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[StartQuote] Frank, There's a picture of PT-201 on a 52 foot flat car on page 48 of PT Boats In Action (2010) by David Doyle. The picture is shown at this link although it's not as good quality as in the book. http://northbaylines.blogspot.com/2012/09/wartime-flat-car-loads-update_14.html At the link above it states that it's a Southern Pacific F-50-14 class car with 16 stake pockets, straight side sills and Columbia steel trucks built by the SP in 1937. (Those railroad guys get pretty detail oriented - not like anyone we know!) The framework the boat is sitting on looks very similar, if not identical to, the one in the picture Dick posted above. I'd think that any 50 or 52 foot flat car of the period would work, those having sufficient weight capacity for a PT boat. Using idler cars on either end of a load too long for the flat car is common practice. Randy McC Lakewood, Colorado [EndQuote]
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