I got to see them up close Friday night. Very well done. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free
I made this load using Atlas Trainman flat car and 2 IH/Case metal type combines, PDC chains and binders scale 4x4, 8x8 lumber, and some thin drafting tape. According to some photos I have seen, the factory took the headers, front tires, man way ladders as well as some other appliances that made the car loads excess width off the combines, and placed on the car. I used some Boley front tires from other projects and put on the front of the combines. I then cut the 8x8 into wedge shapes and glued to the car in front, behind and beside all the tires. Then the arduous task of putting all those PDC chains and binders on the combines, what a challenge. I then placeded the headers on 4x4's in between the combines, secured with the tape bandings. After all that there was barely enough room to place the tires on there and strap them down. After finding some small plaster boxes and placed them on the last remaining open spaces on the flat car. It is very crowded on that car and it weighs a bunch too. Anyway had a blast doing this car load. Lets have fun out there.
Thought I would bump this thread, its been a while since a new post. I made 10 of these loads, they are brass pipe cut to length in a jig for length accuracy, painted with Graphite type paint. Banded together and sat on bulkhead flats, these are unloadable and quite heavy. Looking back I should have made some decals for each pipe, I think that would have been a better load. Anyway too late for that now. Thanks for checking in,
Ups!!! I made a mistake. I’m in the wrong forum. I modeling N = Normal not Horrible Oversized. I hope you got the Joke!? ;-) I know the chains are missing. That’s the future project.
The N=Normal HO=Horribly Oversized is a worn out and not very funny joke to some HO folk. Just sayin...
MTTX 98235, an MDC 60' flat with Boley delivery trucks is pulled through the warehouse district by D&RGW 148, an SW 1000 that's been on the D&RGW roster since 1968.
I have been adding loads to some of my flats and gons the past few weeks in between building cars and locomotives. Here I added American Model Builders lumber loads to a couple of 40' Red Caboose Flats. This is a US Steel Plate load from DUHA that I added to a Bowser 53' Flat. Another DUHA load of nested black iron pipes added to a Proto 2000 53' Foot Gon. Rusted Pipe load from DUHA that I added to a E&C 53' Foot gon that I painted for the MKT Railroad. Rick Jesionowski
Here are the RS Laserkits lumber stacks I assembled over the weekend - just the loads assembled so far (need to find appropriate cribbing lumber and strapping still) but you get the idea: Each kit comes with what amounts to 6 each of 8', 12' and 16' stacks, although it is labled as having 9 total, so maybe each stack is supposed to be two deep. What you see in the above photo's is two kit's worth. Below are the individual stacks from left to right, 12', 8' and 16' I think they look decent. Each kit was $12.79, so about $25 total for the unfinished load staged on the flat car.
