Racenut
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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.
I asked them once, they said we could get them delivered overnight, by rail it took 3 or 4 days.One of those things that makes you say Hmmmm.....
Seeing a truck hauling RR wheels on the highway. Why isn't it on a train? Hmmmmm......
When I lived along a main line, we commonly seen rr wheel assemblies loaded on cars passing through town.![]()
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CN uses former revenue cars in shop service, delivering new and used wheelsets to its system shops on regular freight trains. These eye-c...tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com
Please post pics if you can.Tragedy in Missouri. Amtrak train collision with gravel truck. Several fatalities and many hurt. All seven cars laid over. This is just a few miles from my farm. It’s the main line from KC to Chicago.