I'd like to see photos of those who have boxcar unloading (and loading docks), in particular those that service High Cubes. And, or, does anyone know of an Intermodal Yard that has a service area devoted to High Cubes.
Anthony
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I would like to see some new ones too. You can do a search for "Team Track Tuesday" and see a lot of loading docks being used on layouts. I have not seen that topic in 7-8 months.
I spent some time in Budd’s Hunting Park plant. This plant made a variety of things, including automobile sheet metal stamping. This plant was cramped for space, so they had an interesting way of loading the high cube boxcars with the stamping. As I recall the loading area had a dock 4 cars long. There was a small yard three tracks wide. When they were loading there would be 12 cars, strings of 4 on the 3 tracks. They would open all the doors and put bridge plates between the cars and the dock and between the doorways of the cars on the adjacent tracks. This way they could load all 12 cars from a four car dock.
@David Johnston posted:I spent some time in Budd’s Hunting Park plant. This plant made a variety of things, including automobile sheet metal stamping. This plant was cramped for space, so they had an interesting way of loading the high cube boxcars with the stamping. As I recall the loading area had a dock 4 cars long. There was a small yard three tracks wide. When they were loading there would be 12 cars, strings of 4 on the 3 tracks. They would open all the doors and put bridge plates between the cars and the dock and between the doorways of the cars on the adjacent tracks. This way they could load all 12 cars from a four car dock.
That's impressive!
