They really do exist!!

Model Railroader Prototype information for the modeler
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Here is a picture of a real rerailer taken at US Steel’s Fairless Works, Fairless Hills Pennsylvania in May 2003. Between the rails is a 2 piece steel casting spiked to the railroad ties, notice they are longer. This part of the mill was shut down in 2000-2001, I beleive that the rail is going into the raw coil storage warehouse. You can’t tell from this picture but it must work because there were large gouges in the casting where wheel flanges road up on it.

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Got a forbidden notice on this site.

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Dito

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Sean,

That’s a no-go for me, as well.

Tom

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Sorry about that, I think I got it to work now.

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Sean,

Thanks for sharing, I’m not surprised something like that was found at a steel mill. When one of those hot-metal bottle cars derailed (which happened often at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point), it was a nightmare trying to re-rail one of those guys!

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I love it! [:D] There’s a prototype for everything.

Enjoy
Paul

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Now that we know they exist, wouldn’t it be nice for someone to offer them in the various scales ? Were they an inhouse US Steel product ?
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

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partically HO

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Now if we can only find a piece of track with two large cables connecting it with a large black box labled ,DANGER-HIGH VOLTAGE!

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One online model railway magazine had a picture of a prototype rerailer at the start of a bridge. Made of steel beams and stuff, it was the same design as the HO rerailers.

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The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie had one on their Ellwood City branch. It was located near the bottom of a fairly steep and curving line just before the bridge crossing the Beaver River. It was made of some castings and rail bent to shape.

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This one reminds me of the ramp used to open the doors of the Tyco operating hopper cars.