Let’s see your Custom or rare flatbed loads!

Transformer loads, on depressed center flat cars, headed for the local power plant. 

Custom made Santa's Sleigh on my flatbed tin plate Christmas Train.

Ertl Case and IH tractors on 50ft flats loaded and chocked for maximum qty.

Bachmann On30 ET&WNC ten wheeler loaded and blocked just like when #12 was shipped to Harrisonburg VA in the mid 1950's.

A little cheat as a gon instead of a flat.  Based on an actual N&W prototype.  Pola gon cut down to 30 inch high sides with Weaver trucks.

Northwest drag line with magnet instead of bucket on a modified Weaver pig flat painted in MoW colors.

Just finished converting another Williams flatcar for military service.  Next comes weathering and mounting of a Korean War tiger faced Sherman. He’ll be joining his brothers very soon!  - 

Heavy boiler on Lionel depressed center 8 axle flat car.  I painted the boiler flat black,  used some chain which I painted olive green, and weathered the flat car.  Here is the delivery of the load spotted on the team track and the subsequent  transfer by crane to a flatbed trailer.   Last photo shows the empty flat with pieces of wood bracing used in transporting the boiler.

My favorite flatcar. I've never seen another one locally.

John

Here is a Super Tiger on a flat car, will have chains on next week.

Here’s some Pig Flats I Custom  Weathered 

Load leaves REMCO Valve Co.

Tis the season!

Great loads, everyone!  Military is well represented, here are some of mine, working to finish several other.  Included is a captured German for Aberdeen for testing and inspection.  As you see, many need completion, and Shermans on flats are not shown, as are other military loads.  Will have consists from WWII era, early 50's, troop transport/medical consist, and an AAF loads consist.  Time, all we need is more time... and less projects in the works at same time!  Also making more turnbuckles as used on the tie down of the captured German.

Jesse   TCA

TheRWBYRailfan posted:

PRRronbh posted:

One of these days will get around to blocking and chaining it down per Mil Specs.  Guess am waiting until get the Paladin (M109) assembled and painted for a related load.

Ron

Im hoping to make a custom flatcar with a custom tank in the future too. I have glimmers of hope now that the 50' Sherman Flatcars have been announced.

...although the Shermans I want to add to the flatcars are a bit different than normal.

Kelly's heroes is a great movie.

The Shadow posted:

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

Tanks for the pictures

M4 Sherman Welded Hull,

M4A1 Sherman  Cast Hull

M3A3 Stewart Light Tank,   M3A1 Stewart Light Tank

I got hungry and ordered another load:

ETS flat with a Marder IIIM:

Custom built truss

TBF Avenger Flown by George H. W. Bush in WWII  

rattler21 posted:

njfist posted:

Custom built truss

How is the truss secured to the deck?  John in Lansing, ILL

Lionel elastic strap

Steve24944 posted:

The Shadow posted:

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

Tanks for the pictures

M4 Sherman Welded Hull,

M4A1 Sherman  Cast Hull

M3A3 Stewart Light Tank,   M3A1 Stewart Light Tank

Steve,

Who made the Stewart tanks, they look great?

JohnB

The Stewarts both came from the Master Fighter line of kits and built-ups.  I don’t know how readily available they are here in the US.  I got these from a French company called Gasoline.  They produce a wonderful collection of resin kits for “obscure” prototypes that aren’t covered by Tamiya, Academy, Bandai, etc.

Aside from military loads which a lot of people do, here are some of my favorites...

1st, some steel slabs:

Then a lumber shipment:

Steel storage tank:

Vermont marble:

Steel girders:

Telephone poles:

And finally, my favorite: a recovered...err.."meteor" from Kecksburg, PA:

Grabbed two quick shots of my main yard.  Lots of flat car load...

Here is Santa's Sleigh waiting in the yard to be hooked up to Santa's Reindeer just in time for Christmas.

Other than any custom loads, here are some of my Lionel PW loads maybe not seen so much, anymore.     

Jesse   TCA

I got bored and turned a battery operated toy tank car and some junk into a research submarine. It actually fits perfectly into a fish belly flat's notches, but theze photo ir mure handy.

Mark Diff posted:

Aside from military loads which a lot of people do, here are some of my favorites...

1st, some steel slabs:

Then a lumber shipment:

Steel storage tank:

Vermont marble:

Steel girders:

Telephone poles:

And finally, my favorite: a recovered...err.."meteor" from Kecksburg, PA:

Mark thanks for showing all these great loads

With the help of a great friend these were put together

These things came around glass sliding doors I ordered. I thought they looked like steel bridge sections, so..

mounted on Penn Central flats!

With the last Star Wars movie out I raided my sons Lego collection and ran all minifigures on my train at the San Diego RR museum today.  I have been doing it for the last 3 movie opening weekends now and will be sad if they don't make some other Star Wars related film.

Star wars cars are a hoot!

My "Best Friend " on a Southern flat.

Need to do this with my John Bull but obviously with Pennsy flats.

Ron

In the 60's softee dealers got this  promotional bank . What ever the season theirs No reason NOT to have Ice CREAM... I put them on a 60's  Lionel flatcar.....

I don’t have a picture but I’ve been known to put shot glasses into a gondola. When the gondola stops in front of you it’s time for a shot! 🤪🥃

Athearn trucks repainted to REA colors atop a Weaver scale flat car.  John in Lansing, ILL

Inspired by this photo by Soph Marty (google it):

Nice thread guys 

 a couple favorite.