Flatcar loads

[jalsina]

It worked like a charm:

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Thanks again for taking me to the right spot, Chacal.

The car is somewhat long for one vehicle but the load is too heavy (70 mt or 154000 lb) and only an MBT can be carried by a two bogey flatcar (in the real world).

By looking below, the car seems to be built with a couple heavy beams and even classified as a "specialized flatcar" the rail gross weight can´t be higher than 286.000 lbs (UP standards). Can this car carry a load of 140 mt? I don´t think so

The Bradleys depicted in load # 3 weight 28 mt each for a total of 56 mt.

Should this flatcar carry only one M1A2? Any ideas?

EDIT: The picture in my 1st post of this thread seems to have two tanks per flatcar.

[BoostedFridge]

EDIT: The picture in my 1st post of this thread seems to have two tanks per flatcar.

The flatcar in that pic is one of the DOD ones with three axles per bogey.

[jalsina]

The flatcar in that pic is one of the DOD ones with three axles per bogey.

The flatcar looks like the ones in military trains across US (that you make reference to), but was released in the Rewards with two bogeys of two axles each.
Anyway I have decided to place two tanks per car like in this real photo:



I have to find out their weight when traveling empty. Wikipedia mentions 62 mt instead of 70. I may have confused short tons with tonnes and the real weight is 62 mt.

[jalsina]

This is the way it will be released if there are no further comments:

M1A2 Abrams1.jpg

M1A2 Abrams2.jpg

The only missing are the chains bracings.
And hoping there won´t be issues when crossing along narrow tunnels. Some occlusions may have obstructing boundaries?

[TheRailfan98]

Great job! It's a shame we can't rotate the turret 180 degrees like they're loaded in real life, but that's a very minor detail. I'm just glad you managed to find it and got it to work!

[DKSspeed]

I just reaized that I got those cars in the rewards thing. When I get home today, I will be making some of these for you starting tonight.

Thank you Nitsujy12345!!!!

[DKSspeed]

This is the way it will be released if there are no further comments:

M1A2 Abrams1.jpg

M1A2 Abrams2.jpg

The only missing are the chains bracings.
And hoping there won´t be issues when crossing along narrow tunnels. Some occlusions may have obstructing boundaries?

They look great Jalsina! Thank you for making them!

[jalsina]

Great job! It's a shame we can't rotate the turret 180 degrees like they're loaded in real life, but that's a very minor detail. I'm just glad you managed to find it and got it to work!

Wow! I had not realized that!
I will be uploading it soon once I have the weight figured out (nearly 160 metric tons). It is going up with 4 axles only, when should be 6. But I think we can live with them until someone comes and makes a DoD long flatcar with 3 axle bogeys. And I have to test it in small occlusion tunnels like those of Feather RC.
It´s still puzzling why DTG did release that beautiful tank but not loaded in a flatcar.

I will be also uploading the Krellnut sounds for those military cars in a different file.

[buzz456]

If you just alias the sounds to the Kuju 99% of us already have them set for Krellnut sounds.

[jalsina]

If you just alias the sounds to the Kuju 99% of us already have them set for Krellnut sounds.

Or using an spare bin. EDIT One noisy.

[buzz456]

Yeah I forgot that's all you need to do.

[jalsina]

The Abrams loading project for the February TSR is finished and packed. I only have to write a readme and upload it.
The rwp package will have three new flatcars:

4- Two M1A2 tanks per flatcar
5- One M1A2 + 1 M2 Bradley per flatcar
6- A single centered M1A2 per flatcar

Besides that, you are getting 4 new Quick Drive scenarios, for the four engines from Sherman Hill, which include six consist fragments plus the four consists for these leading engines:

UP ES44AC (SH) The longer train has 7 engines (simulating distributed power), pulling 57 flatcars with 7.230 metric tons (engines not in that count).
UP SD70M (SH) Not so long a consist with a SD70M leading and some ES44AC.
UP SD40-2 (SH) A shorter consist with 3 SD40-2 leading and a SD70M helper.
UP SW10 (SH) A yard operations consist

I have renamed the engines as indicated above, due to the wrong renaming of those SH engines with the consist name.

Abrams03-16.jpg

The Krellnut sounds for the TSR flatcar are also ready and will be uploaded in a different pack.

I hope all will enjoy the flatcars.

[DKSspeed]

The Abrams loading project for the February TSR is finished and packed. I only have to write a readme and upload it.
The rwp package will have three new flatcars:

4- Two M1A2 tanks per flatcar
5- One M1A2 + 1 M2 Bradley per flatcar
6- A single centered M1A2 per flatcar

Besides that, you are getting 4 new Quick Drive scenarios, for the four engines from Sherman Hill, which include six consist fragments plus the four consists for these leading engines:

UP ES44AC (SH) The longer train has 7 engines (simulating distributed power), pulling 57 flatcars with 7.230 metric tons (engines not in that count).
UP SD70M (SH) Not so long a consist with a SD70M leading and some ES44AC.
UP SD40-2 (SH) A shorter consist with 3 SD40-2 leading and a SD70M helper.
UP SW10 (SH) A yard operations consist

I have renamed the engines as indicated above, due to the wrong renaming of those SH engines with the consist name.

Abrams03-16.jpg

The Krellnut sounds for the TSR flatcar are also ready and will be uploaded in a different pack.

I hope all will enjoy the flatcars.

Thank you so much for making this for everyone! Glad you not like some of the other people i see that always say "You can teach yourself and do it"

[WCL6655]

Technically for rail transporting, the barrel part of the tank needs to be turned around...As I have loaded many of these on cars back in the day

Tanks_on_railcars_1.jpg

[TheRailfan98]

Technically for rail transporting, the barrel part of the tank needs to be turned around...As I have loaded many of these on cars back in the day

Tanks_on_railcars_1.jpg

I mentioned that in a earlier post. Jalsina did not make the tanks so you can blame DTG for that