Good load for my new MILW gon

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Here's this gon in the same series as your car, still cruising the rails with it's funky cover in 2012: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3098246

Nice! Thanks!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

looks like you can't go wrong with steel service of some kind

Nope. But now I need to find a way to do that cover.

It never ends... lol.

[Wlal13again]

Ed could you make a reasonable cover for it from the Atlas Steel company foob gons that are out there now?

[jmarley76]

Nope. But now I need to find a way to do that cover.

It never ends... lol.

I think it could be a very reasonable argument it was sent without the cover (or it was not replaced). Hastily pulled to insure timely delivery?

Not MILW, but sans cover: http://conrailphotos.thecrhs.org/Images/CR-603862

[nkalanaga]

And, even if a car still has a cover, it may not be the original, due to wreck or other damage.  You might be able to find a picture of a car in the series with an easier-to-build cover.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Ed could you make a reasonable cover for it from the Atlas Steel company foob gons that are out there now?

That is an excellent idea. I'm not super concerned about it being perfect. Hmm. Now where to get one of the covers...

[jmarley76]

If you were up for something more involved, the Micro Trains cover would be a good place to start. The original has 3 sections with hardware for lifting & stacking on each section. It appears the Micro trains is laid out into 3 sections, it just has that roof walkway running across it instead of the lifting brackets.

[fotoflojoe]

Hauling Harley Davidson parts and MR Magazines.
<I'll show myself out.>


Kidding aside, it seems coiled steel would be a perfectly reasonable load to carry anywhere.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Maybe coiled steel INTO the Harley plant in York.

That may actually be ideal.

[fotoflojoe]

That's right! Harley has a factory in York, PA!
Well, there ya go...

Maybe coiled steel INTO the Harley plant in York.

That may actually be ideal.

[nkalanaga]

Sure, Harley should use sheet steel, and since they paint everything, it probably wouldn't be galvanized or otherwise rust-proofed, and would need to be covered during shipment.

Sounds like you have your loads, now for the cover.  The MT cover will have to be lengthened, and I'm still trying to figure out an easy way to do that, without damaging the diagonal panels.  The best I've come up with is cut it on either side of the center section and add styrene strips, to widen the flat areas.

[sirenwerks]

How about just a couple chunks of dense metal for York Barbell, an iconic York name even if it doesn't get rail shipment.  I always enjoyed seeing the spinning weight lifter as I drove along 83.

[nkalanaga]

They wouldn't have to have rail service.  That's what team tracks are for.  For modelers, it means we don't have to build every industry, as long as the load can be transferred to/from a truck.

[mu26aeh]

And when it's empty, you can load it with scrap metal for recycling, route it from York to Porters Sideling, for CSX/Chessie to deliver to Hagerstown, MD, Maryland Metals off the Security Branch