transporting horse-drawn vehicles by truck

One of these puppies could do it but they seem rather expensive and overkill for two measly horse carriages weighing up to 2,500 pounds each. Traveling axles instead of deck that tilt independently of trailer chassis. Yes, the horse carriage is a non-powered piece of rolling stock when animal is not hitched to it. I don't know if hitched horses could ever move a carriage on and off a trailer.

 

It's not something I'm planning on doing myself. I don't own horse carriages, nor do I ever have any personal need to transport them. I am into model railroading and model vehicles. I have scenery on my train layout where a man named Mr. Groves operates a stagecoach and a 2-horse platform wagon at a fictious lake called Lake Drummond for excursion ride service. He transports his horses using two two-horse trailers and two pickup trucks to his homestead ten miles away with pasture and stable. He has a Kenworth tractor on his spread as well as a 45-foot flatbed Great Dane trailer with no bulkhead. I can add a bulkhead as an option. It leads me to ask myself curious questions. How the devil does he manage load his two carriages on and off the trailer? His O'Connor marked stagecoach is about 2,500 pounds. His platform wagon (the kind that was formerly used to take people to and from the train station to downtown) probably weighs no more than 1,500 pounds. Both carriages have hand brakes operated by the drivers. A winch might be able to pull each carriage up onto a low deck trailer using ramps. How does the carriage get off the truck? Pushed off maybe? Mr. Groves could also own one of those trucks that towing companies use. Tilt bed with winch. Automobile transporter. Only one carriage can be hauled at a time with one of these so he would have to make two trips. I think I will have to call up the outfit that still runs those Wells Fargo stages and ask them what they use as a coach transportation solution?

 

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Here is a picture, now how the devil did Mr. Groves manage to get those carriages on top of that flatbed! Mr. Groves does not own these for museum exhibit. He operates excursion rides and collects fare money.

 

Stopover in a Quiet Town - Wikipedia

I was born April 19, 1964. This television program first aired 5 days after the doctor spanked my bottom.

It begs us humans to ask ourselves "how REAL" can we make our model train world really?