Locomotives On A Ship

Here are some SD80ACe's, heading for Brazil I think.

 

Very interesting.  I wonder whether they are allowed to weld securement blocks to the floor of the ship's hold?

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Makes you appreciate how big some of those ships are . . . Not much chance of me modeling one in a port scene, full size.  That is for sure.

Here are a further three pictures from GBRf which show 66756 being unloaded at Newport. These images provide a good view of how they secured the running gear for the voyage. If you look at the picture of the locomotives in the hold, you can see them resting on the blocks.

 

Bob

 

 

Where are these built? If not in Newport how did they get there? Rail?

Did you read the original post?

I have reread everything in the first entry above, and it says zilch about where these

were manufactured or how they got to Norfolk.  However, I am very glad that something made in American is being exported...heck, just that something is made in

America.

 

The very first sentence; "Last month, five units of an order for Class 66 locomotives placed with EMD……".

These locomotives were manufactured at the EMD / Progress Rail facility in Muncie, IN.

Thanks,

Naveen Rajan

http://www.caterpillar.com/en/...-gb-railfreight.html

thanks naveen, Hot Water must not have slept well last night.

To get the locomotives from Muncie to Norfolk, they were moved dead in tow on their own wheels: 

 

It's all about reading and comprehension.

This was taken a few months ago on the staging tracks outside Norfolk International Terminal.  I drive by those tracks to and from work every day.  Occasionally there is an interesting car load.  Good close up of how they get to the piers.

 

It sure does Lee.  That hold is cavernous. 

 

That is so true. But the guy asked "where they were made" - NOT who made them. The maker WAS in the OP, but not where they were made.

He also asked "how they got to Norfolk" ....and that was NOT answered in the OP.

It took two other members, who took the time to give the correct information, to respond with the answers.

The guy can probably read, but I doubt he can mind read. Perhaps others can. As I read through the OP when I went back, I saw that his questions clearly were not to be answered by reading and comprehending.

Sorry, maybe that is just me, but I felt like he deserved a better response to his query.

Greg

 

What, no big purple boxes?  That was really cool.  Thanks for sharing.

 

Rick

Hi CNJ 3676 • Great Topic

 

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"Given the uncommon nature of the photograph, I thought other forum members would enjoy seeing it."

 

Yes • I agree • Thanks for sharing your knowledge & photos on shipping locomotives. 

Re-posting of what someone posted before. Oops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvyIrsZ7Zhs

Very interesting, CNJ 3676 .... thanks for posting.

 

Very cool ship, too.  Would love to watch it loaded and unloaded. Watching the containers and tankers gets old fast. lol

 

As far as "Hot Water" .... the forum has a "block" feature that I take advantage of.

 

An extra bonus with this thread, at least for me, is seeing that a Soo engine (in pretty clean paint) is doing the towing!

Very interesting pics, Thanks for posting. Putting locomotives down in the hold ought to be better for the ship's stability than deck cargo.

Updating the thread, the next nine GBRf 66s have arrived in the UK and are en route from Newport to Doncaster. GBRf has been kind enough to post a photo taken from the cab of the last locomotive in the consist as it heads for Doncaster, providing us a unique perspective. The working locomotive is 66753, received as part of the previous delivery pictured at the beginning of the thread.

 

Bob 

 

So how many gallons [liters] of fuel do these tanks carry?

6400 liters (1690 gallons)

Class 66 brochure

 

Naveen Rajan

 

From the www.railcam.org.uk Facebook page, here's another view of the new engine move powered by 66753 en route to Doncaster.

 

Bob