I have found pictures of FD-2 with loads but none of FW-1.
I am assuming FW-1 is the well thru flat car and the FD-2 is the depressed center. Please correct me if this is wrong.
Any help on pics or loads would be appreciated. (no porn sites please)
She now is sitting (throned?) at Strausburg PA.
I meant Altoona, PA
1/7/05 I went to Altoona over Holidays and saw her from outside the fence. Museum was closed for season. Never new there was a railroad museum season!
Charles,
I did a quick Google search using “FW-1 through well flat car” as the search term and found one site that has a model of a “Queen Elizabeth” FW-1:
http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/rrschnb2.html
The same search also turned up a Web site that gives the AAR car classification descriptions. Maybe a field trip to Strausburg is in order?
Bob
NMRA Life 0543
I’m pretty sure that the same car used either deck dependent on the load. There was an article in The Keystone (PRRT&HS publication) a couple of years ago. Two other things. The trucks were from T-1 steam engine tenders that were being phased out and it resides at Altoona not Strasburg.
Charles:
The well body for the Queen Mary flat car was built for United Engineering in 1960, for a for one of their large shippment. From what I have been able to gather, it was not used much and spent most of its life stored in Altona.
I have not seen any photos of it loaded, and just a couple of it empty. One of those is a partial view in the PRR Color Guide Vol. 2 on page 95 The photo was taken on 2/26/62.
I have lots of photos (76 to be exact), including some builders photo of the Queen Mary on my web site at http://southern.railfan.net/flat/cars/prr/245/prr470245.html. I have not seen too many photos of it with a load.
If you find more, I am always looking for photos of this car.
Tom
htttp://www.garlic.com/~tomd
The period was right next to the html on the first address, causing an Error 404.
http://southern.railfan.net/flat/cars/prr/245/prr470245.html
http://www.garlic.com/~tomd