had the NJ high rollers set up and in the video there was a run of flat cars that had two sherman tanks on each car, heck must have been fifty cars all with two shermans
not sure how accurate this was, the Sherman weighed in at 33 Tons give or take 100 lbs, 66 tons on one flat car, wouldn't that have been tough to do??
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had the NJ high rollers set up and in the video there was a run of flat cars that had two sherman tanks on each car, heck must have been fifty cars all with two shermans
not sure how accurate this was, the Sherman weighed in at 33 Tons give or take 100 lbs, 66 tons on one flat car, wouldn't that have been tough to do??
Depends on the type and capacity of the flat car. I can't quite make out what the capacity reads in your photo above. It looks like it could read 80,000 lbs. (40 tons), so, two tanks would overload the car. A different type of flat could carry more tonnage and two tanks.
Great train club layout. I also DVR it. That and Trains And Locomotives.
looks like 80,000 to me too. In WWll lots of things were pushed to the limit and beyond. Bombers,RR cars were all over loaded.
That train belongs to Ben the President of the NJ HiRailers. I'll mention it to him today at trainstock and maybe he will chime in here
was just curious because i am in fact building the model of the Sherman tank and have already weathered the flat car, got to find chains and tie downs but close to 67 tons just has to be a stretch this is off the cover of the tamiya box
but that is down the road a bit, still building terrain and laying track. that layout sure is impressive heck their straight runs have more footage than my whole layout and i have only five ross switches but one big monster switch cross over
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