Make your own loads for flat cars, centerbeam cars, and other cars!
Loading rules
- https://my.aar.org/OTLR – Diagrams showing the proper loading of cars
Pulp wood
Scrap loads
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOO-IoTGSdo – Aluminum scrap blocks, using tiny wooden blocks and pencil shavings painted silver, glued to a small piece of styrene, to drop into a gondola
Flat car loads
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIuvLjKdyBk – Steel plates for a flat car, out of thin styrene
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX-aVYnqQfw – Prototype – Steel plates on a bulkhead flat car
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkCLrzXGaXc – Lumber planks on a flat car, out of super thin balsa
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EahGqfSyZs8 – Packing crates, out of styrene, part 1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVCmBGUC6RM – Packing crates, out of styrene, part 2
Centerbeam loads
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpKNx9Co-U – Centerbeam lumber loads, cut from a single piece of balsa, scored to give the appearance of stacks
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJcI1K6p_pE – Prototype – Load of railroad ties on a centerbeam car
Pipe loads
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtqIqZWQ6dQ – Prototype – Large pipes on a flat car