BBCX 1000

Description:

The car is owned by Emmert International. In early 2004, Emmert purchased this car, along with a few others from Alstom Power Inc. The car along with the accompanying caboose have been repainted with the Emmert logo. Alstom acquired the car in its purchase of ABB in 2001.

The car was originally put into service in September of 1972 and was overhauled in 2002. Today, the car is as good if not better than when it was originally built. The loading original loading platform was replaced in 2000 with a longer platform. The new platform is 47' 6" with a load capacity of 410 metric tons. Chris Rouse of Alstom Power provided this update.

The following information came from Lawrence Laskowski
"The car was initially used to move Generation units for a number of 1300Mw electric Generators which American Electric Power purchased from Brown Boveri and installed at several Plants throughout its seven state system territory. Note the cars reporting marks of BBCX which is Brown Boveri Corporation. Eventually through merger and acquisition, the car was acquired by ABB which was the result of a merger between Sweden's ASEA corporation and Switzerland's Brown Boveri Corp.

Specification:

Load Limit	1,000,000 lbs.
Load Limit with 47' 6" platform	820,000 lbs.
Number of axles (33" wheels)	20
Empty Car Length	115' 10"
Maximum Loaded Length	161'
Maximum Vertical Load Shifting ability	14"
Maximum Horizontal Load Shifting ability (either side of car center line)	23"

Photos:

The above picture was found on the RICA page.

Bill Middleton caught the car in Arlington Texas, in February 2008 after making a deliverly.

The following two photos were posted to TrainOrders.com by ArgyleEagle. They were taken on April 3, 2005 in Argyle, TX. They are used with his permission.

The following photos were sent by Grover Pierce. They were taken at the power plant east of Fort Worth, Texas. It was there during the last couple of weeks in October 2004.

The following photos were taken by Chris Butts at the Port of Long Beach on May 2, 2004. They are used here with Chris's permission. The car is shown here repainted with the Emmert International logo.

The following photos were taken by Chris Zygmont during Jan. 2004 at the Rush Island power plant in Festus, MO. They are used with his permission.

The following photo were sent by Paul Bouchard, and used with his permission. The photos were taken on December 6, 2003 in Montreal, carrying a 742,000 pound trnasformer.

Carl Youman sent the following photos, they are used with his permission. The photos were taken on October 27, 2003, at Kasgro. This equipment was released from Kasgro after rebuilding the hydraulics and repainting the equipment and lettering the equipment for Alstom.

The following photo were sent by Carl Youman, and used with permission. These are photos of the loading at the Port of Erie and some at destination unloading. The photos were taken in November 2002

The following photo's were sent to my by Mike Repka

The following photos were sent to me by Clyde Whitaker. Clyde is a brakeman for CSX.

These photos were taken by Bill Heimrick, they are used with permission. This is Q358 heading to Fostoria through Marion on Sunday 2-26-02.

The following pictures were taken by ArgyleEagle in Corsicana, Texas.

The following pictures were sent to me by Paul Lanyi. These photos show the car being loaded at the Port of Stockton for the trip to Wasco, CA.

The following pictures were sent to me by Paul Lanyi. These photos show the car being unloaded. This is one of four shipments from the Port of Stockton to Wasco, CA.

The following three pictures were posted to A.B.P.R. by Ken Harrison. These photos were taken on April 1, 2001 at Wasco, CA. One of the riders told Ken that the load was over one million pounds.

The following two photos were taken by John Bartley at the Port of Albany, NY. The first photo was taken during Feb. 2000 and the second on 2-23-2000. They are from the collection of Greg Ajamian. These photos are used here with the permission of both John and Greg.

The following photos were posted on alt.binaries.pictures.rail by Steven Foster. Steven took these pictures at port of Houston turning basin area Sunday June 6th and some later in June when the car returned empty. They are posted here with his permission.

Pictures were taken before the load was connected.

A special insert is used when the item being shipped can not be directly connected to the schanbel car, this is usually called a load bridge. The load bridge is use when the load can not take the compression from the schabel car. Typically the load bridge is shipped separately, as to minimize the length. It is unloaded from the flat car, and connected to the schnabel as shown later on this page.

Most schnabel car moves require a crew. The crew is used to watch over the load, and shift the load when necessary. The crew uses the caboose.

Views of the car with the load connected, and being made ready for transport.

Views of the schnabel car with the empty load bridge installed. The shoring that was added can also be seen. The last two photos are of the flat car that will carry the load bridge when the schnabel car does not have a load.

The foldlowing pictures taken in 1987, from my collection, were taken by Jerry Sires, and are used with his permission. These photos show the caboose lettered for Brown Boveri before the company was purchased by ASEA, and renamed ABB.

Photos and articles in print:

Publication	Date	Page	Comments
Trains	12/91	24	One photo

Equipment Diagrams:

The above diagram is from the BBCX web page.

The above diagram is from my collection.

The above diagram was found on the RICA page.

Related Patents:

None

Commercial Models:

An HO scale model is available Concept Models. This is an unpainted resin model.