Schnabel car

Okay kiddo, so imagine you have a really heavy toy that is too big to fit in your toy box. What would you do? You would try to find a bigger box, right? That's what Schnabel cars are for, but they're not for toys. They're for transporting really, really heavy things like giant pieces of machinery or equipment.

The Schnabel car is a special kind of railroad car that's made up of two parts that can be adjusted to fit different sized loads. The car has a long, narrow middle section that's connected to two large end pieces. These end pieces can be moved up or down to adjust the height and fit the load more securely.

Sometimes, the loads that Schnabel cars carry are so big that they can't fit on just one train car, so two or even multiple Schnabel cars are used together. This helps distribute the weight of the load evenly across the train tracks and makes it easier and safer to transport.

So, in short, Schnabel cars are like super-sized, adjustable toy boxes for really, really big toys that need to travel by train. Cool, huh?