Western Railroad Discussion > Huge load ready to leave Houston on CEBX 800 schnabel

Yesterday, at the Port of Houston, the largest single item, a 570 ton reactor for a refinery was unloaded from a ship to a 36 axle schnabel car. The reactor will be moved by the CEBX 800 schnabel car to Commerce City, Colorado, northwest of Denver.

The CEBX 800 is the worlds largest freight car, it can carry just shy of 900 tons, is 345 feet long when loaded and 231 feet long when empty. This car can raise the load 44 inches and shift the load 40 inches either side of the center line. This shifting is needed to move the load around obstructions found around the route. It weighs 740K pounds empty.

Do not know if it will go via UP or BNSF out of Houston. Targeted to leave the port on Monday.

link to the press release from the Port of Houston.
http://www.irconnect.com/poha/pages/news_releases.html?d=75021

For more information and photos on the CEBX 800 see my web page
http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/cars/cebx800/cebx800.html

In mid February, the Duluth News reported that this car will return to Duluth to move a 678 ton pressure vessel to the tar sands project in Canada.

The attached photo shows the car stored on two parallel tracks in Duluth during May 2000.


Hope that someone gets some photos along the way. Please pass them along, and I will add them to the web site.

Tom
http://www.garlic.com/~tomd

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That thing rolled over the Harbor sub??

I'd have given my left leg to see that.

Tom,
This car has sat at the old naval base here is Charleston, SC for at least the last two years, probably a lot longer. A few weeks ago I went to get some decent pictures of it and it was gone! I couldn't believe it. I would have liked to have seen the movement that took it out, would have been cool to see. Up until reading your post I was wondering where it had gone, so thanks for answering that for me.

Doctor Evil
- Justin Englert
Summerville, SC

"I did not go to evil medical school for six years to be called mister thank you very much."

after going thru the links on that site you listed i saw one for Ontario Hydro, where do they store their special car and caboose?
http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/cars/hydro/hepx200.html
way too cool i would like to see one in action, I saw one in Iowa witha transformer on it but nothing like those cars it was a deep well flat car with lots of wheels under it
these cars are way more cool

Anyone have the schedule for the next couple daze? I'm ready to spend the gas money to see this one.

shtinkypuppie Wrote:
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> That thing rolled over the Harbor sub??
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> I'd have given my left leg to see that.


Yep, one time under the hand of 3rd sweetch IIRC, I had posted a picture of the train at Esparanza but cannot tell you where it may be now.


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TopcoatSmith Wrote:
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> shtinkypuppie Wrote:
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> > That thing rolled over the Harbor sub??
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> > I'd have given my left leg to see that.
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> Yep, one time under the hand of 3rd sweetch IIRC,
> I had posted a picture of the train at Esparanza
> but cannot tell you where it may be now.
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> TCS - httx
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Previous thread of Schnabel on Harbor Sub:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,731382

Craig