Bluefield Doublestacks ... Lightweights

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Your just all over the place Ed!!! Word I have is that all work should 
be done in August.

Nathan

Nathan Simmons
trainman51 at gmail.com
http://www.t-51.org
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On 6/26/2010 10:14, NW Mailing List wrote:

> I spent Sunday night, 13June, in the Princeton Day's Inn where NS puts 

> up their Bluefield train crews that are laying over. In talking with 

> the crews the double stacks in the Bluefield yard were to be used for 

> clearance tests between Bluefield and Williamson. Williamson to 

> Portsmouth still had significant ongoing work to be completed before 

> it was ready to perform test runs. I'd think the testing to be 

> interesting but not so much a railfan event but as a NS rail physical 

> plant/operations milestone aimed at increasing the value of our NS 

> stock! That is a good thing.

>

> Ed Painter; Narrows,Va living in Russellville, Ar shooting trains this 

> morning at Ooltewah Jct, Tn while visiting my daughters and 

> grandchildren in Chattanooga!!

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> When I railfanned Bluefield about two weeks ago, I too noticed the 

> five doublestacks in the yard (kind of a Wizard of Oz sensability) and 

> figured they were on standby for tunnel tests as soon as the tunnel 

> enlargement project was complete.

> In particular I could see that the wheel springs were high leading me 

> to believe that the containers were empty to give the stack tops their 

> maximum altitude as they traversed the refurbished tunnels. If they 

> don't scrape the edges, then loaded stacks would not, either.

> I don't know if this will be a factor or not, but, as I recall, the 

> containers were on individual well cars and not part of an articulated 

> five-platform single car. On the other hand, the Bluefield stacks 

> photo shows the car to the left with a bigger porch on the left end? 

> Are these five cars operated together even tho they are not 

> articulated? Or perhaps, was I blinded by the Oz light and they really 

> were an articulated set?

> Also, I wonder if the test will include any built in stack sway. I 

> recently  read where the B&O/Chessie/CSX used to restrict traffic thru 

> the Harpers Ferry tunnel to one double stack train at a time due to 

> potential car sway. I have to guess that this tunnel project has 

> tolerances cut quite close and sway of such tall cars could be a factor.

> BTW ... Do we think the test run will be a major railfan event? Or are 

> we thinking that this not a 1218-level event?

> Bob Loehne

> 8007 Maxwelton Drive

> Huntersville, NC 28078

> 800-611-1218

> oezbob at aol.com

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> Bob Loehne

> 8007 Maxwelton Drive

> Huntersville, NC 28078

> 800-611-1218

> oezbob at aol.com

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