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Re: Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load?
Author: Wikipedia is a crappy source.
Date: 05-30-2020 - 08:11

I in Stein Wrote:
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> Need a yard cleck to do your math for you?
>
> Using published figures:
>
> Big boy with tender, fueled 1,250,000
> (wikipedia).
>
> One KRL 3600 schnabel car 740,800 (Umler),
>
> One skid mounted cylinder containing ancient
> nuclear reactor vessel 770 tons (1.540,000 lbs)
> (newspaper reports).
>
> Schnabel total 2,280,800 lbs.

Wikipedia, as usual, is wrong as to the Big Boy's weight. No Big Boy ever weighed 1,250,000 lbs.

4-8-8-4-1 series, numbers 4000-4019 weighed 1,189,500 lbs fully loaded as built.
4-8-8-4-2 series, numbers 4020-4025 weighed 1,208,750 lbs fully loaded as built.
(Source: UP locomotive diagrams reproduced in "Big Boy" by William W. Kratville 1972)

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  Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load? RoyalCash 05-29-2020 - 19:48
  Re: Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load? WebJack 05-29-2020 - 20:16
  Re: Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load? Genl. Buck Turgidson 05-29-2020 - 20:45
  Re: Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load? AZ boy 05-29-2020 - 21:11
  Re: Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load? I in Stein 05-30-2020 - 04:24
  Re: Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load? I in Stein 05-30-2020 - 05:45
  Re: Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load? Wikipedia is a crappy source. 05-30-2020 - 08:11
  Re: Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load? Nudge 05-30-2020 - 16:02
  Re: Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load? Dingo 05-30-2020 - 04:34
  Re: Which is heavier: Big Boy 4014, or the recently moved Schnabel car with its load? Micrometer 05-30-2020 - 05:11


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