Here is a full-page advertisement for Timken Tapered Roller Bearings which was published originally in the February 1953 issue of "Trains & Travel" magazine, page 59. Partial Caption: "Load limit, 503,600 pounds! Light weight, 500,400 pounds! It's the new million-pound well car, designed and built by the Pennsylvania Railroad to haul fully assenbled turbo-generator sets, transformers, and other extra-heavy equipment." Shown here is PRR flat car #470245, an FD-2 built in Altoona during April of 1952 and now on display at the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona. |