coilcar commodity class?

[WillPac]

Going thru EVERY piece of rolling stock I have, editing the config files for category class and company, to ensure that any car will work with the CMTM system.

But what class are coil cars? Are they flats (i.e. XF)? Are they essentially covered gondolas (thus XGT)? They aren't Foundry cars, are they? Any help would be most appreciated. Still have 1029 files to go!

 

[colourlight]

As I live in the Uk I,m not an expert on USA rolling stock but as nobody has responded to your post I can at least point you in the right direction. A foundry car likes like a cement mixer and conveys molten metal. A gonderlier, excuse my spelling, is a large open wagon and I believe they have bottom discharge doors and convey commodities such as coal and ore. Steel carriers in the UK tend to be flat wagons of various types. Some have a tent like structure, presumably to keep the steel dry. I can,t say specifically what type of wagons carry steel coil in the USA.

 

[rweber95]

Philskene has coil steel is several of his sessions. He hauls the coils on flatcars. See http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showpost.php?p=667037&postcount=1 for an example.

Bob

 

[whitepass]

Could be ether "LF" or "LG" both are flat cars, from 1961 Car Builders Cyclopedia.

 

[DonMalone780]

I can speak for the Southern USA in regard to steel coil transportation as I live in the Birmingham, Alabama area of the USA. In my area, the steel coil cars are Gondolas, either open or covered (which is normally called a coil car). In coil cars the coils sit down in a trough with a sliding bulkhead to keep the coils from moving around in the car, and the lid would sit down either over or between pins to keep the lid in place with the aid of gravity.

An open gondola is just your basic gondola car that has had racks welded into the bottom for the coils to sit in. There are cross sections welded in to keep the coils from moving to much, and not all of these cars have bulkheads to tie the coils down. In that case the coils in each end would be tied together to lessen movement.

Here in the USA, we would ship tubed steel, flat steel or sheets only on a flat car, usually a bulkhead flat car, which is why when some people load steel on a flat car it turns into sheets instead of showing up as coils.


also a note that I have never seen aluminum coils carried uncovered. Every load I have seen has had to be protected from the weather.

I don't know everything about the subject, only what I have actually been involved in, so to the best of my knowledge this is accurate.

Don Malone

 

[Dermmy]

Coil Cars:

GBS: Specialty Open top car, having fixed sides, fixed or drop ends and solid bottom.

GBSR: Specialty Open top car, having fixed sides, fixed or drop ends and solid bottom. Equipped with roof.

So the RRMods cars would be GBSR

Andy