Any Loads On Flatcars & In Gondolas?

Its 4 am making flatcar loads. Just received 6 Lionel flatcar assortment.

BTW  where do you buy small chain or elastic cord like Lionel uses on their cars?

Flat cars and gondolas on my layout. Some factory loads and some home made.

Paul,

Here ya go, a little Tin on Tin!

PCRR/Dave

Here are some loads .on flat cars.

If you want to see lots of gons and flats with loads, check out Team Track Tuesdays. Here are just a few of mine...

John

NS1719 posted:

Working on a few!

An accident looking for a place to happen.  John

As Mark Dif said ... Check out past posts of TEAM TRACK TUESDAY here on OGR Forum.  Lots of loads there.  Here are a few.

Here's some of my Military Loads, many customized. Like the Menard Fuel Tanker, shortened as was the trailer.

Just to add, during WW2 and Korean War, shortage of Flat cars, many drop end Gondolas were used to move equipment that would fit in.

Some loads I made from some rubber stair treads, and some foam rock panels. The rubber represents slabs of marble, and the foam rock is made to represent flagstone in a wood crate.

Shelbys

I've posted a couple of these photos before,  so sorry for any repeats.   I just finished the large USS 3 pipe load on the Lionel PS-4 flatcar.

Nick

Mark Diff,

I really like what you did with the Plasticville signal bridge.  It is a nice crane!

Perhaps you could start a thread describing what you did.

Jan

Finished and out on the rails

The kit is a Tamiya 1/35 amphibian, figures included.   Flatcar is also a kit w lionel trucks added.

Buck posted:

The kit is a Tamiya 1/35 amphibian, figures included.   Flatcar is also a kit w/Lionel trucks added.

Bob, If a flat car is ten feet wide and the DUKW(Duck) is 96" wide, that's pretty close to scale.  It looks good.  John

John, I think so as well.   Honestly,  I  didn't do any measurements.   After I built the  kit I eyeballed it from there. 

Jan posted:

Mark Diff,

I really like what you did with the Plasticville signal bridge.  It is a nice crane!

Perhaps you could start a thread describing what you did.

Jan

Thanks Jan. I'd be glad to start a thread. Look for it in the Scenery/structures topic in a few days.

Meanwhile, here are a few more gons and flats...

With lots more to come!

I was puzzled when I received a couple of "Likes" on a post I made to what I thought was a long-forgotten thread that's three years old.  But now I see that it's been the subject of some renewed interest.  It's pretty funny to me because coincidentally, I've been revisiting this topic myself since the Spring Thaw Show at Allentown, where I picked up a couple of die-cast vehicles and got the bug again to create my own flats.  Here's a couple of new ones from last month.  I've got about 4 or 5 more in the works.

And here are some more...

Here are some photos of a platoon of Sherman’s that I mounted on flat cars.

                    Two Weaver 50' flatcars w/ pivoting pipe load for .054 curves. 

a few

K-line missile launcher on Menards flat, the removed ISO tank added to another Menards flat.

All loads added to Menards Alaska RR flat cars.  I copied Menards with the helicopter but came up with the rest myself.  I even cobbled together the Jordan spreader from extra parts, a wood frame and K-line trucks.

Here are five more photos. Two already had loads on them when I bought them. The other three I added loads to the cars. Looks like I need to chain down those Mack trucks.