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Chile John

October 11, 2000 02:39PM

At the risk of coming up with a dumb idea, has the following been considered?
It's apparent that the hopper cars are not coming along as fast as anyone hoped. So in the interim, how about tying a dump truck onto the bed of a flat car, with the rear just about even with the end sill. It could be left on the car and filled with a front end loader. And when dumping, the bed could be slowly raised as the train moved, thereby spreading the ballast.
I don't know the method being used now, so I'm talking with very limited information.

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Rerail, then derail.	Jim Burrill	October 11, 2000 07:55AM
Re: Rerail, then derail.	Fred T	October 11, 2000 09:03AM
Re: Rerail, then derail.	Chile John	October 11, 2000 02:39PM
Re: Rerail, then derail.	Fred t	October 11, 2000 03:08PM
Ballast	Tom Stewart	October 11, 2000 04:38PM
Re: Rerail, then derail.	Brian Norden	October 11, 2000 08:51PM
Re: Rerail, then derail.	Roger Mitchell	October 12, 2000 08:28AM
Ballast cars	John West	October 12, 2000 03:33PM
Re: Rerail, then derail.	Wayne Carson	October 11, 2000 11:23PM

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