MAMMOET

Formerly ETARCO

Formerly Reliance Trucking

Formerly Frank Hake Rigging

Description:

This schnabel car body was built Formerly Frank Hake Rigging to be used on top of two 12 axle flat cars. In 1995 ETARCO (Engineered Transportation and Rigging Company Limited) rebuilt the schnabel (which was purchased from Reliance Trucking of Pheonix, Arizona) using some parts from the frame and built two new Schnabel carriers specially designed to carry 400 ton Steam Generators.

In 2001 MAMMOET purchased ETARCO

Specification:

Capacity

 

Light Weight

 

Load Limit

 

Number of axles (33" wheels)

12

Empty Car Length

 

Maximum Loaded Length

 

Maximum Vertical Load Shifting ability

Unknown

Maximum Horizontal Load Shifting ability (either side of car center line)

Unknown

 

Photos:

The schnabel carrier is mounted on two BAWX100-103 series flat cars carring 400 ton steam generators. The two photos below were sent to me by Don Mahnke.

Schnabel carrier on 2x12 axle railcars moving a 350 ton transformer from Illinois to Guelph, Ontario. This photo found on the ETARCO web site. It shows the carrier before it was rebuilt. Again on BAWX100-103 series flat cars.

In the Ties article below, one of the flat cars appears to be marked D & H 16153. It appears very simular to this car D & H 16156.

This setup was also used in part of the shipment of the reactors to Three Mile Island, by Frank Hake Rigging.

The following information and photos were sent by Ned Thomas of York, PA. I have had these for a couple of years, but after scanning the slides, I miss labeled the CD, and just recently found them.

Reactor built by Babcock & Wilcox in Chattanooga, Tennessee, it was shipped via barge on the Tennessee River to the Ohio River. Down the Ohio River to the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. Around Florida, and up the east coast and into the Chesapeake Bay. At Havre de Grace, MD, on the mouth of the Susquehanna River it was loaded onto a truck and moved to York, PA. on the road by Frank Hake Rigging.

These slides show the move from Dallastown, PA (7 miles south of York) into York center city. Then it being loaded on to rail car and the trip to Cly interlocking north of York.

The rail trip was the shortest part of the journey. You can see the vapor form the TMI cooling towers from the York loading site.

The loading site in York is next to the old PRR passenger station. This is the Northern Central Railway branch of the PRR. The line runs north to WAGO Junction on the PRR port Road. The train had to go north to CLY interlocking to switch onto the Port Road to TMI south of Middletown, PA. The Port Road was electrified at this time.

The York unloading site was used many times by Frank Hake to move transformers and generator to Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station near Delta, PA.

The Northern Central Branch of the PRR became the Maryland and Pennsylvania RR, later YorkRail, and is now part of the Genesee & Wyoming RR.

Photos and articles in print:

Publication Page Date Title
Ties

4

5/6-71

1 photo and text
Ties

4

1/2-70

Mammoth Reactor Rides Southern's Rails - 8 photos
Trains

15

5-70

Two photos

Equipment Diagrams:

None

Related Patents:

Patents are a good place to find diagrams.

None

Commercial Models:

None

Scratch Built Models:

The following two photo were sent to me by Don Mahnke of his O scale model of this car.