HO flat Cars with boat loads

[AuburnCentral]

Hello, I’m retired USCG and an avid antique boat person. I’m always looking for some of the later releases of these. Especially the military ones including the USCG

 

[bcp]

Got one of these yet?

And there was/is an N-scale Coast Guard train set.

Bruce

 

[bcp]

Spooner's boat, gravity and wind power

Bruce

 

[kjd]

I've seen trains with planes, there is a four volume set on the subject called, wait for it, "Shipping Planes on Trains" by Andrew Klamka. Volume 3 is my favorite. That said, I haven't seen boats on trains. I've seen material to make boats but not completed boats. Well, now that I think about it, one of the Canadian roads had a car for carrying canoes. I saw a photo of it recently but don't remember where.

 

[bcp]

Putting a boat on a flatcar in Skagway for shipment to the upper Yukon River.

J. Bernard Moore Family Papers, Album #1;

Title from caption. Photograph of loading a boat onto flatbed railroad cars for transport to Whitehorse. Boat is named Happy Hooligan after the Simons & Blakes vaudeville outfit which arrived in Skagway on May 17, 1905. Caption reads: "Simons & Blake outfit Happy Hooligan"

vilda.alaska.edu

Bruce

 

[Rico]

If you were looking for N or O scale models there’s plenty, I only know of the one model in HO scale tho and it’s a retired Roundhouse model:

 

[AuburnCentral]

That’s the Ho one I’m looking for

 

[NWP Dave]

There quite a few listed on Ebay.

"ho scale flatcar with boat"

 

[AuburnCentral]

About 45 years ago I scratch built this one and then about 30 years ago I did the Hacker Craft one. And here is my Hackercraft that I restored