Description
Description
This is MTH Electric Trains 20-98987 O Scale 75′ depressed-center flatcar with transformer, 3-rail, ready to run, Premier, Pennsylvania Railroad. Car numbers: 470243, 470238. Over the years, flatcar designers have devised various means of squeezing the most inside a loading gauge, with one of the most popular being the depressed center flat car. Dropping the car floor down, until it almost touches the rails between the car’s trucks, allows room for larger loads like the huge power transformer depicted by our model. Additional trucks are also used to spread out the weight on this four-truck car, to keep the tonnage on each axle within the maximum allowed axle loading on the rails. An even more dramatic solution is the Schnabel car, also modeled in our Premier line, in which the load becomes part of the structure of the car, and can even be shifted side-to-side to clear lineside signals and structures. But where the Schnabel car requires its own dedicated slow-speed train, depressed center flat cars can travel as part of a normal freight consist.
MTH Premier O Scale freight cars are the perfect complement to any manufacturer’s scale proportioned O Gauge locomotives. Whether you prefer to purchase cars separately or assemble a unit train, MTH Premier Rolling Stock has the cars for you in a variety of car types and paint schemes.
Virtually every sturdy car is offered in two car numbers which makes it even easier than ever to combine them into a mult-car consist. Many of MTH’s Premier Rolling Stock offerings can also operate on the tightest O Gauge curves giving them even more added versatitlity to your layout.
Its key features are:
Intricately detailed durable ABS body
Metal wheels and axles
Die-cast 4-wheel trucks
Colorful, attractive paint schemes
Operating die-cast metal couplers
Fast-angle wheel sets
Needle-point axles
Detailed generator load
1:48 scale dimensions
Unit measures: 19 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 4 7/8
Operates on O-54 curves
Condition: Factory New (C-9)
Operational Status: Functional
Original Box: Yes (P-9)
Manufacturer: MTH
Model Number: 20-98987
Scale/Era: O Modern
Model Type: Freight Cars
The Trainz SKU for this item is P11983200.
Trainz Product Id: 11983200
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