Interesting discovery...

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[quote source="/post/8193/thread" timestamp="1426855389" author="@charliem"][quote source="/post/8190/thread" timestamp="1426839042" author="@exploringcarolina"]Charlie, I would not consider welding carbon steel to aluminum.

[/quote]Bill,

I was sure you knew that, but I wanted to answer the inevitable question from others: "why not weld it?" More of a general general education thing.
[/quote]Charlie, Always wondered about your avatar. Love flying airplanes & things made out of aluminum, but railroading was my real job.

[pinstriper]

I think there's a [a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I"]simple explanation[/a].

[charliem]

[quote timestamp="1426861133" source="/post/8199/thread" author="@exploringcarolina"]Charlie, Always wondered about your avatar. Love flying airplanes & things made out of aluminum, but railroading was my real job.
[/quote][font size="3"]Bill, not to drag this thread too far off course but one of my hobbies is railroading and model railroads. Although I'm stuck in Florida I call Colorado home so I model the D&RGW in HO. My avatar is Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR #489, a 2-8-2 K36 steamer originally from D&RGW. So when the weight distribution pro/con discussions get hot and heavy I just point to #489 and say "Friends, that's my TV and I don't need no stinkin' WDH"  [/font]

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Charlie,

Once upon a time a historical society wanted to bring their steam engine across the turntable and park the steam engine in our roundhouse. Problem was the Steam Engine weighed 995,000 lbs. I told them if they could find someone on the Railroad to approve that steam engine crossing the turntable, they could bring it in the shop. No one approved it. We would bring the 611 J class in the shop on a regular basis. The 611 only weighed in at 500,000lbs.

Surfsup, Sorry about the thread derailment, let me re-rail  :

The bolt on coupler capacity on my 2010 CampLite 11 is 5,000lbs, but the axle GVWR is 2200lbs. The advertised GVW for my TT is 2200lbs. Looks like LL uses the lowest weight capacity of the coupler or axle/axles capacity.

[charliem]

[font size="3"]I visited the VA Museum of Transportation last year hoping to see 611, but alas, she was off to another shop for some final work. So I bought a video. By now she should be close to steaming up.

On the CL11 GVWR, it just means LL has standardized on the 5000# coupler for all their small trailers, up through the 21s. Good from a manufacturing and inventory standpoint. No problem there. The limit on your GVWR is the axle and tires. You won't have the bent coupler problem on such a light rig.

Send me a PM and tell me what you did for the RRs. Which shop?


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