Cargo suggestions

[cjp53]

Just scratch built two cars for my grandson.The flat car will have a load of logs,any suggestions for the short sided gondola?For some reasons I can't post any pictures.

 

[cjp53]

Just scratch built two cars for my grandson.The flat car will have a load of logs,any suggestions for the short sided gondola?For some reason I can't post any pictures.

Let me provide more information on the cars,both are wooden cars made from basswood for the turn of the century period look.

 

[trailrider]

Short pieces of styrene tubing (pipe). Scrap metal. Junk.

 

[cjp53]

Short pieces of styrene tubing (pipe). Scrap metal. Junk.

Thanks that's a great idea.For some unknown reason,I can't post any attachments.

 

[Railrunner130]

What industries do you have/ plan on having on your layout? Or are you looking for something really neat, but almost completely out of place.

 

[Cjcrescent]

cjp53

This is a little off topic, but if you first upload your photos to a free photo hosting service, like Photobucket, Flicker, and others, you can then link to them via that website and you can place the pictures anywhere, not just at the bottom. While you can have them appear on here as full size, it is good to consider the folks on here that don't have a broadband connection, so I would limit the size to around 400kb for our slower connected friends.

Here's how to do it;
1. Upload your photos to the free web hosting site of your choice. (I use Photobucket.)
2. Go to your library, or album where you told PB to place your photo, click on the photo.
3. When it appears on the page, on the Rt. hand side will be 4 boxes. This box will be labeled something like this; "Links to Share This Photo" There will 4 or so boxes below this.
4. The boxes are labled, "E-mail & IM", "Direct", "HTML", and "IMG".
5. IMG is the one to lt. click on, and when you do, you'll see a message in the box, that says,"Copied". Sometimes that doesn't happen but it should have it done.
6. In the tool bar back here, click on the icon that looks like a globe with a chain link on it. In the protocol box, choose other, then paste the copied url into location for it. Click on OK to post.

7. There's your photo.

 

[cjp53]

cjp53

This is a little off topic, but if you first upload your photos to a free photo hosting service, like Photobucket, Flicker, and others, you can then link to them via that website and you can place the pictures anywhere, not just at the bottom. While you can have them appear on here as full size, it is good to consider the folks on here that don't have a broadband connection, so I would limit the size to around 400kb for our slower connected friends.

Here's how to do it;
1. Upload your photos to the free web hosting site of your choice. (I use Photobucket.)
2. Go to your library, or album where you told PB to place your photo, click on the photo.
3. When it appears on the page, on the Rt. hand side will be 4 boxes. This box will be labeled something like this; "Links to Share This Photo" There will 4 or so boxes below this.
4. The boxes are labled, "E-mail & IM", "Direct", "HTML", and "IMG".
5. IMG is the one to lt. click on, and when you do, you'll see a message in the box, that says,"Copied". Sometimes that doesn't happen but it should have it done.
6. In the tool bar back here, click on the icon that looks like a globe with a chain link on it. In the protocol box, choose other, then paste the copied url into location for it. Click on OK to post.

7. There's your photo.

Thank you very much for that information.As far any industries I have none.It's for a future layout for my grandson.It will be a logging layout with mountains and trees.

 

[NH Mike]

Thank you very much for that information.As far any industries I have none.It's for a future layout for my grandson.It will be a logging layout with mountains and trees.

The gon could have a mix of logging supplies. 55 gallon drums, coils of chain & rope, some ties, saws & other typical logging tools, rerail frogs. That's the beauty of a logging camp almost anything and everything was needed to keep it operating.

 

[cjp53]

Thanks,I'll have to find some pictures of logging layouts.

 

[cjp53]

It worked!!! Thank you.

 

[cjp53]

"]Here's the other car I built.

 

[Cjcrescent]

You're welcome.

 

[BobB]

Very nice work on the gon and from what we can see of the flat car looks like a nice job there too. I agree with Mike when it comes to loading the gon and flat car; 55 gal. drums, chains, axes, saws, anything they might need at the logging site.

 

[cjp53]

Thanks,I won a kit on ebay,Forty foot log cars by The Cliff Line Scale Models.Not much to put together , some very small screws.Should add something different to my grandson's growing train set.Looking to scratch build a wooden water tower,need to find some pictures of some turn of the century towers.