shortliner Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 One or two of our readers may find this useful http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=6560&p=117834#p117834 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWB Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 There are lots of variations on these loads: Versions of these loads have been available from Walthers, Jaeger, JWD, and Out West Lumber Loads. The Out West are neatest, because they simulate the unwrapped kind. One of the big things most commercial loads omit (as well as the one in the post linked) is the banding and retaining straps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clark33 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Cheers Jack, I'll print some on 70 gm bond white paper (normal around here). I'm inspired by the lumber loads on http://www.jaydeez.com/parts_trailers.html - I did a Google image search on '... lumber loads ...'. But lumber loads and the Thrall, cars are way beyond my 1969 era. I'll wait, (probably, a long time) for a pair of Walthers opera window centrebeam flats, Which I'd cut'n'shut to a pair of 50 foot cars, but articulated. A typical solution to the dodgy track beyond my Key West, Fla staging yard . Phil. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 I can understand the restraint straps being omitted. I have 3 Centerbeam Flats, and like the chap on the OP link, like to depict them in both loaded and unloaded states, depending on which direction along the branch they are going! Super-detailing them with all straps present and correct would make that pretty impossible. I have a couple of sets of plastic 'inserts' (Walthers I think) that can easily be snapped in and out of the cars, but I like the way they're done in the OP. Real wood just seems more 'right' for the loads!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted March 23, 2013 Author Share Posted March 23, 2013 Jordan - may be worth looking at the OP again due to update - suggestions of Ee-z-line or nail-tape ( man, is that fine!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhock Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 You can get the E Z line from model and junction and I picked up some nail tape (the suggestion of the OP on the Gauge) for £2.75 delivered from eBay, 16 meters of the stuff! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clark33 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Home Made Lumber loads is an article I on-line Model Railroad Hobbyist, 2011 July, page 55. Here in the Pacific, I use http://issuu.com/mr-hobbyist/docs/mrh11-07-jul-2011-ol Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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