Flatcar loads! What have you got?

[Old 97]

Credit to: Capt'n Russ

Who knows when the next wreck will tare up some rail. or a new customer wants his own siding spur?

 

[santafewillie]

All that I have have been posted before, so please excuse any that you might have seen.
Steel I-beams numbered and ready for the job.

Some concrete overpass beams.

A new 567 headed for installation.

Tarped machinery en route.

A load of pipe destined for the oilfield.

 

[TrucTrain55]

From the HO layout

 

[TrucTrain55]

Here’s some from the O Scale layout

 

[cv_acr]

Home made wrapped lumber loads.

 

[RhB Michael]

Logs. Lotsa logs...

 

[Colbert]

It's just a joke...

 

[Mixed Freight]

Here's one of mine..................

And another one.........................

The trucks are blocked and chained down securely to the flat cars for shipment to their final destinations.

Ummm, well, in all reality - it's just an optical delusion. The delivery trucks can easily and quickly be unscrewed and removed from the flatcars, leaving the blocks and chains behind. Actually, I didn't really want to really chain them down to the flatcars, because of more hassle than it's worth to start with, then more messing around if I wanted to get them back off.

 

[Mixed Freight]

Here's one that's not all that creative..............

.............. but for anybody that already has this car, maybe they would find this a WHOLE lot better in the "looks" department. I scratch-built real wooden pallets with real wooden dowel "logs" to replace the gosh awful, icky, shiny, molded plastic ones that come with the car from Lionel. Then put some banding around them to further improve the looks. Also added die-cast metal, sprung trucks if the car didn't already come with them (doubtful if it did, but don't remember at this point).

 

[D&J RailRoad]

 

[CambriaArea51]

I have a few, I'll start with derailment loads. Yes they need to be chained down.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Some plastic pipe loads.

 

[CambriaArea51]

A throwback load, these are Tyco creates that with some paint and dull coat look a little better.

 

[Rico]

Ok obviously not my modelling but super cool pic.
BNSF made history last week by moving the largest wind blade ever transported by rail in North America: A whopping 80.5M long!
This is a dedicated wind blade train, moving Vestas blades from Colorado to Texas.
Photo by BNSF team member Bryan Echols, who helped ensure this dimensional product got to its destination safely.

Notice how close the building is to the track!

 

[bigfoot13]

Custom wrapped lumber load. Creates using my custom wrap logo generator. Just provide the scale dimensions and logo. https://modelrailroad.network/CarLoads/Lumber.html

 

[santafewillie]

OK, here's some similar to Rico's that I took a few years ago. Taken from my car alongside the BNSF main between Sanger TX and the Alliance Yard in Haslet TX. I forgot that I had these.

 

[NWP Dave]

I'll see your Turbine blade and raise you a donkey on a flat car.
Those turbine blades are so big when you're close up. We have seen them on semi's on I-80.
The flat car was my favorite rolling stock build.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Some water turbine loads.

 

[logandsawman]

On my railroad, logs are loaded on flats for hauling to the mill, unloaded by hand with a cant hook

Dave LASM

 

[NVSrr1500]