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Brian Norden

October 11, 2000 08:51PM

Putting a dump truck on a flat car (or even a speical car) has been used at other places. This seems only works when the distance to travel is short and there is no other way of getting the rock in to the site. Other difficulties involve getting the truck up on the flat car; that is why I recall once seeing a picture of a very low flow car being used by a contractor.
Another problem is the quanity of rock moved in a dump truck. From my experience it takes two deliveries by a double-bottom dump truck rig to fill up a standard gauge 35'ballast hopper.
Brian Norden

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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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