What's amazing to me is most of the dimensions on the Plate H are to the 0.01"! Perhaps the car manufacturers can and need to design and build to tight tolerances such as that, but once the car is a few miles outside of the factory floor it's not happening ...

here is plate H

TKDA out of St. Paul is known to have expertise in railroad structures such as this. ------------------------------ Daniel Rivi Signal Manager - Yard Projects BNSF Railway Kansas City KS ------------------------------

There's no one simple answer to this question for all equipment, all operating conditions, all volumes of traffic, all desired maintenance needs, and all gauges, among other parameters (let alone mixed types of vehicles and speeds). To answer it requires ...

Hi, Ross - I too was looking for the "plate" diagrams a couple months ago to illustrate "loading gauge" for a college engineering class I was presenting to. I did a Google search and found what I was looking for - and also used Plate H (which is ...