Scale test car

Short description: Type of railroad car in service

A scale test car

A British scale test car

A scale test car is a type of railroad car in maintenance of way service. Its purpose is to calibrate the weighing scales used to weigh loaded railroad cars. Scale test cars are of a precisely known weight so that the track scale can be calibrated against them.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Purposes
* 1.1 Axle load limits
* 1.2 Customer billing
* 2 Construction
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 Bibliography
* 6 External links

## Purposes

Cars are weighed for various purposes. These include:

### Axle load limits

Cars are weighed to ensure they are within the axle load limits of the railroad.

### Customer billing

Cars are weighed to determine (by subtracting the car's unloaded, or tare weight from the total weight) the amount of cargo loaded. This is used to bill the railroad's customers for the carriage of bulk commodities, so it is essential that the track scales be accurate.

## Construction

Many scale test cars were small, old railroad cars carrying heavy metal weights as their superstructure. Scale test cars needed special handling so they would not suffer damage, which might alter their weight. They were reweighed periodically on accurate scales at the railroad's shops.[2][3]

## See also

* Rail weighbridge

## References

1. ↑ AAR, Engineering Division, "Scale Handbook", Section 1.4.1
2. ↑ AAR, Engineering Division, "Scale Handbook", Section 4.0
3. ↑ https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/WeighingHB.pdf [bare URL PDF]

## Bibliography

* AAR, Engineering Division, "AAR Scale Handbook (2011)"
* USDA, AMS, Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration(GIPSA), "Weighing Handbook" Chap. 3, Pages 31 thru 34, 27DEC2010 (Overall Document dated: Apr 2014) Retrieved: 08JUN2020

## External links

* NIST circa 1913 scale test car and its transporter rail car. One of its large calibration masses can be seen being hoisted onto the scale test car.

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