Pennsy's Largest Flatcars: The FD2 and FW1 in N scale

摘要

Pennsylvania Railroad usually held the honors of having "the most," "the heaviest," and the largest," and in this tale of two flatcars, a combination of "heaviest and largest." The FD2 depressed center flatcar (a.k.a. "Queen Mary") was built in April 1952. The car itself weighed in at 500,400 pounds and had a 500,000-pound capacity. Thus, a fully loaded car could weigh more than one million pounds! It was 121-feet, 9-inches long and rode on two sets of PRR Class 4F5-T1 trucks salvaged from fallen Pennsylvania Railroad T1 locomotive tenders. The first load was a Westinghouse turbogenerator that shipped from East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Dawes, Texas.