[PRR-talk] How many shovels of iron ore does it take to fill an H-21?

[The Mahlkovs]

There are shovels, and then there are Shovels. Here in Port St. Joe we have 
a barge to rail transfer with a shovel capable of taking a 50 ton load of 
coal out of a barge. So, two shovelfuls of ore from a large loader or 
steamshovel might well be correct.

Gregg Mahlkov

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hayden" <thayden at keithley.com>
To: <prr-talk at dsop.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [PRR-talk] How many shovels of iron ore does it take to fill an 
H-21?


 It's been just a few weeks since I last watched the "Ore Train" video, and
 I recall that the H21's looked almost empty. There are several views from
 above looking into the cars and I would say that in terms of volume the
 cars were less than 25% full. And the loads did consist of two piles, one
 over each truck.

 Tom Hayden