Let's see your FLAT CAR LOADS - Photos

I almost forgot my wife's neat Traveling Nativity

C. Sam now thats very nice!!

I went with an Air Hogs remote controlled helicopter, It goes well with the Plasticville Tanker....



Paul

Paul, is that an operating helicopter?
It would be neat to shoot a video of it performing a slow lift-off from the car on the layout!
Years ago when we flew RC there was a fella who flew real helicopters too. He purchased an old Bell like the one on my car and when he brought it home on a trailer he declined the assistance of a crane to lift it to the ground. He was a wise a** type and decided to fly it off of the trailer.
Situation started fine and all of a sudden something went amiss - he tipped it over and it literally flopped around for what seemed like a minute or so. Fortunately, he was only banged up but he totaled his new toy..

Here are a few I put together, and a couple of flat cars with loads I purchased, but they were home made.











I found these two at South Bound Trains in Franklin, TN.





This is a work in progress - I still need to block and chain the loads. I am not sure a prototype flat car car could be loaded like this, a heavy dozer on one end and a lighter grader on the other end. Opinions?



You purchase a scale flat car and you put a load consisting of one of the new diecast construction equipment items, you end up with one expensive piece of rolling stock. No wonder the manufacturers don't make these kinds of loads!
Thanks,

Richard

I put this one together over a year ago... have some other flat car loads in the works, but haven't had time to finish them yet.





-Dustin

Dustin,

Very nice load. I really like the blocking and the way the componant part are loaded.

Nice job

Richard

Dustin, yours is one of my favorites. I used to know the different Mustang variants - is that a P-51C?

The "best friend" readied for transport.


And one of these days I will load the "John Bull" on a Pennsy flat car.

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Originally posted by c.sam:
Paul, is that an operating helicopter?
It would be neat to shoot a video of it performing a slow lift-off from the car on the layout!

Yes it is Sam, I haven't "played" with it for a while because I am currently building a new layout, the old one was disassembled already. I'll have to brush up on the flying skills and shoot a video.

Paul

I have a lot more vehicles than I know what to do with so I use them alot as loads.



These Ferrari Racing Team transporters from the 1950s just barely clear a tunnel. Fortunately racing cars are low.

I like military loads a lot and have no idea why I only have these two.

Pete

Thank you for sharing! Great ideas! As usual lots of imagination and talent!!!



Groundhogslayer

Nice Mark IV on the MTH flat car with the short 75 mm barrel. Where did you get that?

Rick

I have not done it yet, but I want to put my HO Walt Disney World set on flatcars.

Richard & Sam-

Thanks for the compliments! Sam, I'm pretty sure it's a P-51C... I think that's what the box said, but I can't be positive. I don't have the Mustang skills required to know by looking at it which model it is.

-Dustin

My US Army custom flat loads:









TEX
Steve

I love flat cars, they can be so much fun!

Here are a few of mine:











Jim

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Originally posted by zwbob:

Is the red car delivering a replacement rotisserie motor to the world's biggest BBQ?

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Originally posted by Mark Diff:

Don't take this the wrong way, but when those pipe get to their final destination they're going to refuse shipment because of damage!

Stratocaster, believe it or not, Walmart. Its. Highly detaild 1:48 model made by milenium toys. They are sadly out of busniss. I got the panzer 4 in that pic and also the wirlbly wind antiaircraft version. They were a steal at 10 bucks a pop. I wish I bought all of the variants..... hind sight.....

One of my more recent ones.

980G on a PS-4 Flat Car


Removed the Bucket and placed it on separately.


The Crate i put on there I made from scratch. The lid opens. I took the pins that held the bucket on and put them in there. Broke a shipping peanut up into a million little pieces to stuff the crate. Loader is not glued to the flat car. It is held on with the chains only.

Flat cars were meant for Military loads:

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Originally posted by DM:

Harley oil pump gears?

Dave

Dave

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Originally posted by King Mouse:

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Originally posted by DM:

Harley oil pump gears?

Dave

Yes from my '92 flhtc. Also the flat car is scratch built.

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Originally posted by Strap Hanger:
Flat cars were meant for Military loads:

Strap.....where did you get your Army figures at? They look great. Nothing like a military load on flat cars......tribute to our veterans and troops.

TEX
Steve

On a serious note, the stock MTH load:

Here's my latest flat car load, inspired by the classic movie "Them!" I also did some light doctoring to an AEC tank car to accompany it.

It took a little coaxing (via glue) to get the passengers to keep all their arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times, but I'm pleased with the results:





-Dustin

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Originally posted by c.sam:
I almost forgot my wife's neat Traveling Nativity

You should find a "Bethleham Steel" lettered flat car to carry this load.

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You should find a "Bethleham Steel" lettered flat car to carry this load.

That's a great idea, thanks. Something else for my list...
Should be able t get CFO approval on that one too.

Forum member Rattler21 asked me to help with posting some nice photos he sent for this thread:

The REA trailer is sitting atop an MTH flatcar shell with K-Line trucks.
Last photo shows how we brought in the outdoor storage tanks when the dairy had to expand and needed the tank room for production machinery.
John













Great stuff guys!

Here's a few....