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From: Kelvin A. White
Can somebody please advise the prototype clearance heights (to the
underside of a bridge) for hi-cube boxcars and double stacks, I want the
former and want to decapitate the latter!
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Kelvin
The following is based mainly on the 1997 Car & Locomotive Cyclopedia.
Autoracks, bi- & tri-level, are typically 19' 0" from rail head to top of
roof. This includes the new articulated bi-levels. But with clearances
being increased to 20' 2" for double-stacks, some auto racks are been made
20' 2" high.
The C&LCyc show typical "Excess Height" Boxcars ranging from 16' 11" to 17'
1" in height.
A typical trailer-carrying flatcar has a deck 3' 5½" above railhead.
Trailers are restricted to 13' 6" in height
The Thrall double-stack well car is said to have a well bottom 12" above
rail head. The Gunderson MaxiStack is described as having a height of 20'
2" when loaded with two 9' 6" containers. Remember containers are either 8'
6" or 9' 6" in height.
A friend of mine, a CSX freight conductor by trade, brought home from work
a poster they had, stating that they cannot let a double stack thru the
Detroit - Windsor tunnel if it has two containers unless they are both of
the 8' 6" height type. One container of 9' 6" height of course is fine.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
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