100-ton, 4000 cu. Ft. gondola cars for rotary dump service SEMX 82000-83197
All cars have the following features and/or conditions:
- Ride Control D-7 trucks, 6 1/2" X 12"
- Truck friction pocket wear liners applied
- Transdyne truck side frame roof liners applied
- 100% curved plate type wheels
- No significant damage to ends or corner structures.
- No damage to sides or top chords
- All cars have interior linings applied, apparently when cars were built.
- No evidence of serious corrosion damage.
- All of these cars have rotary type couplers on A-end and F-style couplers on B-end.
Specifications:
Cars in number series SEMX 82 were built in 1982; Cars in series SEMX 83were built in 1983. All cars were manufactured by Ortner.
Cars are 100-ton nominal capacity all-steel rotary dump style high-side gondola cars with flat, solid steel plate floors, fixed ends and interior bracing of sides.
Sides are 7/32" thick plate and have 13-each "hat" section vertical exterior mounted posts which are aligned with transverse underframe members.
Trucks are 6 1/2" X 12" Ride Control D-7 type. Each spring group consists of 8 outer coil AAR D-7 springs, 7 inner coil AAR #-7 springs and one Stucki HS-7 hydraulic spring group snubber. Wheels are 36" diameter; side bearings are Stucki #688BR constant contact type. Bolster friction pocket wear liners and Transdyne clip-on type side frame pedestal roof liners are applied on all trucks.
Cars are equipped with National Castings rotary style couplers, No. FR-205E on A-ends of all cars. These couplers allow rotation of the coupler about the center line of draft (which coincides with the center line of the coupler shank.) This allows cars to remain coupled during dumping operations.
Brake systems are of conventional design with 8-1/2" X 12" body mounted cylinders, standard AAR group E mechanical slack adjusters, AAR No. 18 brake beams, and linkage arranged for hi-friction composition type brake shoes. Control valves are ABDW type. Hand brakes are low-mounted vertical wheeltype, with extended release handle, Ellcon National No. 1600-2.
| Dimensions and weights: |
| Length over pulling faces | 53'-1" |
| Length between truck centers | 40'-6" |
| Inside length | 47'-0" |
| Inside width | 9'-10" |
| Inside height | 8'-8" |
| Height, top of sides to top of rail | 12'-2 1/16" |
| Width over sides at top | 10'-8" |
| Extreme width | 10'-8" |
| Height @ extreme width | 12'-2/16" |
| Extreme height @ corner | 12'-3" |
| Truck wheelbase | 5'-10" |
| Wheel diameter | 36" |
| Approx. avg. lightweight | 58,400 lb. |
| Approx. avg. load limit | 204,600 lb. |
| AAR Clearance Plate | "B" |
| AAR Mechanical Designation | GT |
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