Flat Cars

No numbers but I suspect that any fifty-foot flat will work just fine. I would try using that as a search parameter.

That's the problem im having most of the flat cars ate carrying loads.

Remove them, I have done that many times.

Menards

Here are Menard's flats. I made wheel chocks using Anderson window mullions.

Since the M! Battle Tanks are so VERY heavy (30+ tons?), the DODX flat cars that carry them have 6 wheel Buckeye trucks. Are models of such flat cars available in O Scale?

Can't you buy some six wheel trucks and add to a long flat?

@DMASSO posted:

Can't you buy some six wheel trucks and add to a long flat?

Does anybody make Buckeye six wheel trucks for separate sale? All I've ever seen are six wheel passenger car trucks (MTH) for separate sale.

@GI-Joe posted:

Hi need some manufacturers part numbers for flat cars to hold 2 M1 Tanks?

Thanks

K-Line 6991 - AT&SF flat car

K-Line 6992 - C&O flat car.

John

Thank you

Those are what im looking for but what's the part number?

The length of an Abrams tank hull is 26 feet without the gun pointer forward or to the rear.  So you won't be able to get w tanks o a 50-foot flatcar.  When the Marines loaded their per-positioning ships here their armored vehicles arrived 2 per 80-foot flatcar.

Jan

@Hot Water posted:

Since the M! Battle Tanks are so VERY heavy (30+ tons?), the DODX flat cars that carry them have 6 wheel Buckeye trucks. Are models of such flat cars available in O Scale?

From an article in Popular Mechanics - U.S. Army The Department of Defense's chief weapons tester is concerned the M1 Abrams tank is getting too heavy. The tank, which started out at under 60 tons, now weighs, well, 73.6 tons…

GI-Joe

MTH used a 60 ft Flatcars when they offered the M1 Abrams tanks, two per flatcar PN’s were PN 20-95346 single car 20-92183 for a 4 car set. They probably had other part numbers for different versions of the Abrams tanks (dessert tan, army green etc) The important thing to keep in mind was the tanks MTH used were scale 1/56. Despite the smaller scale for the Abrams tank since the tank is so large they did not look out of place with other military offerings which were 1/48 and 1/50. If you think about it 1/56 is as small to 1/48 as 1/43 is large.

If you are going to use scale 1/48 Abrams tanks you may want to do a search on Atlas offerings for modern flatcars and if I remember correctly they are 80 Ft flatcars which would be too large for the curves you have on your layout (pictured on your previous post). I don’t recall the minimum curves for the 60 ft MTH flatcar but I sure it needs larger curves too.

JohnB