Kraków's Magic Carpet Ride on the Last Train to Clarksville

[Adm.Lee]

Originally Posted by recon35

Put the flat car at the back of the train and let the tail hang out over the tracks...

Put the chopper on a flat car, and have another flat car (an "idler") under the tail, but don't tie it down. The tail can swing loose over the flat car.

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

Put the chopper on a flat car, and have another flat car (an "idler") under the tail, but don't tie it down. The tail can swing loose over the flat car.

Again, there are only three flat cars available, two of which are loaded with rails and sleepers.

[Adm.Lee]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Again, there are only three flat cars available, two of which are loaded with rails and sleepers.

Surely, one of these won't be stacked so high that the tail boom cannot swing freely above it?

[Legbreaker]

I don't see how.

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[StainlessSteelCynic]

Even if you can get the helo with tailboom intact onto any of the flatcars, there's still going to be the problem of some railway bends in Poland are quite closed in. Either because they have trees growing within a metre or two of the tracks or because they have fences/walls in some areas or they pass under bridges with support pillars within a two metres of the track.
Obviously on the straight there's no problem but the Mi-8 family is about 18 metres long from nose to tail with seven or so of that being the tailboom so corners are something to be concerned with.

[Legbreaker]

Urk!
Trying to find dimensions of Polish rolling stock is soooooo much fun!
Don't suppose we could have one of our Polish members contact the PKP and get a list direct from the source of what they have, what would have been available in the 1995-1997 period, and their sizes?
That would be a LOT easier than trying to get the info online...

[.45cultist]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Urk!
Trying to find dimensions of Polish rolling stock is soooooo much fun!
Don't suppose we could have one of our Polish members contact the PKP and get a list direct from the source of what they have, what would have been available in the 1995-1997 period, and their sizes?
That would be a LOT easier than trying to get the info online...

Didn't "Going Home" say they were close or the same as German rail stock?