Here are some loads I made from stuff I had lying around. A block of wood a strip of steel couple hose plugs wrapped it with a sandwich baggy painted it Silver wrapped some old drafting tape around it for the bands, made 3 of them, glued them to some Boley truck flat beds I had and attached to a 89" flat car I customized. Anyways here is a couple pics. The other boxes are just plaster ones I make from extra plaster poured into molds, dipped in wood stain. Wanted to make them unloadable so no straps. Thanks for looking
And the possibility with different colors expands it more...the joy of wrapped loads, I suppose, is that they end up just being irregular shapes.
BoxcabE50, you are correct. There are a couple of 22 cal shell casing in that load. I also had an old covered hopper body that was pretty much junk so I cut it into pieces and glued them in.
These are nowhere near "Tom Holley" class loads! First- large steel beam load Second- steel channel load Third- steel bridge beam load- fixed to car, circa 1990 Forth - lumber load Thanks for looking!
The car is a Walthers Gold 85' center beam flat. I purchased it a year ago or so. The lumber wraps are printed out from an article that I came across on the Model Railroad Hobbiest online magazine. It was in the July 2011 issue I believe. I can send you the PDFs to print out. You use scrap wood for the inside and cover it thith the paper. Pretty easy. I added round magnets the hold the loads together on the car. The banding Is 1/32" drafting tape.
Those are some nice structural steel loads! Looks like your shop does the big stuff, and mine does the small stuff! JMS
A lot of food for thought in this thread. Loads are something I really must get working on. Thanks for the inspiration fellas.
Blaine Hadfield of ExactRail has created some extremely realistic HO custom loads for his flat cars. Follow this link to see them: http://atlasrescueforum.proboards.com/thread/4042/lumber-load-me-flats?page=1 As for creating loads for my growing fleet of flat cars and bulkhead flat cars, I plan on using plastic I beams painted dark gray as one set of loads.
Over the years I made these molds/jigs for gondola scrap loads, as you can see I just used scrap wood to make the basic frame work for inserts, that will fit into various gondolas. Further I used scrap pieces of 1/8 Masonight cut and painted black, inserted with wax paper strips into the jig, loaded the jig with small steel scraps that I got from a machinist friend, I then ran the stuff thru screen door wire to further filter out the huge chunks. After loading the jigs I just sprayed with a mist to break the surface tension and poured on thickened scenic cement, let dry a couple days and thu the holes on the underside just popped the loads out and they fit into the gondolas. Had a gondola on a train that weighed 130 tons but I could see not the load so I climbs up and takes a look to these these big steel balls. They were for a ball mill in Nevada at a mine. Sure didnt take very many of them to make a load. Used the same jig just used steel shot for the loads. Very simple, easy, and worth the time. Anyway a bit more loads for you.
Hi there, those are a lot of nice loads. Well done. I have to do a lot of loads for my layout, so this is a great inspiration. Thanks for sharing, Regards,Chris
