Let's see pictures of your favorite open-car loads. One of the things that brings our trains to life is when we can simulate the work they perform hauling stuff...and I've always found loaded open cars a great opportunity to create interest and have fun. To get things started, here are a few of my favorites... How can you talk about loads without starting with coal? This car was weathered with chalk, and has a Hay Bros Garage coal load in it. Here's a car with metallurgical coke load, which is more shiny and coarser than coal. Again the load is Hay Bros., but I admit the car needs weathering! This Intermountain composite gondola with a Hay Bros coal load is one of my favorite cars. You can almost smell the coal dust! MOW cars often have interesting loads, I created this wheel car from a Walthers GSC 53-foot flat. To wrap up this segment, how about an extended-length load of girders from an HO bridge kit. The sides of the gon were distorted by heating them with steam over a kettle, and gently putting bends in the plastic. Idler flats from Red Caboose are required with this car! More to come, let's see some of your favorites!
Verne, Here's my modern version of a wheel load: I especially like Hay bros Garage loads, they are cheap, and look gooood! Here's the Red Caboose Ortner flood coal load: Here's a baled scrap HBG load in a MDC gon: Here's a 50' banded pipe load on a M-T bulkhead flat:
Verrrry nice, Hemi! I like the wheel load, and agree the Hay Bros. loads are exceptional. Of course, the fact you model my second favorite railroad means I always enjoy seeing your work, thanks for posting!
Sorry, no layout yet to display them better but here are mine, D&H as one might think knowing me. D&H Hopper #1199 D&H Hopper #1114 D&H Flat #8006 D&H Flat #8050
Man, I guess I need to take some photos and scan them in. All I can find is part of a load on one of my old Lone Star flat cars. You can see the end of a Land Rover on the left in this shot. I have other flat car loads but no photos.
Verne and Hemi- I can't help but notice that you both used regular wheelsets for your wheel loads... Some Fine N Scale wheel loads would be more appropriate, since they made them with a more scale tread width as well as proper bearings coming out of the wheel face (versus N scale needle points or complete lack of bearing).
Thanks, Verne. A compliment coming from an N scale master modeler (you) is an honor! What RR is that? GN? BN? D&RGW?
Hay Bros Garage makes more loads than you can shake a stick at: LBF 65' mill gon with HBG baled weathered scrap load--stock, straight out of the package! Walther's ballast car with HBG ballast load:
Based on the "Red X's" it looks like the site these are on won't let them be viewed remotely. What is the URL to your site? Might want to try using RailImages as we do let you post images to other sites.
I am trying to make a Rail Images page, but I cannot figure out how to post pictures on it. How do you edit a new album?
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This is a composite pipe load made from a Bomb Pop posicle stick. My boys collect them for me. This is a home made wrapped lumber load from my fictional lumber company. This is a Republic Locomotive Works gunderson composite car. The load is a cast copy of a Delux load made 2 scale feet longer. I then glued fine sawdust to the top of it. [ 03. December 2004, 02:17: Message edited by: TonyHammes ]
