36-axle Schnabel Railcar! Passing 3 of our camera locations!

[@toolsteel8482]

I’ve heard of the 36 axle schnable, but this is the first I’ve seen it in action. Thanks for sharing!

[@RailRide]

Look for a video titled "Meet the Schnablels" to see two of them being transported.

[@timgerard262]

Sweet Caboose, looks brand new. Even has RV air conditioners on top.

[@KutWrite]

Probably sleeps one Schnabel-tending crew while the other's on duty.

[@lawrencewheeler8868]

Probably with Hydroflame/Attwood furnace for those cold nights! Lol

[@paulkandal16]

The move is part of the 15 year decommissioning of the San Onofre Powerplant. The waste parts including this cone is bound for Utah. as part of a $4billion project. The Kasgro group will be back. This is not the first or last time this will be seen in So Cal.

[@cltidball]

Love watching the Schnabel at work, especially when it's hauling around nuclear things. Thanks for posting this!

[@reddog-ex4dx]

Well, now I know how long it takes to get from San Clemente to Barstow by walking. Not that I'm going to try it any time soon.

[@vernicethompson4825]

It's amazing what sorts of equipment ride the rails of our country. Proves that rail is still the best way to transport some things.

[@Millsy852]

i was so lucky to wake up at 2 in the morning and see this at san clemente

[@Texas_North]

dang I was out there from 7pm to 3:30am

[@TrainTrackTrav]

...and rumor has it that this is the first of three loads.

[@dam4274]

A Rail truck escort, cool. Much like a “Wide Load” headed down the highway.

[@espeescotty]

At 3:25...CAPY 1,779,260 lbs. = 889.63 Tons * LD LMT 1,779,260 lbs. = 889.63 Tons * LT WT 740,000 lbs. = 370 Tons The combined maximum allowed weight (car and load) = 2,519,260 lbs. = 1259.63 Tons. Weight per axle = 69,979.444 lbs. = 34.989 Tons. General Electric ES44AC/ET44AC = 420,000 lbs. = 210 Tons. Weight per axle = 70,000 lbs. = 35 Tons. Current standards 4-axle American freight cars, maximum combined weight (load and car) = 286,000 lbs. = 143 Tons. Weight per axle = 71,500 lbs. = 35.75 Tons. * These are maximum weights for this car. This particular load may not weigh that much. Bottom line....It'll still squash a quarter!

[@ErikButterworth]

I do appreciate having that hi-rail truck serving as a forward escort for the Schnabel since they were carrying highly dangerous goods in that decommissioned nuclear reactor.

[@twoody2148]

kinda funny never seen one with a "overload" escort truck :) and even more funny they brought spare "tires" on the train in case they get a flat on the way :)

[@REDACTED4503]

That was the movement of Reactor 1 of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Plant to a disposal facility in Utah.

[@monstrok]

For some reason, I can't get that song "Radioactive" out of my head now. Thanks for the coverage!

[@joeseymour4073]

Haha I hope the song by The Firm and not Imagine Dragons. 😆

[@richkeeshan9757]

Anyone else notice the radioactive symbol on that big tank? Hmm...

[@mapexmac]

@@BNSF_7777_Productions It's not "waste"; it's part of the system that was used in power generation. Likely came into contact with irradiated water during normal power generation operations.

[@jplaw2508]

UN 3321 7 Radioactive material, low specific activity (LSA-II), non-fissile or fissile excepted

[@giralds2016]

your cooking

[@sharkey086]

Yup, IP 2 container

[@Thomas1980]

Fantastic Video 👍👍👍👍 LIKE 👍👍👍😀

[@terrygraham3609]

Love it so much ❤️ love train horn nice loud from Indiana Terry ☮️

[@jbdixs]

AS of 4 PM 5/29 it is setting on a siding at Apex, NV about 10 miles north of Las Vegas, but no sign of a crane yet I don't think any one in Vegas has one that can lift that much. They had to build a new siding off the Main and a large pad and ramp as the Main is about 8 to 9 feet above the road in that area a lot of work and gravel went in to it. Are gravel pit is out that way not working tomorrow, but might go out there and see what's going on. Will up date if I see anything new and get some vids.

[@michaelmccarthy4615]

Its probably one of the inner vessels from the decommissioned San Onofre nuclear power plant south of San Clemente..... Everyone in SoCal sees the cost of that oopsie engineering mistake each month on our electric bill.... there was a missed design flaw that lead to the closure of the whole plant after years of finger pointing. Edison said consumers should shoulder part of the cost.....

[@pdkrace]

good jobs were lost.

[@Gitbizy]

Clean energy was lost.

[@Gitbizy]

Michael Mccarthy payback for all the Californians who vote these liberals into office with their crazy green policies. Nuclear power is very safe and very clean but don’t tell a liberal that.

[@KutWrite]

Not so safe at San Onofre, given the fault that runs through it.

[@monder1060]

@@KutWrite what did they mess up there?

[@fatlarry1184]

Shoulda had Big Boy pull it!

[@shmulikanglister]

18 hours from San Juan to Hesperia. 7 hours from Hesperia to Barstow.

[@jamesburnside3023]

Great video

[@jonklein611]

Used to be WECX 800, I guess Westinghouse sold it back to Kasgro.

[@taslimchoudhary1253]

Awesome Video 🌴🌴🇮🇳🌴🌴

[@Mikey300]

The Schnabel looks like it might be the former WECX 800 that Fast Flying Virginian once recorded with its bigger brother WECX 801 running empty on the ex-PRR main line a few years back.

[@sloop_jon_b]

Yes this is Kasgro's KRL 3600. It and its twin KRL 3601 were purchased from Westinghouse (WECX 800 and 801 like you mentioned).

[@Mikey300]

Sloop Jon B I saw the Krupp and Westinghouse markings on the 3600 and remembered them from the 800.

[@bonnyd.5334]

Wrong. WECX has 36 axles. This one has 20. I'm pretty sure it's the former WECX 201.

[@jonklein611]

@@bonnyd.5334 No, this is WECX 800 with 36...

[@sloop_jon_b]

​@@bonnyd.5334 this has 36 axles. There was some confusion since it was carrying an Emmert banner and Emmert's website lists a 20-axle schnabel (BBCX 1000). We believe things have been corrected.

[@Funkyjbell]

Time, distance and shielding cures any radiation problem lol

[@joeseymour4073]

By the time it reaches the disposal site it will no longer be radioactive. 😂

[@campingeast]

I imagine this came from the power plant down the road in San Juan Capistrano?

[@Millsy852]

it is the san onofre nuclear generating station.

[@average_joe8905]

Yes, the plant is about 5-10 miles south of SJC

[@carolcarol9982]

The Hesperia cam changed to daylight mode.

[@rc4lifebnsf]

Wonder whats in that container that makes it so heavy

[@jasonadams7991]

I hope VR opens back up the Horseshoe Curve chat to everyone. No fun to watch anymore without much talking going on between trains.

[@austin8292]

Jason Po do you know why they did that?

[@terrypbug]

Yeah that sucks

[@joetylerdale]

It's in the description on the HSC camera.

[@timgerard262]

They want you to become a paying member in order to chat. They're testing the waters to see if they can get away with it!

[@superplaysroblox2390]

I love it! I saw it at Hesperia

[@dalestephan6777]

Wonder how radioactive it is..went right by my house..lol . It was parked in Oceanside for months..figured it had something to do with SONGS.

[@schimidt99]

Amazing!!

[@kenb8859]

Night Move🎼

[@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226]

Talking about the slow train out

[@Handlesarestoopid]

Sweet mother mary of Joseph that's huge

[@KutWrite]

"Mary OF Joseph?"

[@stephenhamilton1113]

Is it common to have a pilot car in front of the train?

[@DerekWhite-yx2ce]

I think for special loads.

[@jamesstallings2007]

Nice !!!!

[@Zebrails]

Are Schnabel Rail cars made by Westinghouse?

[@lawrencewheeler8868]

Some by Krupps, Gdr

[@brianhickey5949]

Very cool catch! The one thing that is absent from view is security. I don't believe you can transport without some form of security - I might be wrong, terrorists might want a huge cask of deadly radioactive material :)

[@jonklein611]

Good luck picking up and carrying a reactor vessel, they are quite heavy...

[@billyjoel22359]

It's a reactor containment vessel, can't really use that for terrorism purposes easily compared to spent nuclear fuel.

[@KutWrite]

Probably a few riding in those cabooses (cabeese?).

[@monder1060]

@@billyjoel22359 Is it the vessel itself? I have been told by people who worked in nuclear power plants here in Europe, that that is the one thing you can't do much about and has to stay there after shutdown along with the containment building. But maybe it's an older generation here.

[@mediocrecontent2449]

Not to be rude but what was that private video? (Edit) I’m also the 666th like lol.

[@HerbieHerbHerb]

What the hey? I saw 2 cabooses! HA!

[@Bob.W.]

Didn't look like a pressure vessel. More like a small tank . Radioactive. Energy Solutions. Waste or Fuel? SD leading.

[@focusfrenzy9759]

it is waste, that company specializes in removal of deactivated nuclear reactors, they take the waste encapsulate it and seal it and seal up reactors and transport them to storage sites and take down the rest of the facility. video on their site shows them sealing a reactor core in a huge concrete slug and it looked just like whats in this video.

[@Bob.W.]

@@focusfrenzy9759 That would explain the Schnabel. Thx.

[@ETrain-mv4ck]

That is so huge! I wonder where this was going?

[@lawrencewheeler8868]

Energy solutions site in Ut.. west of the lake (gt.salt lake)

[@SMOBY44]

That's a retired reactor. The lead casing probably accounts for 2/3 the weight. I'd bet at least 1 1/2 million pounds.

[@briancooper562]

Largest load I deigned and was shipped on a similar car in Germany was a 360 tonne (792,000 lb) steel plate mill roll with a 2.4m diameter by 6m barrel, 11.5m overall for steel mills in China. Used in pairs per stand with 2 pair for a mill startup. About $2m each at the time.

[@railyardfilms6491]

Prize of worth from Chase

[@MojaveNarrows]

Is it me or is it going really slow at SJC?

[@mattthebassboy]

I wanna see a train cam in Trinidad Colorado

[@samh3029]

I count 36 axles

[@joepeach997]

Thanks for the correction.

[@TheLegend-vz1hw]

i thought it was going to hit the cali camera

[@TheLegend-vz1hw]

1st one

[@tedpatterson196]

Note to admin: Y'all pan and zoom way too much imo. The best lighting and angle was at about 12:26. Would've been great just to zoom out a tad and lay off the pan and zoom at that point. Instead, once the "star of the show" was in the frame, the angle was so oblique and the train so far away, details were completely indiscernible. We can always pause/ go back later -- you don't need to track/pace the train. Panning for a few seconds on engines and/or rolling stock of interest is great, but please return to a static, lateral view until the train has passed. I still gave it a thumbs up, though. Thanks for uploading.

[@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226]

And makes for a long day

[@danielramsey1959]

Karens are concerned. ...

[@samh3029]

Their probably speaking to the manager right about now.

[@trainzguy2472]

Rightly so because that's a nuclear reactor it's carrying! It's from the decommissioned San Onofre power plant near San Diego. Someone back in the day thought it was a good idea to build a nuclear power plant right on the beach and near an earthquake fault.

[@mapexmac]

@@trainzguy2472 That's NOT the reactor. OMG, please stop with the panic and grossly misguided misinformation.

[@northdetroit7994]

Fission nuclear power generation was the biggest scam foisted on the planet so far.

[@KutWrite]

@@northdetroit7994: This COVID scam will rival that by the time it's over, if it ever is.

[@georgecanham431]

16 trucks = 32 axles

[@surlyogre1476]

Count 'em again. Eighteen trucks equals 36 axles. You're welcome. edit: Not counting the two spare trucks visible on the flatcar.

[@Stokjockey]

What exactly is the Purpose of this Train ??

[@shorthoodforwardproduction7133]

They were moving nuclear waste in that container from a decommissioned nuclear power plant south of San Clemente

[@mapexmac]

Movement of parts of the nuclear power generation station, from San Onofre, CA. It's not "waste", as in spent fuel rods. It's parts that handled cooling water and has been exposed to irradiated water, and therefore these reactor parts are contaminated and have to be handled with precise means.

[@clarence43232]

wow

[@abpsd73]

Surprising to see a pilot truck leading the train.

[@wreckofthehesperas8323]

Will it make the entire trip at this speed? (I hope?)

[@Millsy852]

yes

[@FrehleyFan3988]

What is that? Is that a turbine for a coal power plant?

[@michaelmccarthy4615]

Nuclear containment vessel. No coal plants in California

[@sloop_jon_b]

They're decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. That's Unit 1's reactor pressure vessel. It's considered low-level waste.

[@Millsy852]

@@sloop_jon_b unit 2 and three will be brought on a double schnabel move to save time and energy in 2021. but they would be broken up and then put in the containers. i read the website

[@jonklein611]

@@michaelmccarthy4615 , Reactor vessel, not containment vessel.

[@cking3712]

Where are they headed?

[@Millsy852]

utah

[@Godzilla-cy6cl]

Why is there a random girl that you just posted 😆😆

[@terrypbug]

First fright engines I've seen on this cam. Lol I'm sure they run them but never lucky to catch one live

[@nssunburylinerailfanraymon8563]

Awesome never seen one in person

[@joshbnsf]

She is alive

[@albertcyphers1532]

I'm sorry I hit the dislike button in error. I like the way they stashed the radioactive sticker at 3:02 out of sight of any protesters

[@jhonditch4269]

so only 500 ton no big deal we'll need over a trillion to carry the national debt.

[@DommoPA]

I know that rails weigh 44 lbs per foot, but I still do not understand how they simply dont just bukle under this load.

[@TrainTrackTrav]

Because the load is spread out over 36 axles.

[@meadecountylocal]

Breathing

[@ale.3463]

To bad they focused on the caboose instead of the load in the last segment.

[@4thdistrict720]

Exactly! A rare piece of equipment on probably a once in a lifetime pass in front of this camera and the operator chose to focus on the engines and caboose. A real shame.

[@Millsy852]

Chernobyl train.

[@dannywilliamson3340]

The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!! Transporting radioactive components safely over the rails has been done for decades. That hardly equates to dispersing your reactor core over the countryside.