Calling all Husky Stack Gurus
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Josh, that can't be right. The PDF on Husky Stack cars at http://www.gbrx.com/page.php?view=STACK_CARS shows the loaded weight of a 53 footer as 169,000 pounds and a gross rail weight of 220,000 pounds. I can believe 137,000 pounds as the loaded weight for a 48 footer but not the light weight.
Josh, the abbreviations are right. LD LMT, to be technical, is the absolute maximum allowable weight of load, including both net weight and dunnage, that a freight car is authorized to carry. Are seeing a light weight of 137,700 stenciled on a model or prototype Husky car? It seems hard to believe that builders of the cars got the light weight wrong on their web site.
On these two units I have, there is only the LD LMT, no LT WT. That is why I asked. IN teh prototype ones I looked at as well, it was all Load Limit.
RexHea, I use a prototype switch list that I got off a shortline in Oregon, the Central Oregon & Pacific (CORP). It lists the total length and weight, loaded or unloaded, at a stop. I'll have to post it up here after I refind it.
RexHea, I use a prototype switch list that I got off a shortline in Oregon, the Central Oregon & Pacific (CORP). It lists the total length and weight, loaded or unloaded, at a stop. I'll have to post it up here after I refind it.
ThoroughBreed
Dcc~detail~diesel freak
Not looking at the Athearn cars, I have a Walthers 3 car set and they list the following:
LD LMT 165100 per unit
LT WT 163000
Now, as they mean 163000 per the set, then a single should weigh out at 54333.33.
LD LMT 165100 per unit
LT WT 163000
Now, as they mean 163000 per the set, then a single should weigh out at 54333.33.
Thoroughbred, now that makes perfect sense. The light weight is for a single unit on the Greenbriar site. The stencils on the models are for the light weight of the three car set. Since the sets are normally never broken up, having the light and loaded weight apply to the set seems to be the correct way to do it.
True, but I think many more of them are run in three car sets. I think the model companies used the weights for the three car sets on the single cars, thereby confusing all of us.
jbaakko
Diesel Detail Freak
Thats what I was thinking.I think the model companies used the weights for the three car sets on the single cars, thereby confusing all of us.
I sometimes think that they stamp weights on model freight cars at random. I was bored one night and grabbed about 10 cars from layout and looked up the weights and dimensions. The majority were Athearn BB cars. All the Athearn cars had some wrong data and a few had data that didn't even match they type of car. The only one that had everything right was an old Roundhouse 50' NKP plug door.
