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

[tooter]

Came up a twin tank car idea for an easily removeable load...

 

[Larry]

A few more loads completed today.

 

[Larry]

Just a few more. I ran out of cars to use.

 

[ho/ttothemoss]

nice pic's and loads.....

 

[UP2CSX]

Larry, you have a very inventive mind. See if you can get CJ to post a picture of one flatcar load he built and see if anyone can guess where it came from. You'd appreciate it.

 

[Cjcrescent]

Larry, you have a very inventive mind. See if you can get CJ to post a picture of one flatcar load he built and see if anyone can guess where it came from. You'd appreciate it.

OK Jim! Here it is. Who can guess what it really is?????

 

[okiecrip621]

loaded

a door latch

 

[ho/ttothemoss]

yea I am going with door latch too......

 

[V&AL]

Skateboard axle

 

[Littlefoot14]

Skateboard axle

Thats what i was thinking but then i saw the bump on the axle and i dont know if skateboard trucks have those.

When will we find out Rex?

 

[ho/ttothemoss]

nice I like the old rust look too it......

 

[Cjcrescent]

Jim;

How long should we let them keep guessing??

 

[Larry]

It's 1/2 of a swinging door hinge.

 

[Chris Roy]

Here are some proto pics of a cool load I shot yesterday - 3 flat cars with Komatsu heavy equipment. I think these are the powertrain / frame assemblies for large dump trucks. I want to model these, probably starting with the core of a larger scale model.

 

[Cjcrescent]

OK fellas, this is what it is. It's an O2 sensor off of a cardio-pulmonary bypass machine. I spent 5 years as the charge nurse in CVOR, and this was a brand of sensor we no longer used. I asked the chief of the CV-surgery dept if I could have it and he gave it to me. I thought that it would make a good load, and it does!

 

[Larry]

OK fellas, this is what it is. It's an O2 sensor off of a cardio-pulmonary bypass machine. I spent 5 years as the charge nurse in CVOR, and this was a brand of sensor we no longer used. I asked the chief of the CV-surgery dept if I could have it and he gave it to me. I thought that it would make a good load, and it does![/QUOTE]

Never would have guessed that in a million years.

 

[UP2CSX]

LOL, that's why I wanted CJ to post it. I worked with those machines when I was a respiratory therapist, and I never would have guessed what it was either. Just goes to show that almost anything can be made into a convincing flatcar load of something.

Mike, those are some interesting loads. I think your guess is probably right, but I've never seen those big mine trucks broken down like that.

 

[Larry]

Here are some proto pics of a cool load I shot yesterday - 3 flat cars with Komatsu heavy equipment. I think these are the powertrain / frame assemblies for large dump trucks. I want to model these, probably starting with the core of a larger scale model.

I have 2 of those big Mine Trucks. 1 in Plastic & 1 in Metal. I'll have to do a load like that or sell you the ones I have & "you" can do the loads. PM me if interested.

 

[V&AL]

who makes the plastic one?

 

[Larry]

who makes the plastic one?

Have no idea who made either one. I bought them years ago at Big Lots.
If you want I'll post a photo of both of them & give you measurements.