MTH 30-76508 O CP Dep.Ctr.Flatcar w/Transformer Load LN
This is MTH 30-76508 O CP Dep.Ctr.Flatcar w/Transformer Load. Depressed center flat car with transformer load, Canadian Pacific. Number: 309905. 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.
Its key features are:
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
ABS 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
This item has been graded per TCA standards C-8: Like New based on visual appearance. The wheels show average run-time. The original box is not included. The instruction manual is not included. Please check the photos for a detailed look at this item. Overall condition is Like New.
Condition: Like New (C-8)
Operational Status: Not Applicable
Original Box: No
Manufacturer: MTH
Model Number: 30-76508
Road Name: Canadian Pacific (CP)
Scale/Era: O Modern
Model Type: Freight Cars
The Trainz SKU for this item is 6249473.
Trainz Product Id: 11969997
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.
Its key features are:
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
ABS 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
This item has been graded per TCA standards C-8: Like New based on visual appearance. The wheels show average run-time. The original box is not included. The instruction manual is not included. Please check the photos for a detailed look at this item. Overall condition is Like New.
Condition: Like New (C-8)
Operational Status: Not Applicable
Original Box: No
Manufacturer: MTH
Model Number: 30-76508
Road Name: Canadian Pacific (CP)
Scale/Era: O Modern
Model Type: Freight Cars
The Trainz SKU for this item is 6249473.
Trainz Product Id: 11969997
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This is MTH 30-76508 O CP Dep.Ctr.Flatcar w/Transformer Load. Depressed center flat car with transformer load, Canadian Pacific. Number: 309905. 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.
Its key features are:
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
ABS 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
This item has been graded per TCA standards C-8: Like New based on visual appearance. The wheels show average run-time. The original box is not included. The instruction manual is not included. Please check the photos for a detailed look at this item. Overall condition is Like New.
Condition: Like New (C-8)
Operational Status: Not Applicable
Original Box: No
Manufacturer: MTH
Model Number: 30-76508
Road Name: Canadian Pacific (CP)
Scale/Era: O Modern
Model Type: Freight Cars
The Trainz SKU for this item is 6249473.
Trainz Product Id: 11969997
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.
Its key features are:
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
ABS 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
This item has been graded per TCA standards C-8: Like New based on visual appearance. The wheels show average run-time. The original box is not included. The instruction manual is not included. Please check the photos for a detailed look at this item. Overall condition is Like New.
Condition: Like New (C-8)
Operational Status: Not Applicable
Original Box: No
Manufacturer: MTH
Model Number: 30-76508
Road Name: Canadian Pacific (CP)
Scale/Era: O Modern
Model Type: Freight Cars
The Trainz SKU for this item is 6249473.
Trainz Product Id: 11969997
