Superliner 3 and plate H

[Alexandria Nick]

Containers are about 2.5 meters wide. If you want plate H cars, you get narrow ones...

Yes, but the well car carrying those containers isn't that narrow.

Plate K is as tall as H, but wide all the way up. Its for the really big autoracks.

 

[neroden]

Double stacks and auto racks (19'0" ) don't go thru Pittsburgh station. They are all routed via Mon Line on the south side and the Port Perry Branch to bypass the Amtrak route thru the Pittsburgh station. Cars as described could not be used on the Capitol Ltd. or Pennsylvanian.

That should make it easier to put high platforms in at Pittsburgh. (Mental note filed.)

 

[jis]

First we will need to convert the Cap back to single level though.

 

[PeeweeTM]

Thanks Alexandria Nick! You made me search some more.

I looked in Wikipedia's 'Loading Gauge' page and found some drawings in references 30 and 35.

Plate K makes sence for a passenger car. Plate H not so much, I guess.