cqaigy2
Super Member
Pretty good picture to me.
There is another slug mixed in with the locomotives on the storage track at the west end, but didn't see if it is coupled to am SD40-2 though. It;s been setting there for at least three years now.I'm not kidding when I say that I thought Conrail had at least a dozen slugs in the yard around 1986-87. They all seemed to be concentrated at the western end of the yard.
We used to haul new wheelsets out of the Pittsburgh area to Progress Rail's facility in the Gary area. We had to nail down 2X4s on the floor for them to set on, and were pretty tricky to chain down. Each wheelset weighed over 2,000#.RR rims being made, forged steel of course. Not sure which country this is in but we do have manufactures of them in the states. This looks to be smaller than our standard RR cars use.
One of those things that makes you say Hmmmm.....We used to haul new wheelsets out of the Pittsburgh area to Progress Rail's facility in the Gary area. We had to nail down 2X4s on the floor for them to set on, and were pretty tricky to chain down. Each wheelset weighed over 2,000#.
There is a Progress Rail truck loaded with wheelsets that parks at a Speedway station in Goshen almost every weekend. The trailer has some special modifications that make it a little safer to haul them, like a pair of vertical bars at the front of the trailer so they can't roll off the front, and groves in the trailer floor for the wheel flanges to set in.