Do you have any loads on your flatcars and in your Gondolas?
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Do you have any loads on your flatcars and in your Gondolas?
Yes.
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Very nice! Is that James Dean's Silver Porsche Spyder I see?
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I have a few Weaver gondolas with homemade loads.
This is a steel rod load from St. Charles Modelworks.
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Yes I do, lots of them but unfortunately no pictures.
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Dennis
Cool pictures. I know that Gellers sells wooden planks for flatcar decking but who else sells chains and parts to detail flatcars? Parts that can hold down loads (cars and vehicles etc).
Cool pictures. I know that Gellers sells wooden planks for flatcar decking but who else sells chains and parts to detail flatcars? Parts that can hold do load (cars and vehicles etc).
A cheaper solution for planks might be in my how to... I used edge banding and an iron.
For chain, I found chain comparable to the Menards chain on their cars at chinamart in the craft section.
Ted
@Dave C Nice loads and very nice layout! Thank you for sharing.
MTH Railking flatcar with 57 vette's
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Do you have any loads on your flatcar.......
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@ mwb Interesting load. Very nice!
Do you have any loads on your flatcar.......
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Very nice.
Don
At seconds 40 & 45 there are Weaver Army flatcars with "home-made" loads.
Peter
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Here's a shaft out of an old printer that I cribbed up in a gondola:
The heft of it makes it track VERY well!
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Here's a few gondolas running at our club's February show:
Altoids Smalls tins fit nicely on a Marx flatcar:
If you do this, place a small magnet in each tin to hold them in place better. Boy did I make a mess on the club layout finding this out!
J White
This MTH PC gondola came with a simulated load of broken up steam engine parts in grey plastic that is just screaming to be repainted. Here, on the Tomlinson Run Railroad, we recycle. Below is the repurposed gondola on a metals recycling run. Much more colorful than the original load.
I sometimes pick up coal and slag from various trips to tracks. My father would point them out when I was a kid and we were walking down an old railroad line and it's still fun to find. Here is some coal I found on Boston and Maine (and Penn Central) track in West Concord, MA that is slated for a rail trail. I figure years from now when I'm done playing with it, I'll donate it to a local museum so future generations will have a better idea of what that boring strip of black top was really all about.
Yeah, the coal is all out of proportion but this RR runs on a carpet for heaven's sake! Engineering standards are shall we say ... rather "low"?
Tomlinson Run Railroad
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This MTH PC gondola came with a simulated load of broken up steam engine parts in grey plastic that is just screaming to be repainted. Here, on the Tomlinson Run Railroad, we recycle. Below is the repurposed gondola on a metals recycling run. Much more colorful than the original load.
I sometimes pick up coal and slag from various trips to tracks. My father would point them out when I was a kid and we were walking down an old railroad line and it's still fun to find. Here is some coal I found on Boston and Maine (and Penn Central) track in West Concord, MA that is slated for a rail trail. I figure years from now when I'm done playing with it, I'll donate it to a local museum so future generations will have a better idea of what that boring strip of black top was really all about.
Yeah, the coal is all out of proportion but this RR runs on a carpet for heaven's sake! Engineering standards are shall we say ... rather "low"?
Tomlinson Run Railroad
Tomlinson Run? As in northern West Virginia?
George
Here is a video of my Lionel Gantry Crane unloading custom flatcar and gondola loads.
Here is a video of my Marx 6" tinplate loads and my custom Marx Gantry Crane with electromagnet, custom Marx/American Flyer Auto Unloader and Marx Dump Station.
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Yeah, the coal is all out of proportion but this RR runs on a carpet for heaven's sake! Engineering standards are shall we say ... rather "low"?
Tomlinson Run Railroad
Tomlinson Run? As in northern West Virginia?
George
Well, yes and no. I'm from western PA not too far from Tomlinson Run, WVA but no relation. So I use it as a pun for my model RR.
Great Thread: NS1719, can you explain how you did your tie downs?
Thank you.
Paul
Great Thread: NS1719, can you explain how you did your tie downs?
Thank you.
Paul
Hi Paul,
The process I used was pretty easy. Now just as a note my chains are a little bigger than probably scale but in any sense I think it works out in the end with the load. I got my chains at Walmart in the craft section, ya get 90 inches of chain for $3.22, the chain came in black although there was other colors available.
The weaver cars I used have the stake side pockets which accept the chain almost perfectly some I had to use a screw driver to open the pocket up to pass the chain all the way through.
I put one end in the pocket and put a small dab of in my case Gorilla Glue "clear" into the pocket. After a minute I routed the chain and passed it through the next pocket and held pressure on the chain so it was tight and added another drop of glue to the pocket, after about a minute it the glue was set up and I took my small diagonal cutters and cut the chain on the bottom side of the pocket.
I was going to do it like alot of others here with the springs but I was impatient lol but I really like how they turned out.
I hope that helps! I could do a video if needed.
Thanks,
Jarrod
Here's an Atlas Trainman gondola that I weathered and added a "muck load" made by Forum member "Rail" (Don)...
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The metal came from a steel downspout on a commercial building. It was all rusted, so I cut the bad part off, and cut it into sections to replicate rusted metal panels. I just put them in the car loose. I made a similar load using rusted metal from a steel cabinet.
Don
Some samples from my layout.....
• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway, “ A Toy Train Layout”
Click photos to enlarge.
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ONce again great thread. NS -thank you for the reply on the tie downs, much appreciated.
Paul
Two flatcar loads for Santa Fe mechanical.
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I lie the military units. I have a few Weaver flat cars that I plan to add loads on them. Thinking of farm equipment or CAT or John Deere items.
RRDOC,
Really like the white metal Naval guns on the flat load. Please tell me where you acquired them, I have been looking for some, myself. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jesse
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?
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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
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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
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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!
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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.
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Mark's rendition (above) got me off and running. Completed Saturday afternoon. K-Line die cast 13" Santa Fe flat car with the weight removed. Four wood rails and a load of 2 rail wheel sets. The wheels nearest the centerline of the flat car have a dollop of rubber cement to reduce vibration. What does the average prototype wheel set weigh?
Building is an Ameri-Towne kit with stairway added. Second car in our work train is K-Line's Foreman Car with lighted interior and smoke unit. Building next to the box car is a Walthers kit.
John in Lansing, ILL
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John posted...
Mark's rendition (above) got me off and running. Completed Saturday afternoon. K-Line die cast 13" Santa Fe flat car with the weight removed. Four wood rails and a load of 2 rail wheel sets. The wheels nearest the centerline of the flat car have a dollop of rubber cement to reduce vibration. What does the average prototype wheel set weigh?"
When you consider each wheel is anywhere from 33 to 36 inches in diameter of solid steel, then each wheel set would easily be several hundred pounds.