TTCboy13
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The on the TR door wasn't opened, it's externally covered with some black fabric. The front windows were also covered, except with some white material, and from the inside.
I passed by a little earlier, and the car was gone unfortunately - sorry, no new photos today (of the TR). There was however a fourth T1 car added to the line up of the ones previously posted with tarps. Does anybody know what the deal is with that one? I thought only 3 cars were damaged in the collision.
The new addition is the closest one.
omg is it on a truck or is it being shipped by rail
super excited last week of november
Ok now, I want to do a little logical analysis of this situation..
Delivery is almost certainly going to be by rail to avoid decoupling the cars, which is much more difficult than with previous unarticulated H's and T's. This makes it certain delivery going to greenwood.
This makes for an amusing game.
I can't even figure out how it would be possible to ship it complete from end to end and that is without considering unloading at Greenwood.
Note, changing gauge on the receiving side no longer means it is completed at the factory
Anyway, the few hours to install articulation joints is pretty trivial compared to anything I've been able to come up with. Closest I could get is a custom carrier designed to bend exactly where the TR articulations are and installing a special "rail" ramp at Greenwood (3% grade!) to offload it from the special carrier.
Is there any sign that the siding from the CN tracks into Greenwood has, or could be used? When I've gone by on the GO, it always looks as though it hasn't been used in a few years.
I thought it was a few years ago - at least 5 or 6 years ago since the last one arrived. That's an interesting question of how they moved the damaged ones; you'd have thought they would have used those tracks. Perhaps I haven't looked closely since they left ... but by now, it might be hard to see fresh markings on the rails.They were used to deliver the T1s, and that wasn't allll that long ago..
This is to avoid damage and undue wear. The trucks are not designed to run in the same conditions as standard haul freight cars, esp with prolonged high speed sections and sometimes non-continuously welded rails.
Do the subway cars even have the standard knuckle coupler that heavy rail uses?