilly country often had to have specially reinforced
> frames because they might have several pusher units coupled on behind them to
> help get over steep grades.
Hence the PRR's early use of all steel cabeese. However, it was illegal in
some areas to put the pushers behind the caboose, they had to be cut in in
front of the caboose. One simple reason why: who cares if a coal car is
converted into smushed coal car, no-one is in it, whereas if the caboose is
squished, then there would have been 2-3 people in it.
One other interesting thing about pusher operation, although "illegal" by the
rulebook, at least some banking (pusher) operations were done with the loco
connecting and disconecting on the fly. The one which there is direct evidence
of is Lickey bank in the UK, with a 0-10-0 doing it at about 30 MPH to a
passenger train!
James
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| (...) Right. And cabeese in hilly country often had to have specially reinforced frames because they might have several pusher units coupled on behind them to help get over steep grades. ++Lar (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)
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