Digging around to find out just how 'too high' an MT Autorack really is (with cars on it it measured out at 21' 6" - aaargh!) and started searching for a consolidated reference diagram for AAR plates. This is sheer genius applied - every clearance plate on one drawing, including passenger platforms, and how they compare: http://gritton.org/greg/rail/docs/clearance/AAR_plates_with_UIC.gif
That is a great diagram which saves a lot of searching and also misunderstandings. And it even covers UIC clearances. Thank you for posting this link!
Hate to be a bit of a wet blanket, but that's almost (emphasis on *almost*) too much information. The color coding makes it nice, but in B&W that drawing would be next to useless. It does make me think that expanding that into a "live" webpage with checkboxes for turning on/off all the different clearance sets would be nice. So you could drill down to just the one(s) you're interested in and turn off the rest. I'll still give it 9.0 9.0 9.5 9.0 9.5 8.5 9.0 with a fairly high multiplier for difficulty, and the 8.5 guy being paid off by the Society for Obfuscation, Confusion, and General Hiding of Useful Information. Seriously, I do give the creator props for taking *that much information* and making it *that readable*. A nearly impossible task done quite well.
If I read that right, the basic clearance for a double stack well car would be 24ft 7 1/4in. Makes a N scale tunnel 1.84in high. Yes?
Anyone else notice that as with most everything else in life...California just has to have their own standard !! :tb-biggrin:. I think Californias state moto should be changed to "We dont play well with others" ROFLMAO !! :tb-biggrin::tb-biggrin: .
California standards have more to do with the shifting tectonic plates than trying to be different. All standards here need to be modified because of the earthquakes. The same is true for electrical standards, plumbing standards and construction standards.
Looks like they are missing Plate J & K Plate J being Standard 19' Autoracks. Plate K being Standard 20' 3" Autoracks. -- Although if this was done prior to 2005, J and K had not been adopted yet. J and K have a few more inches of "width", and a higher "height of max width" than Plate H. Interesting info though. ~Ian
think California's state moto should be changed to "We don't play well with others" I thought it was This state has a chemical know to cause cancer in the state of California
According to my 1975 Official Railway Equipment Register, Plate B was adopted in 1948. You can find just about all of these plates separately if you search. I've just never seen anybody make one massive outline of all of them for comparison, including the passenger platforms and UIC. What I was trying to find out (and even this didn't answer it) is what standard autorack clearances were in 1972. As my son the software engineer says, "the problem with standards is that everybody has one".
