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Custom Run Uncataloged RailKing O Gauge British Columbia Depressed Center Flat Car Announced

May 29, 2020 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has announced the production of an exclusive and uncataloged RailKing O Gauge Depressed Center Flat Car with Transformer in British Columbia livery for the Canadian Toy Train Association. Available in limited quantities in two different car numbers, the BC Flat Car is the ninth uncataloged offering by the association.

About the Depressed Center Flat Car

For transporting large or heavy items over land, nothing beats a railroad flatcar. No wonder that manufacturers use flat cars to ship products or sub-assemblies ranging from transformers to airliner fuselages to heavy construction and mining equipment.

But how big is too big? That is determined by a railroad’s loading gauge, which defines the maximum height and width of rolling stock and engines. Great Britain, the birthplace of railroading, has one of the smallest loading gauges because so much of its network has bridges and tunnels built in the mid-1800s when trains were smaller. In the US, older, more urban eastern roads tend to have smaller loading gauges than western roads that traverse wide-open spaces. That’s why, for example, 1950s-era dome cars were common on western railroads but rare in the east.

Today the Association of American Railroads (AAR) defines loading gauges in terms of Plate designations from B to K, with the Plate C height of 15’6" being the most common. The tallest North American loading gauges are the Plate H requirement for double-stack container cars and the Plate K requirement for Autoracks, both 20’2".

Over the years, flatcar designers have devised various means of squeezing the most inside a loading gauge, with one of the most popular being the depressed center flatcar. Dropping the car floor down, until it almost touches the rails between the car’s trucks, allows room for larger loads like the huge power transformer depicted by our model. An even more dramatic solution is the Schnabel car modeled in our Premier line, in which the load becomes part of the structure of the car, and can even be shifted side-to-side to clear lineside signals and structures. But where the Schnabel car requires its own dedicated slow-speed train, depressed center flat cars can travel as part of a normal freight consist.

These flat cars will only be available directly from Canadian Toy Train Association on a first-come, first-served basis. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity! Download their order form today!!

Item No. 30-76841 British Columbia Dep. Center Flat Car w/Transformer Load
Car No. 1757
Order Price: $65.00 ($12.00 Shipping)

Item No. 30-76842 British Columbia Dep. Center Flat Car w/Transformer Load
Car No. 1760
Order Price: $65.00 ($12.00 Shipping)

FEATURES

  • Metal Wheels and Axles
  • Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  • Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
  • Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
  • Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  • Needle-Point Axles
  • Removable Transformer Load
  • Intricately Detailed Durable ABS Body
  • Unit Measures: 12 7/8" x 2 1/4" x 3 1/8"
  • Operates On O-27 Curves

EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE FROM:

Canadian Toy Train Association
604-560-4028
www.canadiantoytrains.org
Email: mlhorne@shaw.ca

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