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Greenville Steel Car Comoany

Schnabel Engineering Associates designed this car for high, wide and heavy loads. You can read about a load movement of 1.3 MILLION pounds at the website of the Arkansas Midland Railroad.

“Schnabel” type flat car built by Greenville Steel June 1957 for Westinghouse to move transformers. The two halves are bolted together for movement empty; are bolted to the sides of the transformer for movement loaded.

 

 
11 April 2006

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