Lumber loads

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Irongrave

Irongrave

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I've got a few of the new atlas bulk head cars along with some of the walthers cars and looking to do finished lumber loads in a few of them. The others will be steel I beams. Any one know of a company that makes loads to fit those cars or one that I can modify to work.
 
Do a search at Walthers on 'lumber load'. The Jaeger products are a kit. You gat a bunch of little blocks of wood and pieces of paper to wrap them in. They look very nice, but they do take time!

Kerry
 
i got one of those as part of larger purchase. i don't understand it - just take a square dowel and cut to length, make a printout of wrapping material on your inkjet and cut it out, take a black thread, done. is it really something that has to be purchased?
 


You could also do up an open lumber load as well, quite common around here.
This load was built as kind of a test but has lasted over a decade on the layout. :p It was made with scribed sheet wood, balsa I think.
 
Somebody just wrote an article somewhere about lumber loads - he prints the wrappers on his laser printer and wraps them around balsa blocks. Banding can be printed or something that escapes me right now, maybe just thin paper strips.

They looked pretty good and he mass produced them for a large number of cars, centerbeam flats, IIRC. MIght be cheaper and / or faster than buying premade and modifying them...
 
I'm with Anton on this. It's really not hard to do a wrapped plywood load since the printed wrapping is the only detail you need, and that's easily produced by taking company logos and adjusting them to size on your computer. Has to be better than spending $10 on an RTR version.
 
Covered lumber loads are incredibly easy to model, as stated, print off the cover and glue it to some cheap balsa.
 
I built my own open load, a stick at a time. tedious as it was I think the results were worth the effort
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