Plasterboard (Drywall) loads - anybody make 'em yet?

[Mark5]

I've some N&W plasterboard flat car projects lined up, and I'm gonna need some appropriate loads.

It seems Jaeger used to make some in N scale, but they also seem to have ditched N scale. Here's the Jaeger (Mick?) HO load:



Here's a similar thread on the A-forum from 5 years ago:

http://forum.atlasrr.com/FORUM/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=21742

Mark ???

[wm3798]

I used some basswood, painted, stacked with dryers between the layers, then tarped with some masking tape.  

Some white chalk could be spattered around to complete the effect.  I want to build some WM drywall cars.  Similar to the Walthers bulkhead flat, but with an enclosed cabinet at one end to ship packaged joint compound out of the weather.

And don't forget, 8' and 12' lengths...  Hacks of 8' can be 3 or 4' tall, 12' is usually 2' tall.

Lee

[Mark5]

Why'd ya put it on a pulpwood car? Now all the plasterboard will cave toward the center! (plasterboard cars are flat).

(of course, now I'll have to check to see if Atlas made this car flat or not )

All kidding aside, thanks that's some good thinking.

N&W had at least one Gypsum plant online, located in (get this) Plasterco, VA.

I figure I need some loads.

Hay Brothers, you listening?

As a last resort, I will use Lee's hints as a guide to make my own.

Mark

[Mark5]

It appears that plasterboard was commonly covered with a heavy plastic tarp:



http://www.sdrm.org/history/sda/spbulletin/1964.html

This appears consistent with a post by TRMWF (Mike) in the Atlas thread above:

The plastic on the drywall shipped on flats is extremely heavy duty and will protect the drywall just fine. It is too much of a pain to ship drywall in boxcars...much much easier to load/unload flat cars. Was on the N&W in the St Louis area for over 12 years and hauled a bunch in (2 or 3 cars a day 5 or 6 days a week) to a local distributor and don't recall ever seeing one that had the plastic disturbed or ripped open.



This might make it even easier to model. ;D

Mark

[Mark5]

I'm goin' crazy with the cheeze wiz, here's more info:

http://www.gypsum.org/pdf/GA-801-07.pdf

[wm3798]

I haven't built proper drywall cars yet...  This was a "proof of concept" exercise, and a means of improving scale model freight car utilization...

Lee

[cv_acr]

Here's the Jaeger (Mick?) HO load:

I'm pretty sure that's pronounced as "Yayger", not "Jagger".

[wm3798]

I recall seeing a car load of the stuff dumped all over an embankment near Eastern Ave. on the B&O. 

Lee

[Mark5]

Here's the Jaeger (Mick?) HO load:

I'm pretty sure that's pronounced as "Yayger", not "Jagger".

As in the popular with youngsters Yaygermeister?

[Denver Road Doug]

I recall seeing a car load of the stuff dumped all over an embankment near Eastern Ave. on the B&O. 

Lee

There was a high speed derailment on BNSF near my hometown a few years back and there were probably 8-10 centerbeams full of drywall that derailed.  They had bulldozed a pile of that stuff that must have been 150ft long, 30ft wide, and 20ft tall.  If it had rained we would've had our own national monument!