Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Col.
Steel Coil, No Chains !
- Thread starter Eastsidepilot
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Col.
Osgood
Western Thunderer
A linha férrea aqui é mantida por um inglês chamado @Jordan or Plymouth Mad .
Ele aprendeu tudo o que sabe sobre assentamento de placas nesta ferrovia.
Ele aprendeu tudo o que sabe sobre assentamento de placas nesta ferrovia.
Dangerous Davies
Western Thunderer
Chains or no chains, with the state of that permanent way I wouldn't stand anywhere near as close as the photographer did!
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
I've transported steel coil on HGV's, and when you've had to use the brakes a bit more than you'd like to because of some looney tune in front it makes you feel very un-easy 
Col.
Col.
Dangerous Davies
Western Thunderer
This happened twenty years ago just east of Port Talbot Steelworks..........
Biker dodges death by a few inches
A MOTORCYCLIST described how he came close to death when a huge steel coil fell off a lorry on a bridge and crashed onto the M4.
simond
Western Thunderer
There was a biker who dodged death in the M20 a few years back when a footbridge collapsed on the carriageway - I think it was hit by a truck - he dropped the bike to get under the bridge as it fell.
weird. I posted a link.
different link
Lorry driver sentenced over M20 bridge collapse crash
weird. I posted a link.
different link
Lorry driver sentenced over M20 bridge collapse crash
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michael080
Western Thunderer
I don't think steel coils are normally fixed on trains. Given the decelaration capabilities of a freight train, the coils sit quite comfortably in their pockets. Assuming that a train would hit a massive obstacle, it may be the better options to have the coils flying rather than having a massive 2000ton ram.
Jordan or Plymouth Mad
Mid-Western Thunderer
Ok, I had to guess it was Spanish, and get it translated on Google.....
I thought that was quite a smooth ride for a backwoods line!!
Most dedicated coil trailers I saw had a V-trough in the bed the coil was lowered in to, and the orientation was the other way - like American railroad coil cars - so the coil sits with the 'sides' front and back. In other words if it could roll, it would be off the sides, not to the front or rear of the trailer or freight car. But it won't roll, will it, when it's chained down.I've transported steel coil on HGV's, and when you've had to use the brakes a bit more than you'd like to because of some looney tune in front it makes you feel very un-easy
Col.
...oh, hang on, let me watch that video again...
simond
Western Thunderer
Ok, I had to guess it was Spanish, and get it translated on Google.....
I thought that was quite a smooth ride for a backwoods line!!
Most dedicated coil trailers I saw had a V-trough in the bed the coil was lowered in to, and the orientation was the other way - like American railroad coil cars - so the coil sits with the 'sides' front and back. In other words if it could roll, it would be off the sides, not to the front or rear of the trailer or freight car. But it won't roll, will it, when it's chained down.
...oh, hang on, let me watch that video again...
Brian McKenzie
Western Thunderer
Must be Alco diesels, judging by the smoke?
Coils of steel sheet get too easily damaged at the edges from careless use of chains etc. - and get rejected by those with long-run machines producing corrugated roofing and other building profiles.
Coils of steel sheet get too easily damaged at the edges from careless use of chains etc. - and get rejected by those with long-run machines producing corrugated roofing and other building profiles.
Railway wagons either carry coils eye to sky or on their sides and these can be either along a wagon or across depending on the support provided. Rod coil usually loads along a wagon, although they load across some, such as the Cargowaggon flats available as models in both 4 and 7mm.
Coil wagons - Rod and Plate
These days there are more privately owned coil carriers. sometimes enclosed.
It seems to have taken a long time but some of the RTR manufacturer's have begun to produce models of a few of the numerous coil carrier types seen in the past 70 years.
Paul
Coil wagons - Rod and Plate
These days there are more privately owned coil carriers. sometimes enclosed.
It seems to have taken a long time but some of the RTR manufacturer's have begun to produce models of a few of the numerous coil carrier types seen in the past 70 years.
Paul