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The following text was automatically translated from German on Michael Voss' webpage.
Schnabel cars serve for the transport of large and heavy transformers. With the Schnabel cars the charge between the chassis on long lever arms is hung up. Contrary to the smaller depressed flat car the load thus becomes part of the vehicle.
Beginning of the seventies the German Federal Railroads procured two such special car of the kind Uaai 839. They are to today the largest wagons in Europe.
They have 32 axles and to reach with 13 meters are enough for transformer an overall length of 63.28 meters. Depending upon weight of the transformer the total weight of the car up to 392 tons.
The two cars are stationed in the employment use Hagen and from there into completely Germany are inserted.
The load can be hydraulically laterally shifted. At both car ends there are cabs for the transportation companions. Lattices protect the workers against the overhead line.
To make nevertheless overhead lines must be raised be diminished again and again, bridges or shifted signals around place for the giant. On double-railed distances traffic on the Gegengleis is stopped or driven even on this.
With load the Uaai 839 may drive up to 65 km/h, frequently must however carefully and slowly be driven.
The transformer is firmly bolted with the schnabel sides.
Without a load the two carrying bills schnabel sides be bolted also directly with one another. The distance pieces needed for it are carried on a separate flatcar.
Without a load the Uaai 839 up to 90 may drive km/h. The empty car is 50 meters long.
To the constant companions of the Uaai 839 a Lue Begleitwagen belongs.
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