by rovetherr
John_Perkowski wrote:I've even read on the Internet where a spacer was added behind a private car for the end of train device so the private car owner wouldn't have to have it on their coupler.This practice, at least in my experience, isn't about the owner of the car not wanting a marker on their car. On many passenger cars the drawbar doesn't have the necessary casting holes for mounting a modern two-way marker. And, most also don't have the vertical clearance needed between the drawbar and the bottom of the platform/bridge plate to clear a double shelf coupler let alone a 2 - 2 1/2 foot high marker. Both of these reasons are why when we move our passenger cars around on the VTR there are spacers on both ends. Sometimes the crew building the train will use something other than a box car, but box cars are reliably bottom shelf or no shelf equipped and we have a lot of them kicking around so they get used more often than not.
paddy
DSLE to the stars!
My RR pics
DSLE to the stars!
My RR pics
Jack Donaghy wrote:I'm already not liking some of these people, reminds me of being on the bus