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Post some of your strange, custom, or rare load pictures here! I want to start off with my not yet completed NS D9-44CW wreck load on a 85’ flat with a custom deck. I will soon add a separate car for the trucks. The loco and car still need some weathering, but I am trying to make a locomotive that appears like it had its trucks sheared off in a wreck. I still need to add tie downs and possibly redecal the flat so it doesn’t say Trailer Train. Loco is an Athearn HO dash 9 and the flat car is a Walthers mainline TTX car.7D541F5C-4A4D-4385-85B6-35473FB8901D

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On the way to O'Hare airport early one morning i saw two stripped EMD Flexicoil trucks sitting on a flat bed truck.  I thought it was cool because the brakes cylinders were still attached and the brake lines "reached to the sky."  It inspired me to do this:

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Those are P&D Trucks, with the journals taken out, and custom built bolster and ends.  That is a Lionel flat car with one of those injection molded plastic tarps as a load.  I tossed the load and rebuilt the deck using board by board construction.  That was quite easy.  I added Kadees and filled in the gaps in the end sills. And obviously I converted it to 2 rail

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Every now and then I take my Smash Bros Amiibo collection off the display shelves and put them on my flatcars. I actually have 26 Amiibo figures (25 Smash Bros, 1 random Princess Daisy) but I've only photographed 5 of them on the flatcars.

I should also note that these are old photos from about two-three years ago. I might re-take some new ones soon.

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Adriatic posted:

Strange, custom, rare eh?  IMG_20190626_022948~5

Folks keep settin' um up for me to knock down all over today 😊 

Run that flat near the iron furnace to sort of brown the outside a little, put it on a bun, and I am good to go!

I went with baked, garlic & sage, then cream and mushroom sauce simmer for about 2 hrs served on noodlles..and then finally slept.

14hrs 😁

   Sooooo many loads look familiar. I LOVE contrasting visual variations of things. (this one needs weight or will bounce off the rails 😁)20190403_213107~2

Tootsie, revived with a modern pinewood derby helmet

IMG_20170409_153027IMG_20190508_101341   It doesn't take much gap to let the sound out. (h2o mini?) IMG_20190508_101414

I still don't use sound but a fun project. I even started a second, but as a an hvac crossflow tower... another day though... some things aren't always loaded.IMG_4653_zps8728c47c

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The Panther I don't know who made it.  The others are by Eagle Moss. I haven't seen them for a couple of years.  The Panzers & Stug are on Lionel and MTH 40 foot scale flat cars.  The flat cars are 10 inches long.  The vehicles are 1/43 scale and the flat cars are 1/48 scale so the vehicles hang over the sides slightly.   I don't know how long / wide a Lionel postwar flat car is.

Had an uncle who was force conscripted into the German Army during the war, and was in a Stug III.  

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