Let's get LOADED!!!.....
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I like your pipe loads also. I have a few 89' flat cars I'd like to do your pipe loads on.
Try using aluminum foil wrapped around a threaded bolt to make corrugated pipe. Simply unscrew the finished product off the bolt and paint or spray with Dull Kote or the color of your choice. Easy way to make loads for flat or gons.
Greg
Were the "fingers" custom made for the car or did they come with the car purchased? Curious....
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CambriaArea51
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No bond no spillage.
CambriaArea51
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Thanks Lee.
CambriaArea51
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Lee- Love the piggyback cars. Must have taken a while to load and unload them compared to today where they lift them.
CambriaArea51
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Working on a HDPE corrugated pipe load. Waiting on banding tape (chart tape) from Amazon.
CambriaArea51
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Another HDPE load. I found some different prototype pics when doing research. Here's a pic of the black pipe with the green inside from the previous post.
D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
Gotta tie em down or they will be all over the road bed before ya get outa the loading yard.
CambriaArea51
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Waiting on parts to tie them down. Someday they'll arrive in the mail.
gjslsffan
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I have a bunch of that black chart tape, if you run into a issue, 1/32 and 1/64. let me know if you need a roll, its fresh too. I am sure we can come to terms. BTW can I ask the source of your corrugated pipe? Very nice.
gjslsffan
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Well, here is a project I have been working on and off for almost a year.
First it was the problem of finding enough Evergreen Plastic pipe to make the load, ended up buying from Burbank CA, 10 bags (2 pipes ea) of 1/2" pipe, cut to 12" long. Then I needed a jig to aid the build of these loads, some scale lumber for the wood these loads sit on and separate. The pipe was another thing to paint, first was a coat of white primer, then took a long piece of wood strip glued a small cotton ball to the end, dipped in rust colored paint and painted the insides of the pipes and then painted about 2 scale' of the ends, masked the ends and painted the pipe with Rustoleum safety green that was decanted into a 2oz scalecoat bottle.
The jig has marked lines where to place the strips of lumber, so they line up with the channel plastic installed on the decks of the cars.
below; You can barely see the wood strips under the pipe and the center wood upright pieces are inside the metal nuts used to hold it all together while drying, Used matt gel for glue.
below; I next used 1/64 graphic tape to simulate metal banding around each set of 2 pipes, repeated this process until I had 6 sets of 2 pipes glued and banded. Then I started gluing 3 sets of 2, to make the load, I then used 1/32 tape to wrap the entire load. That was a challenge. I then placed scale 8x8 into the channels and applied glue to the strips under the loads, placed the loads on the car and let them sit over night, resulting in removable pipe loads on these 2 BLMA 89' flats. Kinda looks like this.
Being as these car have shift-able loads, there will be placement restrictions on trains, cant be next to tanks cars or other HAZMAT loads. Need to get some images of the MT cars, and post them too.
Thanks for looking.
First it was the problem of finding enough Evergreen Plastic pipe to make the load, ended up buying from Burbank CA, 10 bags (2 pipes ea) of 1/2" pipe, cut to 12" long. Then I needed a jig to aid the build of these loads, some scale lumber for the wood these loads sit on and separate. The pipe was another thing to paint, first was a coat of white primer, then took a long piece of wood strip glued a small cotton ball to the end, dipped in rust colored paint and painted the insides of the pipes and then painted about 2 scale' of the ends, masked the ends and painted the pipe with Rustoleum safety green that was decanted into a 2oz scalecoat bottle.
The jig has marked lines where to place the strips of lumber, so they line up with the channel plastic installed on the decks of the cars.
below; You can barely see the wood strips under the pipe and the center wood upright pieces are inside the metal nuts used to hold it all together while drying, Used matt gel for glue.
below; I next used 1/64 graphic tape to simulate metal banding around each set of 2 pipes, repeated this process until I had 6 sets of 2 pipes glued and banded. Then I started gluing 3 sets of 2, to make the load, I then used 1/32 tape to wrap the entire load. That was a challenge. I then placed scale 8x8 into the channels and applied glue to the strips under the loads, placed the loads on the car and let them sit over night, resulting in removable pipe loads on these 2 BLMA 89' flats. Kinda looks like this.
Being as these car have shift-able loads, there will be placement restrictions on trains, cant be next to tanks cars or other HAZMAT loads. Need to get some images of the MT cars, and post them too.
Thanks for looking.
CambriaArea51
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Tom-Iowa scaled engineering, Grain belt models pipe. Very nice people to deal with. Answered my email questions right away.
I like your pipe loads also. I have a few 89' flat cars I'd like to do your pipe loads on.
Greg@mnrr
Section Hand
Try using aluminum foil wrapped around a threaded bolt to make corrugated pipe. Simply unscrew the finished product off the bolt and paint or spray with Dull Kote or the color of your choice. Easy way to make loads for flat or gons.
Greg
CambriaArea51
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The next flat car load. Still dealing with the chain issue.
CambriaArea51
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Pipe load 98% done just need to strap it down. Prototype pic included.
CambriaArea51
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Built a re rod load for a finger rack car.
D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
Good looking load Tom.
CambriaArea51
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Thank you.
CambriaArea51
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Thanks Lee.
Alcomotive
Grandson of an ALCO Builder
Were the "fingers" custom made for the car or did they come with the car purchased? Curious....
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