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Tag Placement and Car Type Issues

The eight axels on this car do not cause as much of a problem as the fact it has two trucks on each end, sophisticated axel pattern recognition and redundant wheel detectors are required in order to properly identify this car.

Tagged or untagged, this Scale Test Car would cause problems with AEI site logic.

Twelve axle depressed heavy flat car and other non-typical axle configuration can cause AEI software to have problems. Proper AEI tags can help.

This eight axle tank car does not have an AEI tag and was unidentifiable by the AEI site.

This tag was applied without sufficient clearance at the bottom, the flange welded to the bottom of the car will prevent some antenna arrangements from reading this tag.

The scale car in this photo has only two wheels and does not fit any wheel pattern, add to this the car typically operates without waybills and can see why the car gets overlooked or not reported/identified.

Tag applied without required backing will be difficult to read at high speeds as the required back plane acts to improve the performance of the tag antenna.

Not common, does happen, reading multiple tags on a single car, only back office applications can sort this out by knowing which car should be on the consist.

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