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> Posted by: "Roger Nulton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] skywater98339
> Date: Fri Jan 4, 2008 10:16 pm ((PST))
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> <...> I've built and run lots of PRS cars and I install a couple
> fender washers over each truck. The 1 1/2" washers available at
> building stores add about 1 1/2 ozs. for 4. This brings the car
> close to the NMRA spec. of 6 ounces for the 40' car.
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> BTW, the S Helper box cars are right on at 6 ounces; the Des Plaines
> tank, while shorter than a boxcar, weighs in at 7 ounces. <...>
For weight I used one cent coins. (Ten pennies weigh about one ounce.)
For the PRS reefer, which weighs 4.1 ounces after adding couplers, I
add twenty pennies. I put them into penny wrappers, which I get from
the bank, and secure them to the floor of the car with acrylic caulk
from the hardware store.
For the PRS 40-foot boxcar I add 30 pennies, and for the 50-foot
boxcar the number is 26.
The PRS/Des Plaines hopper, which was discussed in recent days, needs
no added weight. This is true also of the SHS 2-bay and 3-bay hoppers
and the SHS stock car. They are all a fraction of an ounce under the
NMRA recommendation.
I should point out that I run short trains over so-so track. For my
layout the NMRA recommendation is helpful.
--
Bill Roberts, Receiver
San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co.
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