Any Loads On Flatcars & In Gondolas?

Yes.

Do cars count?  Over the years I've bought die-cast cars and made my own flat-cars  with-autos.

Very nice! Is that James Dean's Silver Porsche Spyder I see?

Pipe loads

Sure do...

Could be...looks pretty close.  Just hope mine doesn't end up like his.

I have a few Weaver gondolas with homemade loads.

This is a steel rod load from St. Charles Modelworks.

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).

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

How about a thousand-dollar armature out of our 635csi?  All it needed was a drop of oil on the porous bronze bearings!

Or a functioning steam feedwater pump?  Maybe proving that I was the first to use " Pacific Locomotive Works" as a fanciful title for my endeavors?

Regards,

Jerry

@Dave C  Nice loads and very nice layout! Thank you for sharing.

These are repeats, but here goes:

MTH Railking flatcar with 57 vette's

Crushed metal cubes

Yes........

@ mwb Interesting load. Very nice!

Very nice.

Don

At seconds 40 & 45 there are Weaver Army flatcars with "home-made" loads.

Peter

Forum member Old Goat made this pallet load for my Atlas Bulkhead

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!

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

Naval deck cannons (white metal kits)

Battleship 16" gun barrel (scratch built)

 Lionel shovel

K-line P-40

K-line Corsair

Bob

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.

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

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)...

a few

Lionel 16-wheel depressed flatcar with kitbashed Caterpillar diesel load (kitbashed from a diecast Norscot Cat3516B generator set).