What do freight trains carry? What would you say?

mirrors! ...

BANDOB posted:

As expected, you guys have come through with flying colors!  Thank you all so much for the great ideas. Many if not most will be incorporated into the event.  I am missing some cars, like the center-spine lumber cars, but I will try to make a substitute. 

For those who may have missed the prior photos, here's the layout at the Capitol campus back in February during set-up. Not complete, but all blank spaces did get filled eventually. You may recognize a fellow OGR member, too!

More after the show.  We set up Wednesday, run Thursday.

And, the thank you from one happy youngster.

 

That's a great thing you did by showing your display to youngsters.  The little ones can make some touching thank you notes, can't they ?

In Lionelville freight cars even carry passengers !

Beer and other stuff.

passengers who like to get tanked? ...

Title of this post sounds like a title to a song !  We need someone to write the lyrics,  the music can be from "I've been Everywhere Man"

Hope I said that right

Clem

Well, we are done!  thank you all again so much for your suggestions. Ralph made this, the best video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...hk&feature=share

It is long, so if you want to just zoom in on the teaching parts, start at about 3 minutes, 50 seconds and go to 6 minutes, 15 seconds.  If you can watch/listen to the whole 9 minutes, we need you to help us next year!

On my railroad we carry a lot of aftermarket replacement radiators for Chevy Corvairs and old VW's. Also move a tank car or two of sailboat fuel or blinker fluid from time to time. Sometimes we have special shipments of Hafner replacement circuit boards and sound chips.

so you're the guy I've been trying to find!! Mt Wife's Karmann  Ghia has been sidelined for months waiting on a new radiator!!

handyandy posted:

Also move a tank car or two of sailboat fuel or blinker fluid from time to time.

On my layout, the Army boxcars move huge shipments of grid squares, artillery blank adapters, reels of flight line and buckets of prop wash.

645 posted:

 

Curious if ET&WNC actually transported a single Jeep link that on a flat in real life? I thought usually the military would load as many as would fit. Know on the Class 1's in WWII they piled 'em on:

You may have even posted this photo in another thread here regarding military loads - know you made some comments like a Jeep would not be transported with "accessories" in place like a shovel, gas can, guns, etc. as that stuff was applied once it went into service after delivery/set up.

So in your layout picture it appears two Jeeps would fit on that flat lengthwise. More if they were loaded crosswise like shown above assuming the flat is still same width as a standard gauge flat.

Know you have a WWII Jeep in real life and know about / research military stuff so I'm sure you have a good reason for loading your flat with a single Jeep the way you did. Just wondering about not making use of every square inch of decking as your layout is set during WWII when the railroads were maximizing what each car could carry when possible. 

Generally, narrow-gauge railroads loaded vehicles parallel to the tracks as flatcars were so less wide than standard-gauge cars. A WW2 Jeep is 11 feet long, and I don't think any narrow-gauge car would fit that.

The ET&WNC, as far as I can tell, never shipped any army vehicles because there was no military presence where they ran during the war (the TN maneuvers in 1943 were very far to the west, the 101st AB did a mass airborne drop and the formations of planes went over the area. My Dad saw that formation when he was a kid. This is as close as the general area ever got to seeing soldiers in mass). If they'd had, though, they could have put two jeep on a flat, but they'd had to face the direction the train was going.

I couldn't find photos of military vehicles on NG flat cars, but I know I have books showing the White Pass & Yukon carrying Jeeps and 3/4 ton trucks, all facing the same direction the train is. Here, we see vehicles shipped the same way in a later era on that RR:

And as for WW2 Jeeps being shipped, they ALL rolled out of the factory. Some (thought hardly any) were disassembled to a degree and then crated. They were shipped to a couple of ports, and one ship of them going to Russian sank, and the Jeeps are still there.

Nobody EVER bought one new in a crate, though people will swear they knew someone who heard of someone, who trusts someone they don't recall today who said they'd heard of someone who had. You'll never, EVER find anyone who bought one new in a crate. It simply never happened, but that urban legend persists to this day...

Taken at the time of this year's Pennsy convention.  Enola Yard, Harrisburg:

Uh, Chinese stuff?

A Chinese company is looking to buy Jeep.  Soon those autos will be Chinese freight as well (even if still made here).

Alan

My road is making an unexpected wind fall transporting unwanted statues.....and monuments...

Mine carries beer and scrapple and scrapple and beer.