Let’s see your Custom or rare flatbed loads!

John Deere tractor Christmas ornaments from Hobby Lobby on Menards flatcars.  Made up about four or five of these cars. I might add some chain tie-downs whenever I can get a round tuit.

Stationary boiler.

Scale wheel sets on a car in our MOW/Wreck site train.

I have my 1000 Hour patch from Sikorsky Aircraft, time for the hulk to go to the bone yard. 

I need to make room in our piggyback train for this car.  John in Lansing, ILL

Menards  NS flatcar that previously had an undersized Pepsi delivery truck load. Now carries a special order timber load.

Cat on a flat.

Pete

Spent three years in the Army working on Nike Radar so just had to make this load. Don

          https://youtu.be/ZmOL3A2ODS4

This is a pipe load that I made for a Menards flatcar:

Tom

John, 

Great minds think alike. 

On the way to O'Hare airport early one morning i saw two stripped EMD Flexicoil trucks sitting on a flat bed truck.  I thought it was cool because the brakes cylinders were still attached and the brake lines "reached to the sky."  It inspired me to do this:

Those are P&D Trucks, with the journals taken out, and custom built bolster and ends.  That is a Lionel flat car with one of those injection molded plastic tarps as a load.  I tossed the load and rebuilt the deck using board by board construction.  That was quite easy.  I added Kadees and filled in the gaps in the end sills. And obviously I converted it to 2 rail

Here are a couple of random shots of  some of my military transport flatcars:

Well I don’t if this counts but this is a Custom made this AHM flat car converted into a Piggyback car and I Custom made the decals for it.

Pipeload from flat car to flatbed trailer.

A heavy (really) generator armature on its way to the customer. Note that the cribbing has since been replaced and the car spruced up a bit. I still need to cover the commutators at each end with protective wood strips.

Strange, custom, rare eh?  

Folks keep settin' um up for me to knock down all over today 😊 

Here is an homage to D-Day.  Tanks are by Corgi.  The rest is Menards.

Adriatic posted:

Strange, custom, rare eh?  

Folks keep settin' um up for me to knock down all over today 😊 

Run that flat near the iron furnace to sort of brown the outside a little, put it on a bun, and I am good to go!

Every now and then I take my Smash Bros Amiibo collection off the display shelves and put them on my flatcars. I actually have 26 Amiibo figures (25 Smash Bros, 1 random Princess Daisy) but I've only photographed 5 of them on the flatcars.

I should also note that these are old photos from about two-three years ago. I might re-take some new ones soon.

I moved one of the Menards ISO tanks to the other flat car and added a K-line missle launcher.

A couple of homemade flats with loads.

A few more Menard's 14-1/2" flats with custom loads.

A flat car from our "Bungling Brothers Circus" train. There are several more to be added to the train.

A few Weaver cars. The first three are a custom run from another forum. I have some custom made loads for flat cars, but those photos are on the laptop which I haven't pulled out for several months. I'll have to fire it up and upload those pics.

Steel coils on flatbed trailer.

rattler21 posted:

NS6770Fan posted:

 I will soon add a separate car for the trucks. I still need to add tie downs and possibly redecal the flat so it doesn’t say Trailer Train.

K-Line 12 1/2  x 2 1/4.   Listed in the For Sale Forum.  John in Lansing, ILL

That’s a nice car, but my load is in HO scale, not O scale.

Lots of great loads. I can only offer some slabs on a Steel Mill flat not for interchange. Roo.

Here are some military flat cars.

Roo posted:

Lots of great loads. I can only offer some slabs on a Steel Mill flat not for interchange. Roo.

Nice car. I have a similar car in HO that says "PLANT SERVICE ONLY" and has several large steel pieces on it.

Bluetooth speaker on flatbed car.  Non-traditional kludge, but works great.

I am so far out in left field compared to the artists here, but a few loads with Tamiya models in general.  Most of the cars are Menards flat cars.

palallin posted:

Adriatic posted:

Strange, custom, rare eh?  

Folks keep settin' um up for me to knock down all over today 😊 

Run that flat near the iron furnace to sort of brown the outside a little, put it on a bun, and I am good to go!

I went with baked, garlic & sage, then cream and mushroom sauce simmer for about 2 hrs served on noodlles..and then finally slept.

14hrs 😁

   Sooooo many loads look familiar. I LOVE contrasting visual variations of things. (this one needs weight or will bounce off the rails 😁)

Tootsie, revived with a modern pinewood derby helmet

   It doesn't take much gap to let the sound out. (h2o mini?) 

I still don't use sound but a fun project. I even started a second, but as a an hvac crossflow tower... another day though... some things aren't always loaded.

I removed the undersized REA panel truck from the Menards REA flatcar and added a load of heavy timbers for the RJ Corman Company.

Some flatcar loads - Enjoy

A couple for the group. 

rrgeorge posted:

Some flatcar loads - Enjoy

Two Questions.

1) Who made those Panther, Panzer III, Panzer IV, StuG III, and Sd.Kfz. 234 models and where can I find them?

2) Do those particular models I mentioned above fit on a Lionel Postwar-Sized Flatcar?

The Panther I don't know who made it.  The others are by Eagle Moss. I haven't seen them for a couple of years.  The Panzers & Stug are on Lionel and MTH 40 foot scale flat cars.  The flat cars are 10 inches long.  The vehicles are 1/43 scale and the flat cars are 1/48 scale so the vehicles hang over the sides slightly.   I don't know how long / wide a Lionel postwar flat car is.

Had an uncle who was force conscripted into the German Army during the war, and was in a Stug III.