http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=13629
What is the tonnage for this car? How many locomotives do you need to transport this load and speed?
Looks like something designed for high-level waste, from the combination of shielding and fins for cooling.
As for effort to move, figure about the same as two loaded hopper cars, but I wouldn’t plan on moving it too fast.
Data on photo shows empty weight of 138,000 lb, loaded weght of 375,000 lb. These cars run in normal freight trains usually with a DODX crew car.
Well, isn’t that just the cutest thing you’ve ever seen??? is is passing through your town???
Did a bit of Research on that car. Those carry the FUELED reactors for the Navy when they are building a NEW ship that uses a Tea Kettle Navy slang for a Reactor. The markings were wrong for one hauling waste it would have been DOEX Department of ENERGY not Defense. Also the Weight was to heavy to be a waste hauler they are designed to weigh a max of 125 tons and carry 2 containers.
That’s neat. I’m glad they’re safely handled by professionals!
What type of locomotive you need to haul this type of cargo? Do you need a special car configuration? [%-)]
1/4 mile of empty cars between this and the loco? Downwind, right?[;)]
I saw one of those in September on the UP line headed towards Kemmerer from Cokeville Wyoming (eastbound). It was right between 2 boxcars just behind the locomotives. And they had it running on a mainfest travelling about 60MPH.
Well, the photo is listed as being taken in Watkins, so that probably means that it was in or very near my town. Still, I think there are plenty of other, better things to worry about, so I don’t plan to lose any sleep over it.
Soo… one functionally ready to run Reactor for a Navy Vessal or Submarine.
cute.
I don’t see what the problem is. It is probably safer than sending it by truck. Unless you give it to CSX…
Even still, you would probably have a hard time breaking it open in a run of the mill train wreck. I doubt an Amtrak train running up its backside would even knock it over.
Those containers are put to no end of testing to ensure that they’ll survive just about anything they might encounter. In a derailment, they would be among the least of my worries.
No, any road locomotive will do.
Yeah, I would imagine they did everything short of nuking one of those containers in Pueblo (at least I am assuming they went through their trials in Pueblo).
I know one test they did was run a SD-40 at full speed into one of the proposed casks they want to use to haul the spent Reactor fuel to Yucca Mountain. The cask Destroyed the locomotive and it all it did to the cask was put a dent the size of a beer can into the it. They are that tough.
They totally and completely destroyed a tractor trailer carrying a cask and the thing bounced to a rest like a beach ball untouched. Such destruction of said tractor trailer would not leave very much driver to bury. Just need a hose.
I worked for 30 years in a naval shipyard, we built and refuled nuclear submarines. This type car and the ones for spent fuel was moved around the shipyard with a GE 50 ton center cab.
http://www.csx-sucks.com/pictures/?MMR.jpg [#oops]
Thanks everyone for the information…