I once saw a train on the SP Houston-Dallas line that had 6 heavy duty flat cars at the head of the train. They were separated from each other by boxcars, and each had a large electrical transformer.

Dan, Precisely! While large loads could be moved in regular freights, "high and wide" loads often required special handling and therefore were often accumulated and moved in a single train. On the

Hello Dan and to others in the group, This is a link to a load offered by MultiScale

Bruce: That’s the first photo of the D&H 12-axle car I’ve seen, Thanks! I did miss the start of this thread, so was not aware of the previous discussion on the 8-axle D&H car. When I “arrived”

Not now. I have a strange appreciation of heavy duty flat cars and their often interesting loads. I just haven’t gotten around to this one yet, perhaps because I’ve not seen a photo of the

Hello, and thanks for all your help on this car. I think I'll message Steve at F&C maybe it's in the works ? Dave

Dan (other Dan), Thanks. Interesting. Definitely NOT the D&H flat car that started this discussion though 😉 Obviously, I was unaware that ECW did this and frankly the kit was so problematic that I

All, An ECW 4700 sold on ebay a while ago, here is the link to that sold listing. Take a look and it shows the instructions well. You can see the 2 build versions that can be

What, you think the Olds grill is a bit out ofcomparison? The algorithms for determining "similarity"have always needed tweaking. OTOH, the Gon is in the same basiccategory....

Dan, You may have missed it, but this entire thread was started with respect to D&H 16153. Dave Boss asked "Does anyone know if there was ever a D&H #16153 250 ton four truck flat car model

Would you want to sell it? Francis A. Pehowic, Jr.

Bob Kelly states : "The Eastern Car Works #4700 is labeled as a PRR F38 but will build either car. The kit is an F38 but the instructions and marks on the deck parts show how to shorten the deck for

I particularly like the list of "Similar Items" at the bottom of the page..... Tom Madden

Hmmm... https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/prr-f38-flat-car-kit-eastern-car-110650255 Bob Webber

 The Eastern Car Works #4700 is labeled as a PRR F38 but will build either car. The kit is an F38 but the instructions and marks on the deck parts show how to shorten the deck for the D&H version.

It appears to me that the D&H car is just a car with a shorter deck. If you had the F38, just modify deck by shortening it. Francis A. Pehowic, Jr.

Nope! I’m no D&H expert. I was referring to the ECW HO plastic KIT (what was being discussed), not any prototype. We are NOT discussing the D&H #16153, a more conventional 4-truck 8-axle car. The

I’m not sure what happened to the link in my original email but here it is https://www.nkphts.org/archivesblog Brian J. Carlson

Um Dan, Nope. D&H #16153 bears almost no resemblance to the PRR F38. The D&H car has 4 trucks, true, but they are 2-axle and not 3-axle. The body is welded, true, but the D&H body is full-length, with

The two cars are very similar, but not identical. Both have four 3-axle Buckeye trucks mounted on span bolsters. The PRR F38 has a main deck that extends almost the full-length of the car, with