I notice that there are no gunnels on the runs, which means that you better be awfully careful that you steer the tractor very straight. Another thing is the jacks, they seem to be rather light weight compared to the old time jacks, but with the modern methods of testing amd calculating strength of materials, maybe they are OK. But I suppose that the loads are nowhere near the weight of the former waqons, especially the steel grandstand that RBB&B used after the Hartford fire. Bob Kitto
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I notice that there are no gunnels on the runs, which means that you better be awfully careful that you steer the tractor very straight.
Another thing is the jacks, they seem to be rather light weight compared to the old time jacks, but with the modern methods of testing amd calculating strength of materials, maybe they are OK.
But I suppose that the loads are nowhere near the weight of the former waqons, especially the steel grandstand that RBB&B used after the Hartford fire.
Bob Kitto
There are still gunnels alongside the flat cars.
the rubber wagons are the heaviest at about 40,000 lbs loaded.
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