12-24-2009, 04:57 PM
Sumpter250 Wrote:Unless I am totally confused, the "empty weight" of a 40' PS-1 box car was about 22 tons (43300 lbs)........hefty fork lift!
Did the empty weight include the weight of the trucks? Also he did not give a us a really good pic of the fork lift used to lift the box car onto its trucks. When I worked in the harbor, our top handlers and side handlers were pretty heavy duty. The main difference between them and fork lifts were that they had hardware installed to pick up containers from the pockets in the corner posts rather than using traditional fork lift blades.