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One of the worst commodities in a boxcar is rolls of paper, especially when there is a shifted load, against a bent outward plug door. Sometimes there no salvaging it, and a wreck crew pulls it out, and rolls it out onto the ground, out of the way. One time a 2000 lb roll, 8 ft long, rolled off the loading dock, and it felt like an earthquake. Kids threw a fusee onto a loaded flatcar of lumber, and there was no salvaging it, and the car was tipped over and rolled into the clear. They also opened a plug door, and seeing nothing worth stealing, they threw a fusee into the boxcar of DelMonte canned goods, and the entire load and railcar was destroyed. Slab steel is so heavy that it is loaded into open top gons, and is loaded only over top the trucks. Iron ore is so heavy that sometimes a hopper is only filled halfway to the brim, and still the swaybellied, bent, overloaded, long abused ore hopper flanges were rings of fire, and showered sparks, emited by wheel contact with the hopper slope sheet and bay doors. The worst disaster was when a dispatcher did not calculate the extreme weight of a consist of loaded hoppers, that the train became a runaway, with no brakes on the Tragedy of Cajon pass.
absolutely, if you actually run in cab mode.Does a loaded Trainz consist physically react any differently, from that of a lighter, empty consist ?
absolutely, if you actually run in cab mode.
This is an interesting question. It depends upon the capacity of the boxcar that is carrying lettuce. A single 53-foot boxcar can be 286,000 lbs! That's a lot of lettuce in boxes, but there's a certain height and quantity that can fit within a box car. How many boxes fit on the pallet, and what's the square footage of each pallet? How high do they stack?
It gets a bit complicated as you can see... There are other factors that get determined for the simple load of lettuce loaded in a boxcar, and the the load isn't just dumped into a boxcar, and is instead determined by cubic weight.
To take this a bit off topic, this is where it gets tricky too because this also weighs, pun not intended, into the cost of the shipping as well. A boxcar full of feathers, for example, will cost more to ship even though they can fit a lot more because the weight is far less, therefore the railroad will want to charge more for it to make up the difference, and the fact the lighter product is more prone to damage, i.e. insurance liability costs. Bulk items such as bricks and heavy items will cost less because they can make a lot of money on those as they are because of the lower risk in shipping bricks because they don't crush as easily. To keep the prices from being all over the place, there is an associated of common carriers, including truck companies, that has created a special pricing that is all in something called shipping classification codes.
http://www.fmlfreight.com/freight-101/freight-classes/
I found this out when I was estimating shipments of printing equipment, special film and paper, and other supplies worldwide.
Fun!