Hot Water posted:jim pastorius posted:The Strasburg RR brings NS freight cars in to their place for customers off the mainline and make $$. Whether the track would support that kind of a load, I don't know. the museum has a lot of heavy equipment so they got it in somehow.
As a direct result of their freight business, and the VERY heavy loaded freight cars, the SRR had a new, heavy duty concrete overpass built, in order to handle such "heavy loads". The empty/drained NKP 2-8-4 would be no problem at all.
Not to mention the fact that a majority of the equipment that came to the RR Museum of PA came via the Strasburg Railroad. 1223 hauled a GG1 back in the 70s to get a bearing fixed in their own shops. It is a very capable small road.
