Nice flatcar

I remember seeing that in a Model Railroader way back when as a scratch build article. I even started to build it. Never did finish it and some were in the moves to different living quarters it got lost.

Bernd

Wabash four truck flat car

I scratch built that exact car back in 1968 and it was published in Trackside Photos in MR. I did a double take when I saw the picture above.  Even the load is the same!!!

Flat car

I bought the publication the article came in and built the car also. It was a fun project but could never get the decals together,

I first saw the prototype car in a railroad book. I would post a photo but cannot figure out how to anymore. Copy and paste from Photo Bucket does not work like it use to.

The large crank shaft got me to research industrial steam engines which was quite a project in itself. The engines that used a crank like this where huge and powered different types of systems.A high pressure cylinder was on one side and a low pressure cylinder on the other side. Huge boilers also.

Rich

My Wabash flats

20 years back I built this 4-truck model with the original load.

And because such a machinery part does not exist alone I built two more models - Wabash #20000 and # 20008.

Best of all was to find a realistic background to the load of car #20000. Click my website http://us-modelsof1900.de/?p=168 for more info and pictures.

4 trucks

I'm building a boatyard in the hear future--this looks like a useful car.  What radius does it handle?  Is there some sort of span bolster between the 2 sets of trucks?  VERY nice model

Wabash flats

Minimum radius is 24".

Yes, each two trucks are connected by a span bolster.

My suggestion would be today, the new 5' archbar trucks made by TMW to use, item #8126211 or # 8126111.

Those Wabash cars must travel

with a full time polishing crew :> )  Never seen such a shiny large industrial load..DaveB