Schnabel Cars

I'm trying to learn more about Schnabel cars (the 36-axle heavy haulers) and any other type of specialized heavy/wide/high load freight cars, the types where there is only 20-30 of them rolling around the country. If anybody has any comments or insight about these cars, I'd appreciate your input. I understand CEBX 800 is one of the biggest, and is now owned by either ABB or Westinghouse, and was built somewhere in Germany for Combustion Engineering orignally.

Edit: I'm in the process of a boilerplate google/wikipedia search, as well.

Hi,

A Schnaeble is a type of car, German in origin, that carries very heavy and bulky loads. They come in all sizes and generally resemble Flat Cars. All are conspicuous by their multiple axles and wheels. Some have depressed centers to allow for tall loads. Often they have to have special engines and routes due to their excessive weight and height.

try a few of these pages:
http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/schnabel.html

or
http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/rrschnab.html

btw the word Schnable in German means beak like bird beak car. as the two end cars carry the load as if two birds were lifting at same time.

I never knew that Alstom builds Schnabel cars.

Peter Radanovic wrote:I never knew that Alstom builds Schnabel cars.

They are a European based company with shops all over the world.

I use to think that Alstom's products were high-speed train sets and lightweight rolling stock.

Peter Radanovic wrote:I use to think that Alstom's products were high-speed train sets and lightweight rolling stock.

There into more than just makeing Railroad cars and equipment they here into just about everything.

check this page out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstom