I often go on about gauges. this pic is a great example…
http://southern.railfan.net/flat/cars/loads/vessel/canada3/104_0433a.jpg
The cylinder is definitely OOG … lookat the loco beyond.
The guy on the right must be glad that it’s inside the structure gauge!
This is the site it’s from…
http://southern.railfan.net/flat/cars/loads/vessel/vessel.html
Have fun!
…and have you ever wondered about overhang at the ends?
http://southern.railfan.net/flat/cars/loads/vessel/canada2/dscf0027.jpg
http://southern.railfan.net/flat/cars/loads/vessel/canada2/villeroy1.jpg
Both trains include loaded MoW ballast hoppers… I think that this is to provide adequate brake force.
have even more fun!
I noted the routing reference that indicated one of those oversize loads had to take the long way around. There was probably only one overpass on the direct route that didn’t have the necessary clearance.
That’s why prototype roads owned and ran clearance cars. It’s a lot easier to check for tight clearances on a table than to find them the hard way.
I recall seeing several articles about scratchbuilt and kitbashed clearance cars, none recently. Is there a clearance car available in any popular modeling scale?
Chuck
Mantua used to sell a clearance car. IIRC it was a work caboose with a rubber frill around it. Based on a prototype, but the prototype had metal fingers mounted around it. Mantua’s frill would have worked on an HO layout, but appearance was crude.
Then again when you try to put a 19’ high car under a 17’3" bridge these things happen…
http://chicago.railfan.net/cgi/photos.pl/?photo=99a25563.jpg&page=Autorack_oops
Someone did a real good job of squashing cooking foil into a small box to make those immitation Gon loads…
http://chicago.railfan.net/cgi/photos.pl/?photo=99a25599.jpg&page=Autorack_oops
http://chicago.railfan.net/cgi/photos.pl/?photo=99a25624.jpg&page=Autorack_oops
http://chicago.railfan.net/cgi/photos.pl/?photo=99a25710.jpg&page=Autorack_oops
Um… “Don’t try this at home”?
These are from the “Chicago Rails Collection” of the site. I love the explanation included in the discussion…
"Media coverage was scant. Two days later the Chicago Tribune offered only the following brief account.
"Metropolitan briefing, Oak Park, Railroad says vehicles didn’t belong on train.
"Autoracks carrying three decks of new Ford sport-utility vehicles were not supposed to be on a CSX Railroad train that hit a viaduct early Monday morning near Oak Park Avenue, along the Eisenhower Expressway, according to a spokesman for the rail company.
"‘We’re still investigating why this happened, but there appears to have been some confusion about the route. . . . These cars were put on a train they don’t normally ride,’ CSX spokesman Gary Wollenhaupt said.
Have fun 
Woah, I don’t know why I viewed this page. Good luck!