Re: Photo: SP Flat Car 43595 With Transformer Load
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At 01:00 PM 1/15/2021, brianleppert@att.net wrote:
The flat car is clearly stenciled above the left hand truck "CAPY 140000", making it a 70 ton capacity car.. So it can't be a F-50-12 class flat car, can it?Sure it can... A quick shop change to 70-ton trucks...because an important shipper has a LARGE load: Voila! SP Freight Cars Vol 3, p 220 lists F-70-1 as a single car: SP 49679... p221 'The "missing' 400th car was the experimental F-70-1, car no 49679.' Photo on 4-8-1937 as SP 43595 https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/30745/rec/693 Two days later, 4-10-1937, with SAME load... as SP 49679 https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/30879 -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA --------------------
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