Flat car length/loads

I like the longer length of the old K-line flats. I think Lionel may still make them. Don't like the old short ones. I do like loads on them. Don

You must have some mighty wide curves to get a 30 ft flat car to pass.-KIDDING...

I love flat cars with loads. My layout is heavy industrial. Large scale equipment is needed to build 

infrastructure. Specialized equipment looks great all chained down on flat cars. Gondolas as well.

It is fun to create custom loads from scratch. You can get chain that matches scale at craft stores.

Nick

Here's what I did with Menards 14 1/2" flats. These are actually HO scale bridges.

I, too, like flat cars.  They are very versatile.  It is easy to switch out loads. I even like to run them empty once in a while.

Here is a Menards flat that I made a pipe load for.

Tom

Here are some flat cars that I have added military vehicles to.

Some flat cars/ loads  on the Free State Junction Railway.

scale rail posted:

I like the longer length of the old K-line flats. I think Lionel may still make them. Don't like the old short ones. 

Lionel has been making excellent long scale flatcars for quite a number of years now, PS-4 cars with real wood decks, 14 3/4 inches long. These are Lionel car designs - not remakes of the old K-Line cars.

Weaver and BV trailers atop scratch built piggyback flatcar.

K-Mart trailers atop K-Line flatcars.

Hulk from a Revell kit on a K-Line flatcar.

John in Lansing, ILL

A 1:48 scale M1A1 on flat.  One of these days will bloke and tie it down according to Mil. specs.

Also have a 1:48 scale M109 Paladin self-propelled  Howitzer kit to build for another military load.

Ron

mikey posted:

Here are some flat cars that I have added military vehicles to.

How did a German Panzer mark VI Tiger get into a US Military train of Shermans?

Ron

I  set up the Tiger to act as a Promotion to Buy savings Bonds during WWII,I pair it up with the new Lionel pullmans promoting join the Army.

Mikey

mikey posted:

I  set up the Tiger to act as a Promotion to Buy savings Bonds during WWII,I pair it up with the new Lionel pullmans promoting join the Army.

Mikey

My brother-in-law was in the Battle of the Bulge.  There was ONLY two things  he ever said/told me about the engagement.  "It was D#%* Cold"!  He received server frostbite of his feet.  Some dead and dying tissue had to be cut away.  Until the day he passed had to have special shoes made from the VA.  The other thing was he would never forget the sound made by the approach of a Tiger tank!

He severed in the 34th Infantry, 87th Infantry Division.  He was awarded a Bronze Star.

Ron

I like to put military loads on flat cars as well.  About half my main yard is flats with either tanks or support vehicles.  I would estimate about thirty cars- and building more every day!  Here are a couple of random shots that I could find easily.  Enjoy!

Panzer III L in Afrika Korps scheme and Panzer II B in German Army gray for 1940 France campaign.  Both Tamiya kits, Weaver 50' flat.

Two German Protze trucks.  Both Tamiya kits, Lionel PS-4 flat.

Russian KV-2 captured and modified by the Germans, winter '41 scheme.  Hobby Boss kit, Weaver 50' flat.

50' Weaver bulkhead flat with a culvert load made by Western Hobbycraft.

I love flat cars. Lot's of variety to place as loads. I made this one from a TOFC when I discovered the trailer was too tall to clear my upper level track. The cables are thin picture hanging wire.

This is an old non-de script Lionel flat with a pipe load. The pipe is steel and is enough weight to make a track cleaner out of the car

The Menards flats with loads are nice too

Here is a video of a BNSF Military train on YouTube. It is taken from a high angle that allows you to see the details on the flatcars:

              https://youtu.be/OLW15rMkyKY

JohnB

One of a kind... REMCO pump and machine parts

                              Weaver 50' flat car w/ Alco truck load. 

Here is a load of Plasticville Cars on Marx 8 1/2" flatcars and some Globe Circus Wagon Kits on Marx 7" flatcars.

This is quite heavy. The cribbing has since been replaced but I still have not covered the commutators.