Strange sort of train, with a caboose/cabin car/hack at each end, but the left one is a rider car and the engine is to it's left, beyond an old heavyweight passenger car.

Bill says it was 40 below (°C or °F?)
[Ha, ha! - it's the one place on the thermometer where they are exactly equal!]
and that the conductor later told him they had the engine fitted with special electronic controls which could inch it along at as little as ¹/₁₀ mile per hour.

Note that this car has load members between the ends, under the load, so it is technically a through-well flat car in this configuration; so who's quibbling?

Incidentally, the ratings above mean that the car is rated to carry a 1,779,260 pound (889.63 ton) load with a light weight of 790,890 pounds (395.445 tons - huh?).  Krupp/CE's original 1980 nominal rating was for a 800-ton load plus 40 tons per light ½-car, or 880 tons fully loaded(!), i.e.: 1,600,000 pounds load, 160,000 pounds light, and 1,760,000 pounds loaded.

The load measures 34.080m x 4.920m x 5.200m = 109' 4¹/₈" long x 15' 9½" wide x 16' 8¼" high.

* - So, what's the LT WT mean?  Decimal point error?  Ditto the Japanese dimension unit - MM - hardly millimeters; try CM - centimeters!

^# - The load at (either) 634,200Kg (or 834,200Kg) = 1,395,240 pounds/697.62 tons (or 1,835,240 pounds/917.62 tons - I vote for the former).

Lest you list me looney, the A1 and A2 designations are from Krupp/CE:

 

[The flags are the Canadian flag/le drapeau Canadien, an American one, blue Husky Oil flags (with a stylized Husky dog - Husky is the Canadian oil company which runs the upgrader at Lloydminister Saskatchewan where the reactor vessel was being shipped), the green and yellow flag of Saskatchewan (the wheat sheaves represent agriculture, their major industry, the yellow symbolizes ripening wheat fields in the fall, and the green represents "bring money" - their taxes are high and it is expensive to keep warm up there when it is 45° below; the animal is either a stylized lion, or possibly a gopher that stayed on the highway too long, the flower is supposed to be a Tiger Lily, the official flower of Saskatchewan, but somehow the leaves ended up looking more like marijuana!)]
{If you detect a wee bit or irony there, it's from Saskatoon, not New York!}

Hey, schnabel fan(atic)s, you'd better enjoy this coverage;
it's using up a staggering amount of server memory!

BIG CEBX 800 NEWS! - Tom Daspit was in the Chicago area, went up to Duluth on a Friday afternoon (05 May 00), and found CEBX 800 parked on two sidings (it was unloaded and split) about 50' from Lake Superior; these are what he calls "teasers"{!}:

Some guys have all the luck!  I was up there in Aug 99 and didn't see it (sour grapes).  Thanks, Tom!

Tom now (Aug 00) has the rest of these photos (he took a lot - three rolls worth - surprise!) up on his site.

Next, along came Bill Tokaruk of Regina, Sasketchewan, with a completely different series of pictures of CEBX 800 from the Co-op Upgrader site in Regina in Jan 1986 and from the Bi-Provincial Upgrader site in Lloydminster in Jan 1991:

(Photos courtesy of V. Schiffer - all rights reserved)

Both sets are from Michael Baier's (MiBa) fantastic German-language site.

    (I always wondered what MiBa meant!)

Uh, oh!  The above meaning of "MiBa" is correct as used here, but it is also the name of a German model RR magazine, Miniaturmodellbahnen!

Also, Kibri came out with an HO model of Uaai #687.9 [their #16502, a 20-axle {2x(5+5)} unit], and a road version:

(Photo courtesy of T. Daspit)
[Thumbnail image; click on the picture for a larger image.]

Tom Daspit was watching TV 03 Jan 03 when he thought he saw a Schnabel car; it was "Enemy at the Gate" and there IS a Schnabel car plain as day about 15 minutes before the end, just before Ed Harris gets killed.  Tom thinks it may be the Preußenelektra car.

Mammoet
(Dutch for Mammoth)

On May 23, 2000, van Seumeren Holland B.V. announced the purchase of the Mammoet group of companies from Royal Nedlloyd N.V.; van Seumeren claims to be the world leader in international heavy lifting and crane services.  Mammoet is claimed as a leader in international heavy ground transport and heavy-lift shipping.  Van Seumeren claims to be the major shareholder of ETARCO (formerly Engineering and Transportation and Rigging Company Limited), which is a North American (Canada) based company specializing in multi-modal transportation and rigging services.  The new company will go forward under the name and logo of MAMMOET.  All of this bodes well for those of us who like such activities and models of such equipment.

Here, from the ETARCO site are a group of images of Schnabel and related rail cars, starting with an 86.5 ton 18' diameter dryer shell moving on a depressed center railcar with double-end overhang and a 174 ton generator on a 12-axle railcar at Halifax ready for shipment to Fort McMurray, Alberta:

(All photos from ETARCO site - all rights reserved
some have been enhanced or cropped.)

Many of these loads are also seen on road vehicles at Mammoet/ETARCO mammoth road loads.

I ran across the term "MAFI" in relation to container freight and checked it out; guess how heavy loads get from the erecting floor to trailers or railcars?  MAFI Transport-Systeme GmbH of Tauberbischofshein, Germany (just north of Stuttgart), where they have an English version; take a look!

Here's another GREAT link; the site of J. Supor & Son Trucking & Rigging Co., Inc., headquartered in Harrison, New Jersey.  Road and rail and heavy, HEAVY, HEAVY!  You just have to go there and navigate the site for dozens of fabulous pix!