Awesome view of the load overhang as it negotiates a tight curve on the IHB
in LaGrange, IL.
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=TO7xcQq0EXU
Wow! That was cool. What was that anyway? I seen in the description that it wad headed to a refinery in Kansas, but I have no clue what that could be used for.
Also, RAM, I modified your link. You had a couple of spaces that messed up the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO7xcQq0EXU
That looks like a cyclonic tower for a oil/gasoline refinery.
NM
NM You are correct. It is going to a refinery in Kansas.
It should be there this weekend.
An H0 model of CEBX 800 would be about 36" long. It might look a bit odd sitting on a 30" diameter circle of track. Bit of an overhand problem perhaps.
First time I saw this car was on a bitterly cold January 5th, 1991, here is Saskatoon Saskatchewan. It was transporting a reactor vessel to an oil refinery on the Alberta border. At the time, it was the largest load ever moved by rail. CN took it across a bridge here with a total clearance of only 6". It is not often that one can lean against a moving rail car to keep a camera steady, but that is exactly what I did to get a photo of this miniscule clearance. The extraordinarily low train speed was made possible by a GP38 fitted with a then state-of-the-art speed control system that had a lot in common with our BEMF control and could regulate train speed in small fractions of a mile per hour. It was nice to see a new video of an old friend.
Jim