today i saw 8 6 axle tank cars go through strong city about 6 this evening, they all had roofwalks too i have never seen these before?
Anybody have pics, i was not quick enough with the camera to take a pic train, the train was clipping along at a pretty good speed.
thanks
Daniel
I would suspect that they are at least 15 or more years old. I don’t know of any recent manufacture of these cars. The industry doesn’t like them too well. They have a tendency to go on the ground too easy. Dupont was one customer that had them. I don’t remember the others.
http://www.krunk.org/~joeshaw/pics/pvt-tank/celx/celx6420.jpg
Look something like these?
Did you get any reporting marks?
Ed
Have look at the this website.
Thats them!!!
THanks
man they are massive!
Dan, the CN 5414 is a SD 50f. This is according to the CN Locomotive Roster. I cannot remember what you had said yesterday. Looks like they moved the unit a little further east near a crossing so that the bigger repair trucks could have better access to the front end. I don’t have any idea what repairs were being made. I drove up as close as I dared without interferring and then turned around and left.
thanks for the tanks - I have never seen the 6 axle tanks but I did see the 8 axle monster that is now at the Galveston RR Museum.
dd
By the way, the six axle trucks are claed “Buck eye” trucks…it is cast into the side frame!
Ed
Hey roalnd i took some pics of the unit i will post them on here today!
hey roland that is what i said yesterday![:D]
ttyyl dude
By chance do you know what repairs were going on? They were replacing any electrical or tractive parts. Looks like it may have been something around the coupler/drawbar area.
Likely the Celeanse CELX tank cars that run on the M-AMSKCK all the time. They come from Kings Mill, TX. Not really all that rare, actually.
I do not really know what was going on, there was no one around yesterday evening. i was over at strong for about an hour and saw i train come through, it had a pretty awesoem consit too, a c44-9w BNSF, BN sd9!!, nrex or nerx i dunno which sd50 in up colors, a grey nrex or nerx sd40t-2, a ATSF b23-7, and a BN sd40-2!!! And there were lots of cool frieght cars!! including those monster tank cars!
It seems like having any sort of 6 axle frieght car trucks in use would cause more maintenance pains and require shops to carry more parts.
mononfan865
Norfolk Southern d9-40cw MONON ALCO c-420.
I don’t have any pictures of these tank cars but I will say that back in the 1990s I used to see them a lot. At least every chemical tank train had a few of these. I still see these tank cars every once in a while, and they are indeed very big.
Nice shot Dan!! Like I mentioned earlier, they must have moved the engine this morning to make repairs.
Would that have been FURX on that one locomotive?
I am headed east this evening, maybe I’ll get lucky and see something.
in alliance tx i have seen 8 axles tank cars. i guess they are double the size of a normal tank car but i am not sure.
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http://www.krunk.org/~joeshaw/pics/pvt-tank/celx/celx6420.jpg
Look something like these?
Did you get any reporting marks?
Ed
Boy!! That’s some kinda tank car!
Boxcar Willy.
That web site looks like a winner in a Most Narrowly Defined Web Site contest (“A web site about six- and eight-axle tank cars”). Or is there a web site devoted to cast iron flanged wheels (but not axles) or maybe just traction motor support bearings? [:D][:D]
Chuck
Still pretty cool though, made it to my bookmark list.
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