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3: This late 1960s-era freight car load, an Overland Models D5
bulldozer, is blocked and banded to a Life-Like 40-foot flat car.
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4: This model, representing a General Electric-style prototype,
sports two Buckeye and two standard AAR 40-ton trucks. The
model shows the flat car after the load has been removed,
with some of the supporting steel brackets still in place.
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6: Dave’s bridge beam load viewed from above. The idler car
detail shows clearly. The load is blocked with wood fastened
with steel, bolts, and nuts.
5: This small refinery fractionating tower is loaded on three
flat cars. The outside flat cars bear the weight while the cen-
ter idler flat keeps everything together during movements.
The video shows the load running through a curve, illustrating
the swing of the load and the cars in action.
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MRH-Jul 2013
