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O TTX Dep.Ctr.Flatcar w/Transformer

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For
transporting large or heavy items over land, nothing beats a railroad
flat car. No wonder that manufacturers use flat cars to ship products
or sub-assemblies ranging from transformers to airliner fuselages to
heavy construction and mining equipment.

But how big is too big? That
is determined by a railroad’s loading
gauge
, which defines the maximum
height and width of rolling stock and engines. Great Britain, the
birthplace of railroading, has one of the smallest loading gauges
because so much of its network has bridges and tunnels built in the
mid-1800s, when trains were smaller. In the US, older, more urban
eastern roads tend to have smaller loading gauges than western roads
that traverse wide-open spaces. That’s why, for example, 1950s-era dome
cars were common on western railroads but rare in the east.

Today the Association of
American Railroads (AAR) defines loading gauges in terms of Plate
designations from B to K, with the Plate C height of 15’6 being the
most common. The tallest North American loading gauges are the Plate H
requirement for double-stack container cars and the Plate K requirement
for Autoracks, both 20’2.Over the years, flatcar designers have
devised various means of squeezing the most inside a loading gauge,
with one of the most popular being the depressed center flat car.
Dropping the car floor down, until it almost touches the rails between
the car’s trucks, allows room for larger loads like the huge power
transformer depicted by our model. An even more dramatic solution is
the Schnabel car modeled in our Premier line, in which the load becomes
part of the structure of the car, and can even be shifted side-to-side
to clear lineside signals and structures. But where the Schnabel car
requires its own dedicated slow-speed train, depressed center flat cars
can travel as part of a normal freight consist.

High quality, traditionally
sized RailKing Freight Cars provide detailed bodies and colorful paint
schemes for the O Gauge railroader. MTH makes an enormous variety of
RailKing Freight Cars, including many different car types and
roadnames. No matter what era or part of the country you are modeling,
RailKing is sure to have something for you.

Features

  • Metal Wheels and
    Axles
  • Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  • Operating Die-Cast Metal
    Couplers
  • Colorful, Attractive Paint
    Schemes
  • Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  • Needle-Point Axles
  • Removable Transformer Load
  • Intricately Detailed Durable
    ABS Body
  • Unit Measures:12 7/8 x 2 1/4
    x 3 1/8
  • Operates On O-27 Curves
  • Description

    For
    transporting large or heavy items over land, nothing beats a railroad
    flat car. No wonder that manufacturers use flat cars to ship products
    or sub-assemblies ranging from transformers to airliner fuselages to
    heavy construction and mining equipment.

    But how big is too big? That
    is determined by a railroad’s loading
    gauge
    , which defines the maximum
    height and width of rolling stock and engines. Great Britain, the
    birthplace of railroading, has one of the smallest loading gauges
    because so much of its network has bridges and tunnels built in the
    mid-1800s, when trains were smaller. In the US, older, more urban
    eastern roads tend to have smaller loading gauges than western roads
    that traverse wide-open spaces. That’s why, for example, 1950s-era dome
    cars were common on western railroads but rare in the east.

    Today the Association of
    American Railroads (AAR) defines loading gauges in terms of Plate
    designations from B to K, with the Plate C height of 15’6 being the
    most common. The tallest North American loading gauges are the Plate H
    requirement for double-stack container cars and the Plate K requirement
    for Autoracks, both 20’2.Over the years, flatcar designers have
    devised various means of squeezing the most inside a loading gauge,
    with one of the most popular being the depressed center flat car.
    Dropping the car floor down, until it almost touches the rails between
    the car’s trucks, allows room for larger loads like the huge power
    transformer depicted by our model. An even more dramatic solution is
    the Schnabel car modeled in our Premier line, in which the load becomes
    part of the structure of the car, and can even be shifted side-to-side
    to clear lineside signals and structures. But where the Schnabel car
    requires its own dedicated slow-speed train, depressed center flat cars
    can travel as part of a normal freight consist.

    High quality, traditionally
    sized RailKing Freight Cars provide detailed bodies and colorful paint
    schemes for the O Gauge railroader. MTH makes an enormous variety of
    RailKing Freight Cars, including many different car types and
    roadnames. No matter what era or part of the country you are modeling,
    RailKing is sure to have something for you.

    Features

  • Metal Wheels and
    Axles
  • Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  • Operating Die-Cast Metal
    Couplers
  • Colorful, Attractive Paint
    Schemes
  • Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  • Needle-Point Axles
  • Removable Transformer Load
  • Intricately Detailed Durable
    ABS Body
  • Unit Measures:12 7/8 x 2 1/4
    x 3 1/8
  • Operates On O-27 Curves