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From: "J DOT Henry Priebe Jr DOT " root AT bluemoon DOT net
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:36:17 -0500 (EST)
Subject: RE: (erielack) EL depressed center flats
"WECX201-Schnabel.jpg" - image/jpeg, 1100x372 (24bit)

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Paul R. Tupaczewski wrote:

>
> Well, look at that! A Schnabel car being pulled by an Erie switcher!
>
> http://southern.railfan.net/highwide/el5-61/wecx201_1.html
>
> Good site - thanks, Ron!
>
> - Paul
>
> List,
>
> I happened across a website with 30 articles on high-wide shipments. Five of
> these articles are on the Erie, including the 1957 one cited above.
>
> http://southern.railfan.net/highwide/highwide.html

Here's a larger view of WECX 201 from the May/June 1961 EL Magazine.

The caption for this photo was:

THIS WESTINGHOUSE transformer moved from
Ferrona Yard to Lima over the high and wide Erie-
Lackawanna early this month, destined for a new
Westinghouse plant at Muncie, Ind. The load was
19 feet high and the bottom of the load was less
than seven inches from the rail. The car, the larg-
est Schnabel car in the United States, is owned by
Westinghouse. With this load it weighed 770,440
pounds; it has a light weight of 299,600 pounds, and
a load limit of 750,000 pounds.

Henry

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