Scratch built railroad platform scale

Found some photos, but not vintage.  So may not be much help.  Used “railroad track scales photos” as a search term.  After your search, you can click a particular photo for a larger image and website information.

Thanks Ted!  These photos are helpful!  I had pulled a photo of a Mettler platform track scale off their website and had kind of been basing my planning around that but; your photos offer a lot more ideas.

The platform scales in our plants are dual use; i.e. configured so you can weigh either a tank truck or a tank car. On this type, the rails are embedded in the scale platform.  I’ve also seen platform scales where the rails rest on top of the scale platform.  On this latter type, you can only weigh railcars.

For my purposes, I’ll likely go with the railcar only option as that seems more logical for the location I’ve chosen to install it.

Curt