Great job as always Mike. Thanks I really enjoyed it. I like you just about always leave leftover material on my flats and goes. Thanks for the post. All of yours are very welcome.
Awesome freight cars with realistic loads. I am particularly fond of the rail cars with the rail load, structural steel load, truck load and the automobile rack with the pickup trucks. Fantastic my friend 😀
Mike, nice overview of your gondola and flat car fleet, and the loads that you have for each car. You have a nice variety of gondolas and unique loads which adds interest to your consists.-Tom
Great video. I am not sure how other modelers would do it, but when you drop one of the cars at a customers location do you take and "unload" the car and then pick up an "empty?"
Hi Todd - I do not unload the car to create an empty. I actually secure the loads to the car so that they don't shift and move around while traversing the layout. I know there are a number of modelers that empty loaded cars to create empties, but that's not something I plan to do. Thanks for your comments. Mike
Silly me Watch vid, then ask question. Question might be answered during the vid… Nice job fabricating the saddleback “step” for the first cab over rig
I’m not certain how the loading/unloading was done, but my assumption is that portable ramps may have been used to ease the front of the tractor on to an off of the adjacent tractor ….. either that, or a hoist/crane would have to be used. Thanks for watching the video. Mike
3:15 Rebar is much thicker than wire -- too thick to roll into coils. Wire loads that I've seen tend to be more of a dark grey colour, rather than shiny silver. Painting that one grey would make it look a lot more realistic. Same for the coiled steel on the next gon.
I think it is amazing that people are more worried about the look of their carriages and the weathering than making loads and having them RESTRAINED..... I see NO restraints on any of your wagons that are holding freight... not even on the machinery/vehicles....
