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Canadian Railroads > Overloaded?Date: 01/10/21 08:45 Overloaded? Author: cn6218 Photographed at Bedford Quarry (near Halifax, NS) on June 3, 2007. I don't recall if it actually left the loading area like this.
GTD  Date: 01/10/21 10:53 Re: Overloaded? Author: PHall It looks like the truck springs are totally compressed.
Date: 01/10/21 13:53 Re: Overloaded? Author: feclark If you consider the angle of repose of dry, unconsolidated material, which is around 30-35 degrees depending on the material, and extrapolate the visible part of the load, maybe it meets the car sides at the white line?
Fred Date: 01/10/21 14:55 Re: Overloaded? Author: cn6218 PHall Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > It looks like the truck springs are totally > compressed. It's hard to tell in the photo because the trucks are so shaded, but when I deliberately over-exposed the original RAW file, there's no question:  Date: 01/12/21 10:28 Re: Overloaded? Author: tomstp And, look at the thin wheel rims. Should not have been left loaded like it was.
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