Loads for MTH European Gondolas

I use six gray LGB pipe loads per car (I have five) - they are shorter than the interior length of the car but still look good.

The LGB pipes come ten to a package.

I made my own load of coal with aquarium gravel. The load looks good but the car is a little on the heavy side so I may change it. Not exactly sure what a correct load would be but at least it looks better than an empty Gondola.

I'm in the process of making some Hornby cable drum loads for Hornby cars. 

There are quite a few photos of the 'Eaos' type wagons on the internet, but very few showiing what they generally carry.

 

A brief summary is here;

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_wagon

 

but you will have to scroll down to see it.

 

Ed

Now, if these "gondolas" ("open goods wagons", to un-Deutsch the thing) were to 

be used to haul away rubbish and the like, could they be said to be carrying:

Euro-trash? 

 

What would a load of Euro-trash look like? Maybe Weaver will make them.

I had formerly used standard gauge wooden barrels and drums as loads for these large gondolas. I like these cars because they are highly detailed and have diecast trucks.

 

Diameter-wise, the LGB pipe loads are correct, but they are two-plus inches short of the length of the car.

Pipe loads are easy enough to make from plastic or aluminum tubing. 

According to the SBB Cargo website:

1.  The Eaos / Eanos cars are suitable for, inter alia: coal, scrap, woodchips, sugar beets, wire rod, bales of paper, and stone;  max load is 65T.

2.  It would appear from photographs -- I don't have any of these MTH cars -- that there are small retaining rings along the bottom outsides of the car.  These are used for the ropes used for  securing a tarpaulin [ or whatever term is used for the plastic equivalent nowdays ] over the top of the car to keep the lading [ hopefully ] dry.  The SBB site shows the standard SBB green tarp and the tiedown arrangement.

 

    Since MTH unfortunately did not include even rudimentary interior detail in the body shell it would seem easier to load the car than provide that, although a sharp pencil and a straight edge could at least indicate the inside of the doors, etc.

 

Best, SZ