What I did this week

[Sumpter250]

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.

All I could find is, the LT WT, is the empty weight of the car. The car is re-weighed after repairs, and the LT WT is re-stenciled. The guesstimate of empty weight I used is based on the LT WT stencil on an HO model PS-1 box car, from Intermountain.
Because trucks, and/or wheel sets are frequently replaced/swapped out, I would logically conclude that truck weight is not part of car weight.
Looks like the same fork lift used to lift the trucks onto the track, was used to lift the car body.