Eastern Railroad Discussion > Something different...U.S. built rail cars for export

Several dozen U.S. built hoppers wait to be loaded aboard the freighter 'Industrial Faith' at the Port of Pensacola, Florida. They are standard gauge, so probably bound for Venezuela or Columbia which are mostly standard gauge.

Does anyone on TO know where they are going?

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Well, I just discovered that AARX is a reporting mark for equipment in transit.

What's holding the trucks in place when the crane lifts the car?

Ray

My question too!


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There's straps under the axles. If you look closely, you can see them.


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Good question. I looked at some of my other photos and found the answer.

#1 Before loading. Note..nothing around the axles.
#2, #3 During loading. Note yellow straps around the axles. Please excuse the noise and blur. These were greatly enlarged.

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Did you get a good roster of one of the cars you can share?

What's with the airhose a couple feet above the coupler? From what I could tell, it appears to be tied to the trainline.

-Eric

That line is for the rapid discharge door system. When the cars opener system is triggered the doors open and close all pneumatically

>Did you get a good roster of one of the cars you can share?

Sure did...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/22/12 15:00 by fqo63.

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Well thank you kind sir and happy thanksgiving to you and your family!

Chile..............................

JLSeale

Destination update....

The cargo ship "Industrial Faith", which is carrying the hoppers, is currently south of the Caymen Islands, enroute to Puerto Bolivar, Colombia. She is due to arrive at 21:00 UTC on November 24.



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How many cars are in this order to be expo?

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> How many cars are in this order to be expo?

I don't know the total, but there were a LOT of cars stored in the port awaiting loading. There was an additional long string of cars in the Pensacola CXS yard.

The rest of the story:

There are 150 km of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge connecting Cerrejón coal mines to maritime port of Puerto Bolivar at Bahia de Portete.

The Cerrejon mine is one of the largest open pit coal mines in the world.

These cars have a gross rail load of 315,000 pounds. Must be good track down there, as a lot of U.S. main lines still can't support cars like this.

Edit: there are 175 cars in this group, numbers 101000-101174.

Edit again: a total of 300 cars, 101000-101174 and 110875-110999.

Carl Shaver
Lombard, IL



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/23/12 16:58 by CShaveRR.

CShaveRR Wrote:
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> These cars have a gross rail load of 315,000
> pounds. Must be good track down there, as a lot
> of U.S. main lines still can't support cars like
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> 101000-101174.


Colombia has a pretty decent economic growth rate. Economists estimate it to be in the 6% range. And, they're producing a lot of jobs in their industrial and mining sectors.