Let's get LOADED!!!.....

[wheeler1963]

That's a heavy string of weights in the bottom of that gon

following the NMRA standards.

 

[DakotaLove39]

following the NMRA standards.

"MEH" I say, sir. "Meh".

Working on my second round of homemade hopper loads. This time I was lucky enough to have scrap pink foam. My last one was styrofoam, which worked, but this works better.


The black stuff is a homemade coal load, made with cinders from Milwaukee Road #261 I collected and screened.

 

[tootnkumin]

That's a heavy string of weights in the bottom of that gon

Replaces the side frames often, wheelsets not quite so.

 

[wheeler1963]

Some new loads I found on ebay. Very creative use of some everyday items to make these.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Derailment load. Got to order chain and turnbuckles.

 

[Alcomotive]

I have a new project coming soon for a load that will used on my layout.....

stay tuned....

 

[CambriaArea51]

The old Tyco pipe load, a little airbrush light gray to the pipe and a modern car and it lives on.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Another Tyco fixer upper, these were crates that were on a flat car. Airbrushed rail tie brown. The mounts for the flatcar are from the Walthers proto 2000 cars, these were on the trucks for as part of the packaging. (I've used these a lot for different things) The Intermountain car is very light so this gave me a place to hide some weight. I trimmed out the center section, glued two together,added weight and painted. The look I was going for was created machinery. As you can see the Walthers truck keeper fit perfectly over the deck of the flatcar and the ends slightly wrap around the edge so it can't slide off.

 

[TLOC]

A nice topic with some very good ideas. James on page 1 asked for Woodchip hopper pictures. Matt Smith is an online buddy who made this car for his Railroad, the Alabama Georgia and Gulf and sent one to me. I still owe him one of mine after a year.

TomO

 

[CambriaArea51]

Corrugated pipe load.

 

[DakotaLove39]

Fantastic guys!!! Keep posting! I am looking for more!

Anyone have wood chip cars???

Yup. I didn't make the loads for them, but they have homemade loads. Made out of a chunk of lumber and cut/sanded to shape, tops dusted with fine sawdust. I really ought to take my drill to them and remove some weight, these cars are quite heavy with the loads in.

I also had these foobie Bowser ones. They came with plastic loads which I spruced up with sawdust. Gave them to club since they suit the track, the route, and the sawmill sidings.

 

[kjd]

Normally I'm a fan of live loads like this coal train loaded with walnut shells I dyed black,

But the gates on this ballast hopper don't work (yet) so it got a carved chunk of blue foam with some Woodland Scenics ballast glued to it. It looks ok, it is the first load I've ever made this way.

It looks the the track it is sitting on could use some ballast.

 

[kjd]

Seasonal loads.

 

[tootnkumin]

Seasonal loads.
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Careful. They look similar to the beans Jack's mother threw out the window.

 

[Alcomotive]

Bump...bump....

 

[CambriaArea51]

A load I've been

worked on. A wrecked hopper load that is waiting chain to tie it down.

 

[beiland]

Magnets & Hopper Loads

Some interesting observations and photos in these discussions,..
https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/20377?page=211#new

 

[CambriaArea51]

Live scrap metal load from my neighbors machine shop.

 

[CHRlSTIAN]

Hope that stuff doesn't rust...

 

[CambriaArea51]

Hope that stuff doesn't rust...

Nope stainless and copper scrap.